• Monitor, support and run the IPA service consisting of multiple components such as the in-memory Trade Store (Java based, Apache Ignite, Linux technologies, distributed systems architecture) as well as the Calculation/Risk Engine, the Static Data Manager, the workflow Orchestrator and the Post Processing application and soxf on.
• Take care of incident management, and root cause analysis in case of unavailability and data quality issues. You communicate directly with users (Traders, Credit/Market Risk Managers) on this from Amsterdam, London, Brussels, New York and Singapore.
• 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. This is a key responsibility of the Operations Engineers.
• 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.
• Continuous deployment and delivery using Azure Dev Ops
• Through Agile/Scrum, collaborate with the other Ops engineers to bring live new sprint releases every 2-4 weeks to Acceptance and Production.

• Mandatory:
  • Advanced knowledge on CI/CD and experience with Git, Python, Ansible, Shell scripting and working experience with JVM based applications
  • Strong Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 or 8) skills.
  • Experience with Azure Dev Ops or similar tools such as Jenkins
  • Familiarity with Grafana and tools for alerting like Prometheus
  • Good understanding of the ELK Stack and how to interact with it
  • Familiarity with tools such as Confluence, Service Now, Checkmarx
  • Experience or affinity with IT Risk & Security concepts
  • IT Operations/Support experience, including Functional support to end users (such as Traders, Risk Managers, Collateral Managers but could be in another domain/field) combined with analytical skills to identify root causes in workflows incidents (data, technical, functional).
  • A customer focus, with the mindset to find and resolve root causes of incidents to structurally improve the customer experience.
  • A good team player, cross functional, enjoys interacting with people of all levels in a multicultural environment
  • Proactive and attentive to other’s needs

• Nice to have:
  • Familiarity with Oracle 12c/19c with PL/SQL
  • Familiarity with in-memory caching tools such as Apache Ignite (Grid Gain) or Redis
  • Familiarity with Docker and orchestration for it like Kubernetes or Openshift
  • Good linux networking skills