Senior Pega DevOps Engineer in Amsterdam

Senior Pega DevOps Engineer

The opportunity
ING is looking for a passionate Senior Pega DevOps Engineer

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 'no nonsense' getting-things done mentality, please read on!

The team

We create applications in the Business Lending domain. We are tackling fundamental, high impact, problems in the financial services industry. We are passionate about protecting both our customers and our society, delivering products that make ING a safer and more compliant bank.

Roles and responsibilities

As a Senior Pega DevOps Engineer, you are responsible to create, maintain smooth and efficient onboarding and other processes relating to Business Lending related processes.

In your work environment, you will work in an agile squad together with DevOps engineers, Business specialists and Stakeholders.

You squad is part of the Business Lending Tribe (to focus on business delivery), and you’ll be part of a Pega Chapter (to focus on your engineer craftmanship). Agile/Scrum is our way of working, focusing on iterative and incremental software development in small, multi-disciplinary teams.

In this context, squad’s engineers should be able to perform a wide variety of tasks. Together with your squad you are responsible for the end-to-end software and feature delivery of a stable and fit-for-purpose Pega application. It means Epic ,Feature analysis, Development, Configuration, Testing and Support Operations in 24*7 manner. Additionally, to strengthen our software delivery, you will suggest and contribute to Continuous Delivery initiatives and enthusiastically automate everything: deployment, functional/technical/performance testing, system health checks, and anything else that is still done manually.

In details your main tasks will be:

• Participate in Design Review

  • Participate in Design sessions across teams

• Take part to User Story refinement

  • Analyzes requirements and request modification or enrich it when needed

  • Participate on Design, testing and delivery of the solution

• Implement qualitative application

  • Build application as close as possible to Pega out-of-the-box features

  • Create or modify Unit Tests when necessary along the implementation of new functionalities

  • Participate to manual, automation, sanity testing activities when required

  • Pro-actively monitor application quality

  • Ensure that logs do not display unwanted messages and errors

  • Participate to the Peer Review process

  • Feel and Take responsibility in the work committed and deliver accordingly with high quality

  • Fix incident and problems when necessary with proper root cause analysis and show expertise, dynamics in structural fixes

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.

• You like to deliver on promises while keeping good communication lines with clients and partners

• You have a “Can do” mentality, flexibility and ability to take ownership and responsibility

• You have a collaborative approach to solving problems while bringing positive energy to the team

• You are relentlessly learning and thinking about new solutions

• You have experience working in agile teams (SCRUM or Kanban or XP)

• You are multi skilled: experience with design, building, stubbing, testing, documenting, deployment

• You believe and have a good collaboration mindset and have experience in working in large programs

• You have great English communication skills, verbal as well as written

• You are able to work under pressure when required, no 9-5 mentality

• You have strong technical skills:

  • At least 8 years of experience on Pega

  • Pega SSA certification is minimum, LSA certification is a plus

  • Basic Java knowledge

  • You have knowledge in any Stub framework

  • You have knowledge about CI/CD (Jenkins, Azure DevOps )

  • You know how to work with an automation tool (e.g. Ansible, Selenium, Cucumber)

  • You are familiar with Monitoring solutions (Kibana, Grafana, PDC)

  • Test Automation Framework knowledge for defining and running automated tests or appetite towards it to learn is mandatory

  • Knowledge in Test Driven Development/ Behavior driven development

• You have Soft skills, Mindset      :

  • Diplomacy and good communication

  • Proactive attitude, always on the look-out for improving your and our way of working

  • You are easy to get along with and really enjoy collaborating with others.

  • You think in terms of solutions by analyzing facts and information instead of looking for excuses

  • Analysis capabilities and testing abilities

Rewards & benefits

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

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster

Questions?

Contact  Pierre-Julien Dechassat in our Tech recruitment team for more information about this role. Want to apply directly? Please upload your CV and motivation letter by clicking the “Apply” button.

About us

With 57,000 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.