Operation Engineer – API Gateway @ING Hubs Romania

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ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies. Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca. 

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1800 colleagues active in Data and Analytics Tech, Tech Foundation and Channels, Retail Core Banking and Architecture, and Global Products and Technology Services. 

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.  

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work. We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

The Mission

We are currently looking for an operations engineer in Romania, for our API Gateway Squad.

The products our team delivers are not only the authentication proxy for all internet channels in the Netherlands and Belgium, but also various authentication components.

Furthermore, we deliver security components, which are reused in the ING developer frameworks to verify users, extract user information and provide secure API to API communication.

The Touchpoint Architecture Platform uses an API Gateway for 'external' client applications to access the platform API's.

API Security defines how the APIs of the Touchpoint Architecture are protected and can communicate between each other in a secure and scalable way.

Your Day to Day:

• In depth risk analysis. Keep all internal controls in check, by constantly updating documentation related to infrastructure connection schemes, SLA-s, MTTR, secure code analysis, vulnerability patching and more;
• Application capacity and performance management. Support changes in capacity by automating the testing to meet the preferable system performance level;
• Configuration Management. Automate the application of configuration states. Deploy new modules, upgrade, and fix to the production environment. Make modules production-ready by moving them to libraries, completing forms, following procedures, completing version control documents, etc;
• Automation. Focus on testing automation and processes automation to prevent human error and increase speed and traceability;
• Integration, security testing and access. Track, monitor and analyze defects to mitigate the impact on the project release and ensure that the system is deployed to meet the level of reliability set by the customer;
• Monitoring tooling and reliability. Track, monitor and analyze defects to mitigate the impact on the project release and ensure that the system is deployed to meet the level of reliability set by the customer;
• Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment. Be responsible for independently designing, coding, reviewing, and testing of code/scripts and pipeline for testing automation with different tools/technologies and complexity;
• Flow to Ready and integration. Be able to refine and detail user stories that are defined. Be able to work together with other DevOps teams and plan work in a way tasks can be executed efficiently. Actively present in demo sessions. Understand the impact of user stories on his/her work.

What we are looking for

• University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics or equivalent through experience;
• 5+ years experience as an operations/infrastructure professional;
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English and Romanian;
• You are highly knowledgeable on Red Hat operating systems and networking;
• You are also showing knowledge and interest in clustered environments;
• Knowledge about TLS, Crypto, Oauth, WAF and SAML;
• A good understanding of the most common security threats (OWASP);
• Experience working in an Agile environment, using Agile methodologies and related tools (Jira, Confluence);
• Ability to automate processes and operations using e.g. Python, Shell, Ansible;
• Familiar with continuous integration & continuous delivery principles and tools (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, Azure DevOps);
• Nice to have cloud experience;
• Familiar with the DevOps concept;
• Knowledgeable of security and threath analysis best practices.

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