Software Reliability Engineer

As a Site Reliability Engineer at ING you will be able to influence the architecture and infrastructure design and operations of a global data analytics platform that enables the organization to use data in an efficient and secure manner. This involves the building and maintaining components that allows the consumers of the platform perform data exploration, experimentation and model deployment. 

The team

A day in the life of a Site Reliability Engineer 

As a Site Reliability Engineer you are a very crucial part of the team. Without your work, the platform is stagnant. You build and maintain infrastructure of the platform that enables the users to build scalable pipelines, deploy models in production, perform data discovery and metadata management. You are the one that is always finding new and innovative ways to improve storage performance, resource management for data processing frameworks. CEO’s rely on you to ensure that the entire organization has a secure and scalable data platform at their disposal. Other products are praising you for all the time you save that would have been required to build and maintain a secure infrastructure to host and process data applications. 

What department? 

ING Analytics Wholesale Banking team is a team of 130 people (and growing rapidly) that has the mission to make Banking in ING data driven. We do this by combining Big Data technology with Data Science to deliver high value solutions and products for our organization. We work in a fun and creative environment and we’re dedicated to bringing out the best in both each other and our projects. 

Roles and responsibilities

Your passion is to work with the latest and greatest open source technologies required to build and maintain a high quality infrastructure that enables analytics products. You will work as an engineer on different projects within the ING Analytics Wholesale Banking team. With this team, you will be building new capabilities for ING Analytics on the Site Reliability Engineering part. You will help to launch new initiatives within ING and support teams and their projects within ING. At ING Analytics we always work with agile techniques. 

• As part of the SRE team, design, implement and improve our infrastructure (on premise and in the cloud, Google Cloud Platform). You’re passionate about balancing scale and performance with a pragmatic approach and devising highly automated solutions to guarantee the encouraged level of reliability, performance and quality in multiple environments 

• Closely work with other dev engineers to expand existing large-scale systems or implementing new ones to support evolving analytical products 

• Deliver high-quality code and solutions, alongside Dev Engineers, Data Engineers, to improve delivery, fault-tolerance and seamlessly integrate with the production platform running our customer-facing products 

• Focus on delivering fully automated, tested and self-healing systems. Engage in capacity planning and explore solutions to increase the efficiency of the platform using the opportunities of the open source technologies 

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• Hands-on experience in delivering optimized code and infrastructure, preferably using open-source technologies. 

• Programming in scripting languages, e.g. Python and Bash 

• Programming in a statically typed language, e.g. JVM (Java/Scala/Kotlin), Golang 

• Containerization - orchestration/deployment and provisioning automation tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift, CI/CD 

• Security, authentication and authorisation (LDAP / Kerberos / PAM / IAM) and networking. 

• Experience with Implementing continuous delivery and deployment solutions (Gitlab, Azure DevOps) 

• Experience working with distributed storage e.g. Ceph, AWS S3, GFS. 

Nice to have the following skills: 

• Experience in working on cloud/hybrid solutions 

• Experience in designing, building, scaling and monitoring solutions using Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus. 

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.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.