• Take responsibility for the full the stack/platform on Development, Test, Acceptance and Production environments. You automate relentlessly: Regression Testing (Functional, Performance, Security), Deployments, and Operations (Data Center failover, Backups/Restore, Security Monitoring, full stack monitoring).
• You take ownership of life cycle management of all components (O.S., Middleware, Database) as well as security (interface encryption certificates, user access, vulnerability analysis and patching)
• As part of the Platform Squad you work in an Agile/Scrum way, on the backlog prioritized by a Technical Product Owner, and you demo your features to the Capability Squads that you work with.
• Improve application monitoring using the correct and agreed event alerts
• Support in performing High Availability and Disaster Recovery tests
• Implement and work with the latest tooling with a strong focus on performance, stability and security
• Find opportunities to automate the testing of existing features, performance and security as well as the automation of deployments, monitoring, and more.
• Understand the root cause for a problem or existing gap for an enhancement and propose a viable solution for it.
• Take ownership of issues and improvements, seeing them through to completion, providing comprehensive handover as required
• You assist with technical specifications for change requests and user stories
• Analyze requirements and define their applicability inside the technical environment
• Work on technical improvements (automation, monitoring, setting up environments, Azure Dev Ops pipelines)
• Continuous deployment and delivery using Azure Dev Ops
• Liaise with the vendor about environment updates and upgrades
• Propose opportunities and innovations
• IT Risk & security controls need to be put in place and accurately documented, for this you will need to get familiar and keep up to date with the ING Information Security Management Policy.
• Our platform has a global user base of Risk Managers, Traders and Sales in Singapore, Europe and New York. You will help maintaining and developing a stable, performing and secure platform/service.
• Comply with all internal guidelines, timely completion all mandatory training and always safeguard the integrity and reputation of ING
• Occasional travel abroad (Amsterdam)

• University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Informatics or equivalent;
• 4+ years’ experience as an infrastructure professional;
• You are highly knowledgeable on Red Hat operating systems and networking. You are also showing knowledge and interest in clustered environments;
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (such as: Azure Devops, Git, Sonar, Checkmarx);
• Experience with at least one virtualization - and/or containerization technologies; VMWare, Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift;
• Ability to automate release processes and operations using e.g. Python, Shell, Ansible;
• Passion for technology, drive for continuous improvement and using your creativity to achieve this;
• Strong analytical skills, proactivity and willingness to share knowledge with others;
• Ability and agility to organize and motivate others to improve themselves;
• Very good soft skills (communicative, friendly, curious, etc).

• Nice to have:
  • Low latency infrastructural stack knowledge
  • Security and IT Risk (SOX, vulnerability management)
  • Shell scripting: Korn shell, Python, Perl
• Foreign languages: English (advanced)
• Education: Education at Bachelor/Master level with a strong analytical background, in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering or equivalent