DevOps Engineer | Data Warehouse @ING Bank

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ING believes in a world where everyone has the right to grow and progress in their own way. We express this in our global tagline, “do your thing”. Perhaps more than in any other large company, we extend our belief in the power of autonomy to our own people. But there’s a catch. In return for great freedom, we expect people to do great things for our customers, our stakeholders, and ING at large.

To work here is to be surrounded by people who are energetic, ambitious, friendly and respectful: talented specialists who take the responsibility and autonomy to make great things happen. We stay curious, thrive on change, and seek new and better ways to make it happen. Active in Romania for 30 years, ING Bank pioneered and challenged the local banking industry. Technology and innovation are at the core of what we do, making our products relevant for our customers’ lives and businesses.

ING Bank Romania is the only bank with an organic growth within the top 10 local banks by assets, without acquisitions of client portfolios or other banks. ING Bank Romania is an universal bank with more than 1.8 million customers from three business segments: individuals (retail), SME and Mid-Corporate companies and Wholesale Banking.

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Mission

As a DevOps engineer, we seek to minimise the number of manual steps. If the first thing that comes to mind when performing a tedious, repetitive task is to write a script for it, you're in the same head-space as us. The DevOps team defines procedures, testing requirements and pipelines, automatic deployments etc.

Maintenance is part of our routine. We have to ensure that machines are up-to-date, security holes are patched, our processes are compliant with the latest requirements in the field, etc. While most of this is automated, our job is to keep on top of it.

We must keep in mind that our systems are constantly growing in size. There's always more data to be processed, and we need it done faster and more often. You will be responsible for analysing these processing patterns and ensuring that the provisioned hardware is sufficient. We use different tools to achieve this and you've likely heard of Grafana already.

Sometimes automation fails and it is our job to track down the cause of the problem. You will be responsible for getting the system back up and running, as well as identifying what caused the issue and ideally fixing it so it does not happen again. Without going into too many details, this could be a simple configuration change or be as involved as doing a multi-team effort to optimise things on the critical path.

Your day-to-day

You will be part of a young, dynamic team of individuals with many different skills and backgrounds. As a DevOps engineer, your days will never be boring. Our responsibilities span many different areas and in the course of a few weeks you may be involved in multiple activities.

You will learn many new tools as part of your job and we don't expect you to know all of them before you join.

Here is a brief overview of the main ones that we use as part of our day-to-day job:

• Git as our versioning control system.
• Grafana is our tool of choice for monitoring infra · UAC - Universal Automation Center for scheduling ETL jobs on our Data Warehouse and automating OS patching
• ETL, a critical part of any data warehouse, is handled via IBM Datastage.
• Confluence stores all our documentation
• We embrace Agile methodology and use Azure Boards to plan and track our work
• The main distro we use is Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (RHEL), but we also have to dive into Windows Server land
• Big data requires big databases, and Oracle Database is our technology of choice
• We use ING Private Cloud (IPC) platform to order, build and manage our infra.

What you bring to the team

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and/or Computer Science, or equivalent industry experience;
• Experience with bash scripting and administering Linux systems;
• Be organised, focused, able to work under pressure responding to critical incidents calmly.
• Understand that most projects have deadlines and are thus able to work towards meeting them effectively.
• Be a team player and understand that the whole is more than just the sum of its parts. At ING we work together towards a common goal.
• Learn from your mistakes and be proactive in growing personally and professionally. The IT landscape is constantly changing, so be prepared to adapt.

Nice to have

• Azure Devops or any other CI/CD pipelining tool, familiarity with Ansible
• Experience as a Developer, writing production code (regardless of language / technology / framework). The more you know how developers think, the better you can assist them from a DevOps position. We have some Python code to maintain
• SQL knowledge
• Creating ETL jobs in DataStage is hard! Debugging them is even more challenging. If you've ever worked with DataStage or any related components from the InfoSphere Information Server suite, we'd love to hear from you.

What we offer

• Impactful work in a fun and collaborative environment;
• Open-concept offices designed for both team work and relaxation;
• Corporate events and social gatherings;
• Hybrid way of working with flexible working schedule and short week options;
• Monthly budget on Benefit platform;
• Extra annual leave days depending on the total length of working experience;
• Growth opportunities through upskilling/ reskilling programs and a variety of learning and development platforms: ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, as well as through trainings and certifications;
• Possibility to access Internal roles, International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments;
• Context to make an impact through Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility projects.

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