VMWare DevOps Engineer

You’ll be working within Tech/Infra as a Software Developer, with a specific focus on Golang.  At ING, the purpose of Tech/Infra is to deliver reliable and cost-competitive IT Infrastructure services that can be consumed on-demand via a self-service portal and APIs. You’ll be working as a core member of a multi-disciplinary squad with end-to-end responsibility of the software development of the API stack.  Your focus will be on delivering high quality, corporate usable code that allows others to consume your code via API’s.

Day with GTDCN

After getting your first cup of coffee, either at the office or at home, you start your computer and logon to the network. You see that one of the periodic unit tests that you wrote suddenly failed. You instantly jump on it and start troubleshooting to see what went wrong. Just after you committed the fix to Azure DevOps, you have the standup with the rest of your Squad to see verify the status of your stories and mention what you did to solve the sudden error.

Next to the standups, you have several sessions with people from other groups within ING to get the ideas and facilities clear to write an easy to use and portable API in the Golang language. You will use libraries from other teams and create your own to be used by other teams.

In the afternoon you planned to work on your user stories and make sure that you deliver your commitments in this sprint. You write, test and validate your code using industry standards and make sure your code adheres to internal and industry standards. You are not shy in creating new standards internally if needed and document what you wrote in a clear and readable fashion.

Of course, since you work at a large financial institute, you make sure your code is safe, and you wrote tests to make sure it is and remains compliant with banking requirements. In the spare moments when writing software, you consider what the topic for your next demo would be and how to incorporate feedback from the last demo you gave.

If you recognize yourself in such a potential day, then we are looking for you!

You will work in the tribe GTDCN which stands for Global Tribe Datacenter and Networks and is part of the Tech/Infra department, one of the key tribes that facilitates and hosts the compute infrastructure for ING’s Private Cloud environment. Together with your colleague’s you are responsible for that infrastructure and making sure it’s secure, available and compliant all the time. The business depends on you.

To be considered for this position you should be demonstratable knowledgeable in the Golang language. You can read and parse VB and ASP.Net code and ideally have affinity with Ansible/Python or PowerShell.

It would be a large pre if you also have experience or affinity with Virtualization products like VMware, where you will write the API code for.

Competencies - Skills

• Demonstrable expertise with the Golang programming language.

• Azure DevOps (Git, Pipelines, Testing, Key vaults)

• Demonstratable experience with Kubernetes and Helm Charts

• Experience in a large corporate environment

• Experience with building resilient software in a high secure environment

• Have security as a natural mindset

• Affinity with VMware

• Affinity with PowerShell

• Affinity with Ansible

• Working-level knowledge of Agile and DevOps practices

Competencies - Behaviours

• Mindset of openness and willingness to try new ways of working and technologies

• Energetic, enthusiastic, & eager to learn and share

• End-to-end ownership mindset

• Independent and autonomous in completing tasks

• Reflects upon behaviours and performance to proactively identify improvement areas

• Strong problem solver to structure and improve complex situations

Your education and background

• Experience from working in high performing (Agile) IT teams

• Certification and/or proven proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages, like Golang, Java, PowerShell and Ansible.

• Excellent command of spoken and written English, Dutch also preferable

Think Forward! Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We are an industry recognized strong brand with positive recognition from customers in many countries, strong financial position, omni-channel distribution strategy and international network. If you want to work at a place with lots of freedom to innovate, where we believe that you can live by the Agile manifesto without jeopardizing the necessary continuity, compliance and QA measures, where we are committed to deliver stable and secure services to end users, and where we have a getting-things done mentality, please read on! 

Job description 

As a GCP Platform Engineer, you will help develop the data-driven products that the Analytics Engineering (AE) organization builds. Within the AE organization, we use agile, lean and design thinking methodologies to launch new initiatives within or outside of ING. 

ING is now building its Data Analytics Platform in Google Cloud! It is to help ING to be even more data driven. This is a joined effort between ING units, and you are going to be part of a distributed multi-national and multi-cultural team. There is plenty of work and fun down this road. 

Your passion is to work with the latest and greatest technologies that make working with large amounts of data easy, you are proactive in keeping yourself up to date and trying everything out. You also enjoy laying the architectural foundations for the things you are AE e working on while aligning the business problem with the right technology. You combine both thinking of the future and a hands-on, right-now attitude. You can identify on which fronts a team can grow and will help them get there. You will work in a team with highly skilled people and enjoy a creative atmosphere where trying things out is encouraged. 

Your work environment 

The Analytics Engineering organization is composed of around 110 people that have the mission to make ING data driven. We do this by combining UX research and engineering with data science to deliver high-value solutions and products for our organization. We work in a fun and creative environment, and we are dedicated to bringing out the best in both each other and our projects. We have offices in Amsterdam (head office), London, Warsaw, Katowice, and Bucharest. 

We are looking for you if: 

• 5+ years of experience/knowledge with GCP  

• You have built platforms on top of GCP using managed services like Cloud Run, Vertex AI, GKE,  BigQuery and Dataproc or similar 

• You have an Infrastructure as Code mindset (Our tech stack: Terraform with Azure DevOps pipelines), 

• Programming skills (Python & Golang preferred) 

• You have hands-on experience with monitoring, logging and alerting. 

• You can clearly express ideas, facts and opinions. Experience elaborating complex ideas as part of design pages, which makes you great to collaborate with. 

• Understanding of networking concepts, including VPC, DNS, load balancing, and firewalls. 

 
You'll get extra points for: 

• You have knowledge in secure authentication and encrypted workloads (OIDC, KMS, client/server SSL/TLS and etc)  

• Contribution to Open-Source projects is an advantage.  

• Experience with Kubernetes, preferably on Google Cloud (GKE) 

• Automate everything mindset 

 
Additional skills: 

• Self-improvement and efficiency 

• Goal oriented and persistent 

 
Your responsibilities: 

• Building a platform and supporting its tenants 

• Data analytics platform components maintenance 

• Architecture development and experiments 

• Preparing cloud-ready and IaC-based solutions 

• Managing monitoring and alerting for the platform 

Rewards and benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https://www.ing.jobs/netherlands/Why-ING/benefits.htm

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience

• 24-27 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.