Ops Engineer in Amsterdam

ING is looking for an experienced IT Ops Engineer with a drive for continuous improvement, to strengthen the Billing squad that is responsible for all billable ING events. With both API’s and (Oracle) databases, the landscape is challenging, and we are looking for one to pick up the glove!

If you want to work at a place where you are in charge of systems impacting our ING customers, where investing in the automation of provisioning and monitoring never stops, and where we are building a team of top-notch engineers that can take on the challenges of designing and developing applications of one of the largest European Banks, please read on!

Your work environment

As an Ops Engineer you are part of a squad of highly skilled engineers within the Billing area. The Ops Engineer ensures the operational stability, integrity and availability across the entire end-to-end application chain together with the squad. With the help of the Agile methodologies, you will support ING in delivering and maintaining quality products to our customers.   

Your role and key responsibilities

The Ops Engineer understands the complete ING Private Cloud stack from application to hardware. He/she understands the detailed workflow of the Billing applications, expected transactional volumes, the detailed technical behaviour of TC application servers and Oracle databases and the importance of maintaining a high security profile, safeguarding the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of ING data and information assets.

Within ING, risk management is a very important part of the work, as reporting needs to be done to multiple (internal and external) customers. He/she understands the need for these actions, and can take a leading role in performing and improving the risk journey’s for the department

An Ops Engineer actively monitors, manages, tests, deploys and operates the application noting the detailed technical behaviour and performance across all aspects of the application to proactively identify and prevent operational problems. He/she continuously improves the automation of deployment with TFS and Ansible and operations tools and activities.

As an engineer you are enthusiastic about acquiring and transferring knowledge to others. For this function we look for an engineer that can take a leading role in deciding the best solution for ING.

We are looking for

A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens continuously and invests in others to achieve common goals.

As an Engineer you will need to:

• Have strong problem solving skills to structure and improve complex situations
• Be experienced with monitoring tools like Grafana and ELK but also able to write scripts (bash/shell)
• Have knowledge of Continuous Integration and Delivery tools like: Azure DevOps, GIT and Ansible
• Affinity with data / reporting / Business Intelligence for reporting purposes
• Have experience with Linux, Oracle and Middleware like TomCat / Websphere
• Be experienced in Agile and Continuous Delivery practices
• Have experience with Cloud platforms and architecture like Microsoft Azure
• Be a strong team player and have good social and communication skills
• Be pro-active and assertive
• Have a learning attitude. Not only to master new technologies but also on the interpersonal level. You are proven to be able to ask and give feedback
• Be able to work under pressure and willing to be on stand-by outside office hours
• Have experience with working in multicultural /diverse teams
• Have an excellent written and spoken knowledge of English

Rewards & 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

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.