DevOps Engineer | IPA Tradestore Team @ING Hubs Romania

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 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 2000 high-performing engineers, risk, and operations professionals. 

We started out in 2015 as ING’s software development hub, 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 1800 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

In the Financial Markets environment, maintaining control of risk while remaining competitive requires highly reliable and well‑operated platforms. The ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) is a strategic platform that enables real‑time and portfolio‑based risk calculations and supports regulatory and advanced risk analysis needs for Financial Markets.

Within this domain, the Trade Store application plays a key role by enabling uniform pricing and processing of trade portfolios, independent of underlying deal capture systems. The platform is built using modern, distributed, in‑memory technologies and supports global trading and risk users.

As part of the IPA operations team, you will contribute to the stability, availability, and continuous improvement of this critical platform, working in an Agile environment alongside development, operations, and business stakeholders.

Your day to day

Your key responsabilities will include:

• Operate and support the Trade Store on a daily basis, a Java‑based, distributed, in‑memory system critical to the IPA platform

• Monitor application health, performance, and data quality, responding to alerts and incidents

• Handle incidents and participate in root cause analysis for recurring or impactful production issues

• Communicate operational status and issues to internal stakeholders, including engineering teams and business users

• Implement and maintain automation for deployments, monitoring, and operational checks

• Work with CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps

• Apply IT Risk and Security controls in line with ING policies and procedures

• Contribute to Agile/Scrum delivery cycles, supporting regular releases to acceptance and production environments

• Maintain clear and accurate operational documentation using tools such as ServiceNow and Confluence

• Be part of an on‑call rotation (around 5 weeks annually) and support weekend release deployments (around 5 weekends annually) for the full IPA platform, including but not limited to Trade Store.

What you'll bring to the team

Experience

• 3–5+ years of experience in IT operations, platform engineering, or software engineering roles

• Experience supporting production systems in a regulated or enterprise environment

• Education: Education at Bachelor/Master level with a strong analytical background, in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Software Engineering, Financial Engineering or equivalent

Technical Skills

• Working experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation practices

• Solid hands‑on experience with:

  • Linux (Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 / 10)

  • Shell scripting

  • Python

  • Ansible

  • Git

  • JVM‑based applications

• Mandatory experience with containerization and orchestration technologies:

  • Docker

  • Kubernetes

  • OpenShift

• Experience using:

  • Azure DevOps or similar CI/CD tools

  • Grafana and Prometheus for monitoring and alerting

  • ELK Stack for logging and troubleshooting

• SQL working experience, including:

  • Writing and debugging queries

  • Investigating data and consistency issues

• Familiarity with:

  • ServiceNow (incident and problem management)

  • Confluence (technical and operational documentation)

  • Security tooling such as Checkmarx

• Basic to intermediate understanding of IT Risk and Security controls

Foreign languages: English (advanced)

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