Senior DevOps Engineer - IPA Hedge Accounting

Discover ING Hubs Romania

ING Hubs Romania offers 130 services in software development, data management, non-financial risk & compliance, audit, and retail operations to 24 ING units worldwide, with the help of over 1700 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals.

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub – a distinct entity from ING Bank Romania – then steadily expanded our range to include more services and competencies.

Now we provide borderless services with bank-wide capabilities and operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.

Our tech capabilities remain the core of our business, with more than 1500 colleagues active in Data Management, Touchpoint Channels & Integration, Core Banking, and Global Products.

We enjoy a flexible way of working and a highly collaborative environment, where fair and constructive feedback is encouraged.

For us, impact isn't a perk. It's the driver of our work.

We are guided and rewarded by a shared desire to make the world a better place, one innovative solution at a time. Our colleagues make it their job to do impactful things and they love doing it in good company. Do you?

The Mission

Financial Markets (FM) is the Bank’s gateway to the professional markets around the world. Our primary function is to service the needs of ING’s clients with products, services and guidance. FM aims to be a significant player in our market leader and challenger markets, with an additional presence in all the major international markets and specialist expertise in selected emerging markets and products.

Within FM, in Competitive Pricing area, we have ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform, which 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). This platform is in the heart of the IT landscape for our global dealing rooms and risk managers in Asia, Europe and Americas, with aprox. 30 scrum teams spread across 4 locations (Amsterdam, Brussels, Bucharest and Singapore), cooperating to evolve it towards target ING Financial Markets IT vision.

Your day to day

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. As a Senior DevOps you will:

• Work with Oracle as a database
• Work with Kafka for communication via events
• Work with gRPC and REST services in a Big Data ecosystem;
• Apply Domain Driven Design and Test Driven Design principles in your day to day development
• Have a performance mindset in terms of being familiar with API performance benchmarking, garbage collection fine tuning, application profiling, processing and transferring large data sets, facilitating real time results, designing features in a scalable architecture;
• Work with streaming technologies such as JMS for service orchestration or for data sourcing purposes;
• Implement and work with the latest tooling with a strong focus on performance, stability and security
• Find opportunities to automate the testing of existing features, performance, and security as well as the automation of deployments, monitoring, and more. This is a key responsibility of the Operations Engineers.
• Continuous deployment and delivery using Azure DevOps
• Collaborate with the other Dev and Ops engineers to define/refine/improve the technical architecture of the application
• Use a Linux deployment environment.

What you’ll bring to the team

• Experience:
  • 5+ years of software engineering / operations experience
• Skills/knowledge:
  • A good understanding of trade products related to derivates as well as securities;
  • Advanced knowledge on CI/CD and experience with Git, Python, Ansible, Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 or 8), Shell scripting
  • Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools such as Confluence, JIRA, Fortify, Gitlab, Jenkins, Maven;
  • Familiarity with Grafana and tools for alerting like Prometheus
  • Good understanding of the ELK Stack and how to interact with it
  • Experience or affinity with IT Security concepts;
  • Experience in SQL and relational modeling;
  • Good communication skills, in English and Romanian;
  • Strong analytical skills, proactivity and willingness to share knowledge with others;
  • End-to-end ownership mindset: Independent and autonomous in completing tasks, taking responsibilities whenever needed as always striving for consumer value;
  • A customer focus, with the mindset to find and resolve root causes of incidents to structurally improve the customer experience.
  • A good team player, cross functional, enjoys interacting with people of all levels in a multicultural environment
  • Foreign languages: English (excellent level)
  • Education: University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering or equivalent