IT Ops Engineer in Platform Engineering in Amsterdam

Operations Engineer in Platform Engineering chapter in Cash & Liquidity Management tribe

In in the area of Cash management there is an opening for an Operations engineer who can work in a multidisciplinary team and has the responsibility for guaranteeing the operational stability and availability of the applications in domain.

Job description

You are a driven IT specialist with excellent analytical skills. You are ambitious with what you want you and your DevOps team to achieve, and you bring positive energy to the team. You have very good communication skills. You feel a personal responsibility for the quality of your application and its reliability, and you work together with your colleagues across your domain and from others, including the infrastructure colleagues, to continuously improve how you work, the applications you support, and ING’s business agility. You recognize problems and work to solve them by yourself and with other ING colleagues. You have a 24x7 mind-set, and are willing to participate in a standby shift, knowing that ING operates a 24x7 business for its customers.

 Your work environment

The challenging environment for the Ops engineer is focused around an Agile way of working; dynamic environment with lots of change and highly visible applications that deliver services towards the whole group. Also working with external vendors. Within this position will need to have knowledge of message and file based transfers and able to technically lead other developers / operations staff to deliver the priorities, set by the product owner.

The Ops Engineer’s primary responsibility is to ensure the operational stability, resilience, integrity, and availability of the application. You will proactively identify application and system related problems. You will assume leadership of your DevOps team when an Incident occurs and your application has an outage or is part of a Major Incident that affects the operation of your application.

Your profile

In this role you will be part of a squad responsible for delivering business value. All members of the Squad are multi-skilled with their primary and secondary responsibilities and corresponding skill set. As Ops Engineer – Platform Engineering your primary responsibilities are broadly classified below. However, you are also expected to learn and demonstrate new skills.

• Specifying, designing and performing resilience and availability tests (including High Availability and Disaster Recovery Tests);
• Deploying and running the application on ING environments and experience of working with industry leading CD/CI tools;
• Specifying, designing, testing and deployment of system runtime and rollback scripts (e.g. stop / start / purge / backup);
• Experience in RHEL, shell scripting, crontab jobs and python for automation of regular jobs;
• Configuring and implementing system and application monitoring using Prometheus, Zabbix or other industry standard tools;
• Oracle DB and SQL scripts and basic DBA activities;
• Implementing the security policy so that the system is secure at operating system, database and application level;
• Working with RHEL and WAS based full stack technology where applications are hosted;
• Cloud infrastructure and setting up of applications into private cloud based on AWS and Azure;
• Containerization approach for application deployment and experienced with Ansible and Docker
• Manage large and complex infrastructure and application migrations
• Perform Incident, Problem and Change Management activities, including writing user stories for resolving problems;

Furthermore, you adhere to the ING values and it is evident for you that your behaviour is fully aligned with these values. You are also prepared to take the Banker's Oath. For more information, please visit

What we offer

• 40 hours
• Market rate