Operations Engineer

The ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform consists of multiple components that enable real-time and batch calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. XVA, PFE, Value at Risk, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining, pre-deal derivatives Pricing) which are driven by new banking regulations as well as advanced Risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). We seek an enthusiastic, passionate, solution-focused, experienced Operations Engineer for our in-house developed Pricing & Risk Component. With your passion for Financial Markets and engineering skills, you ensure and support a stable, secure and performing critical Financial Markets pricing and risk application.

The team:

This platform is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia, Europe and Americas, with 7-9 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest and Singapore), cooperating to evolve it towards target ING Financial Markets IT vision.

We provide a fast, easy, secure and reliable Data, Analysis and Reporting Environment, based largely on the GCP technology in the public cloud. The purpose of this asset is to provide one system for FO (Front Office) and Risk Management business users to be used for both Intraday and End Of Day pricing, Risk Management and Position Management.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged. Work ethics, honesty and knowledge sharing are key to our teams and we’re always looking for like-minded people.

Roles & Responsibilities :

Even if you’ll start your day from the comfort of your home or drink your morning coffee in our office’s garden, your day will be quite similar when comes to tasks. Here are your daily responsibilities:

• As a Senior Ops Engineer, you contribute and are responsible for handling incident management, change management and root cause analysis in case of unavailability and data quality issues.
• You monitor, maintain and trouble shoot data pipelines.
• Through an Agile/Scrum setup you aim to bring new code live, deploy and release on regular basis.
• You oversee CI/CD using Azure DevOps
• You actively own, develop, enhance and maintain Monitoring & Alerting of production systems.

How to Succeed:

• Experience: 5+ years of engineering experience.
• IT Ops/Support experience, including Functional support to end users (such as Trades, Risk Managers, Collateral Managers) combined with analytical skills to identify root causes in workflow incidents (data, technical, functional).
• Experience in maintaining and troubleshooting data pipelines.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD (eg. Azure DevOps) and documentation tools.
• Familiarity with scripting languages in the likes of shell, Python or similar.
• Experience with Monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent).
• Advanced SQL knowledge

Nice to have:

• Knowledge of Java language
• Hands on experience with Cloud providers is a strong plus.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (eg. Terraform).
• Experience with Kafka.
• Experience with BigQuery and dbt is a strong plus.
• Experience with Airflow.
• Data governance, Data lineage, Data Catalogue (Metadata).

Foreign languages: English (advanced)

Education: A University degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering or equivalent.

Who should apply?

At ING, we promote diversity not just because it is the right thing to do, but because it’s essential for delivering on our strategy. To stay a step ahead we need teams with a healthy mix of contrasting perspectives and backgrounds as they are more creative, faster to adapt and more inventive with their solutions. We strive to hire a workforce as diverse as the communities in which we operate, and we will consider every application, regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age.

If you are an experienced OPS Engineer with a proven track record of managing various Windows based platforms and applications simultaneously, automate and maintain end to end ecosystems, we would love to hear from you!

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:

• 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 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.