DevOps Engineer Broadway - Trading Platforms

ING Bank Romania is part of ING Group, a global international financial institution, which offers banking services to over 38.4 million individual customers, companies or institutions in over 40 countries.
Founded in 1994, ING Bank Romania is the fourth bank in the top 10 local banks, according to assets, and the only bank with organic growth, without acquisitions of customer portfolios or other banks. ING Bank Romania is a universal bank with over 1.7 million customers in three business segments: individuals (retail), SMEs and Mid-Corporate companies and Wholesale Banking.
ING's mission is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business.

Who we are looking for?

We are looking for passionate IT specialists who love to prevent and solve technical problems regarding stability, capacity, and performance of the system. Important characteristics: 

• Deliver on promises while keeping good communication lines with clients and partners

• “Can do" mentality, flexibility and ability to take ownership

• A collaborative approach to solving problems while bringing positive energy to the team 

• Ability to give and receive professional feedback

• Relentlessly learn and think in solutions



What you bring to the team:

• Education Bachelor and/or Master level in Computer Science or Finance (or related degree).

• Self-starter, 5+ years of industry experience in IT 

• Banking/Financial Markets products/processes knowledge (FX Products, FIX protocol)

• Thorough understanding of, and experience with Windows/Linux, networking, scripting languages (e.g. bash, Python, Perl, PowerShell) and databases (SQL or No SQL or both)

• Experience with managing full-stack vendor packages, and additionally (low latency) infrastructural stack knowledge 

• Knowledge of Agile Methodologies

• An excellent spoken and written command of English



Nice to have:

• Hands-on knowledge of monitoring tools (such as Logstash, Kibana, Elastic Search), scheduling tools (e.g. TWS), Tibco Rendezvous, experience with running applications in Docker containers

• Experience with programming languages (C++, C# or Java or any such comparable languages) 

The Mission:

ING is looking for driven IT DevOps Engineers to work on the FX and Money Markets trading platforms. The in-house built high-performance pricing systems, together with the vendor-built trading, quoting systems, time-series databases and complex event processing engines are key platforms for the real-time low-latency landscape in scope of the growing Financial Markets domain.

ING is using this environment to connect to a large amount of trading exchanges, worldwide to offer the sharpest pricing quotes and executions to our clients. Therefore these systems are on dedicated infrastructure in special datacenters located in close proximity to the key markets..

With the further digital transformation of pricing and trading, it is an important cornerstone of ING Financial Markets IT. You can be a key asset for ING and an important part of this journey to make it successful with us all.



Your Day-to-Day:

You work within a multidisciplinary scrum team. Your primary responsibility is guaranteeing the operational stability and availability of our applications at all times. 

The range of tasks includes the following:

• You are responsible for supporting a stable, performing and secure platform/service

• You readily deal with incidents and requests raised by our users, but also downstream customers.

• You take ownership of issues and improvements, seeing them through to completion, providing comprehensive handover as required.

• You assist with functional specifications for change requests and testing release stories 

• You automate relentlessly: Regression Testing (Functional, Performance, Security)

• Performing Incident, Problem and Change Management, including writing user stories for resolving problems

• Liaise with the vendor about environment updates and upgrades

• Propose opportunities and innovations

• Occasional standby on rotation is required

As part of a DevOps squad, work closely with the Product Owner, business stakeholders and engineers from related teams

 

Occasional travel abroad (Amsterdam and London ) is required.