Discover ING Hubs Romania

ING Hubs Romania is one of ING’s global capability hubs focused on tech, data and risk. Based in Bucharest, we design and deliver digital products to make banking easier for customers everywhere.

We offer 180 services in tech, data and analytics, non-financial risk and compliance to ING units worldwide with the help of over 2,300 𝐡𝐢𝐠𝐡-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐠engineers and data experts to risk specialists, product and operations professionals, working across key domains:

• Tech Foundation and Channels
• Core Banking and Architecture
• Data and Analytics
• Global Products and Technology Services
• Payment and Settlement Services
• Risk Services
• Product and Operations

The Mission

As a GCP Platform Cognos Engineer, you will contribute to building and operating the next generation of our analytics platform, with a particular focus on running IBM Cognos Analytics in a containerized environment on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

ING is expanding and modernizing its Data Analytics Platform in Google Cloud. As part of this journey, we are modernizing our existing Cognos landscape and moving towards a scalable, automated and cloud-native platform built on GCP and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Your day to day

You will work at the intersection of analytics, cloud infrastructure and platform engineering. Your responsibility goes beyond simply running Cognos: you will help build the platform around it, automate its deployment and operations, and integrate it securely into ING's wider cloud ecosystem.

You enjoy working with modern technologies and are proactive in keeping your knowledge up to date. You are equally comfortable discussing platform architecture and getting hands-on with Kubernetes, pipelines, Terraform or troubleshooting a containerized workload.

You combine long-term architectural thinking with a practical, hands-on attitude. Automation, reliability, security and maintainability are fundamental parts of how you approach engineering.

The Analytics Engineering organization has the mission to make ING more data driven. We combine engineering, analytics, UX and data science to deliver valuable solutions and platforms for our organization.

You will be part of an international and multicultural environment, collaborating with engineers and stakeholders across multiple ING locations.

The team encourages experimentation, engineering ownership, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Your responsibilities:

• Build and operate IBM Cognos Analytics as a containerized platform on GCP.
• Deploy and maintain Cognos workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• Engineer the infrastructure required to support Cognos and its surrounding platform components.
• Create and maintain Terraform-based Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop and maintain Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and platform deployments.
• Automate Cognos installation, configuration, deployment and lifecycle-management activities wherever possible.
• Support the modernization and migration of existing Cognos environments towards the new GCP-based platform.
• Operate the platform after deployment and support its users and tenants.
• Manage monitoring, logging and alerting for Cognos and the underlying platform.
• Troubleshoot issues across the application, container, Kubernetes and GCP infrastructure layers.
• Implement and maintain secure authentication, authorization and communication between platform components.
• Contribute to platform architecture, technical designs and engineering experiments.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, maintainability and security.
• Eliminate operational toil by automating repetitive activities with code.
• Create technical documentation, operational procedures and reusable engineering patterns.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to integrate Cognos with the wider ING data and cloud ecosystem.

What you’ll bring to the team

• You have hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and building or operating platforms in a public-cloud environment.
• You have strong knowledge of Kubernetes, preferably Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• You understand container technologies and have experience deploying and operating containerized applications.
• You have an Infrastructure as Code mindset, preferably using Terraform.
• You have hands-on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
• You understand automated infrastructure and application deployment practices.
• You have experience with relevant managed GCP services such as GKE, GCS, BigQuery and Cloud Logging/Monitoring.
• You have hands-on experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and troubleshooting distributed applications.
• You have knowledge of secure authentication and encrypted workloads, including technologies and concepts such as OIDC, IAM, KMS and SSL/TLS.
• You are comfortable scripting and automating operational activities. Python and Bash experience is an advantage.
• You understand networking concepts relevant to cloud and Kubernetes environments.
• You are willing to continuously learn and improve both yourself and the platform.
• You can clearly communicate ideas, technical decisions and architectural concepts, including documenting complex solutions and collaborating with engineers across multiple teams.
• Experience migrating enterprise applications from on-premises infrastructure to GCP.
• Strong hands-on experience with GKE.
• Experience designing or operating highly available Kubernetes-based platforms.
• Experience with Terraform modules and Azure DevOps YAML pipelines.
• Experience with container registries, image lifecycle management and deployment automation.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, ingress, load balancing, DNS and certificate management.
• Experience with platform observability and operational dashboards.
• Experience optimizing cloud infrastructure for performance, reliability and cost.
• An automate everything mindset.

Additional skills

• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Self-starting and proactive attitude.
• Goal-oriented and persistent.
• Comfortable working in an international, distributed engineering environment.
• Able to balance platform stability with continuous improvement.
• Willing to challenge existing solutions and propose better ways of working.
• Strong sense of ownership for the services and platforms you operate.

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

Some of the most appreciated benefits that you’re most likely to love*

• our hybrid way of working
• our wellbeing mindset and programmes
• collaborative people and teams.

* according to colleagues’ input expressed in yearly Organisational Health Index surveys.

In practice, these mean:

• structured hybrid (work from both home and office)
• 30 days abroad/year
• the option of a 4-day work week
• flexible hours: start between 7:30 and 10:30 am
• onsite massage sessions
• therapist helpline and individual psychotherapy sessions
• internal knowledge sharing events, meetups and demo days
• opportunities to learn and act on climate resilience, green tech, food waste and other sustainability topics.
• volunteering opportunities advancing education and social causes, incl. mentoring teens, fundraising, onsite blood drives, running marathons to support reforestation.

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