Platform Ops Engineer AP Squad @ING Hubs Romania

Discover ING Hubs Romania

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub–a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania–then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Formerly known as ING Tech, as of 2022 weprovide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities under the name of ING Hubs Romania and operate from two locations:Bucharest and Cluj.

Withthe help of 1400 engineers, risk and operations professionals, we offer150 services in tech, non-financial risk & compliance, audit and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1100 colleagues active in Data Management,TouchPoint Channels & Integration andCore Banking.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged. Work ethics, honesty and knowledge sharing are key to our teams and we’re always looking for like-minded people.

Here’s a sneak peak of what our colleagues say about working within ING Hubs Romania: At ING, you are a safekeeper of trust

The Mission

ActivePivot is an in-memory analytical platform allowing users to slice and dice, aggregate and join the data from various sources.

Your day to day

You work within a multidisciplinary scrum team. Your primary responsibility is guaranteeing the operational stability and availability of AP platform from both operational and platform perspective.

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:

The range of tasks includes the following:

• Patching the production/acceptance/development/test environments.
• Fix incidents related to AP platform and any other third-party application which resides on platform.
• Performing High Availability and Disaster Recovery test with support from other IT teams.
• Deploying releases related to AP platform.
• Configuring and implementing Monitoring Tooling using the correct and agreed event alerts
• Implementing the security policy so that the system is secure at operating system, database and application server level
• Understanding and monitoring the entire stack’s technology on which the application runs
• Performing Incident, Problem and Change Management, including writing user stories for resolving problems related to the environments they are responsible for.

As part of a Platform/Ops  squad, work closely with the Product Owner, business stakeholders and engineers from related teams

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience:5+ years of experience in IT field
• Tech stack/ knowledge:

Mandatory:

• Good analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with the responsibility and execution for the incident, problem and change management for high available systems, as well as Risk control and configuration management
• Linux and Bash scripting.
• Sql
• Ansible

Nice to have:

• Monitoring Tools.
• Python.
• Docker.
• Financial Markets functional knowledge.
• Hands-on knowledge of Network and Data Center fields.
• Knowledge of Agile Methodology.
• Foreign languages:English (advanced)
• Education: nice to have Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in an IT related field

What’s in it for you

• Annual Performance Bonus up to two salaries
• Extra vacation days depending on the total length of working experience
• Flextime – our own way of working
• Monthly budget on Benefit platform
• Growth opportunities
• Defining a clear career path on short/ mid/ long term and identify the competencies you need to build/ develop to reach the next level: vertically – towards a managerial position or horizontally – towards an expert or architect level, locally or globally
• Internal mobility is encouraged
• Possibility to access International Short-Term Assignments or Long-Term Assignments
• Upskilling/ reskilling programs
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Annual training & certifications budget
• Pluralsight & e-learning platforms
• CSR activities: tree planting, coding lessons for teenagers etc.