DevOps Engineer | Data Lake - Core Team @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

Data is a game-changer. It’s all around us. Implementing a uniform approach as to how we manage data throughout the bank allows us to enhance the customer experience, lower IT operational costs, and swiftly and correctly report to external regulators. 

You will be responsible for the smooth functioning of the infrastructure and operational environments that support application/solution developing and deployment, including the network infrastructure, server and software management. You will also be responsible for development of new tools or functionalities for system improvement.

Your day to day

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:

Contributing to design, implementation, and lifecycle management of Data Lake Platform by:

- Take initiative and propose and implement automation improvements for existing processes with the goal of reducing the repetitive work and making the system more reliable
- Extend the existing CI/CD  AzureDevops Pipelines  
- The work is organized using Agile principles
- Optimization & automation of workflows and activities
- Help tune performance and ensure high availability of services
Integrating and/or engineering innovative technologies. Configure / add new services as necessary
- Preventive maintenance activities (Monitor system performance and utilization, data transfer, backup, etc.)
- Deployment of the new changes through different environments Dev, Test, Acceptance, Production
- Configuration and installation of IBM Datastage application on Linux and maintenance of Citrix Workspace 
- Perform periodic performance checks to support capacity and performance planning, system availability.

- Taking a look and administering Oracle databases.

Tools used in your day-by-day activities:

OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
CI/CD: AzureDevops  Pipelines;  
Scripting : Ansible, Bash , Python
Monitoring: Kibana, Grafana & Prometheus for server and infrastructure

DB: Oracle databases
ING Private Cloud Solution

What you’ll bring to the team

Experience: 
Tech stack/ knowledge: 
Mandatory:
- Experience administering Linux systems ( 3+ years) 

- Experience with Ansible playbooks

- Experience with CI/ CD

- Experience with shell scripting

- SQL knowledge

 - Understanding of Agile - Scrum way of working

Nice to have: 
- Experience with InfoSphere Information Server suite, WebSphere (installation, configuration, operations), DataStage
- Experience with Python

- DBA Experience or willingness to learn DBA and Oracle database concepts
- Azure DevOps Pipelines or equivalent CI/CD pipelines ( Jenkins, GitLab etc)
- Experience working with DataStage or other InfoSphere Information Server suite 

Foreign languages: English (advanced)

Education: nice to have Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in an IT related field 

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