Chapter Lead - Ops Engineer

Why Pricing & Risk?
Our Pricing & Risk domain provide our Traders and Financial Risk Managers with instant and accurate pricing and risk simulations for their Interest Rates-, Foreign Exchange-, and Credit derivatives product/service offering, such that millions of potential future scenarios can be evaluated pre-deal, instantly. The Squads use an in-memory cache (Apache Ignite) and GPU computing, for high-performance computing as well as in-memory OLAP cubes for analysis of high data volumes.

Your Mission
As a Chapter Lead you have 2 objectives: facilitate your colleagues in your chapter Ops Engineers on growing their Engineering skills (Tooling, database performance/replication, Linux, IT Security, etc) as well as on their Domain knowledge (Financial Markets trade life cycle) and System knowledge and technical skills. As a Chapter Lead Operations Engineer in our Platform Squad you provide the automation, tooling, resilience and security necessary for smooth feature delivery by your colleague Capability Squads. Your purpose is to make these Capability Squads ever faster and reliable.

Your Day-to-Day
•  You work closely together with Capability Squads to help them on-board to the ING Private Cloud infrastructure. You will master all the technical-, infrastructure- , security- and deployment aspects of this cloud solution to design a fit-for purpose stack; Also assisting the Capability Squads with a seamless migration to this cloud infrastructure
• Take responsibility for the full the stack/platform on Development, Test as well as Acceptance and Production environments. You automate relentlessly: Regression Testing (Functional, Performance, Security), Deployments, and Operations (Data Center failover, Backups/Restore, Security).
• Providing an integrated monitoring framework to correlate application and infrastructure metrics to SLA dashboards/reports.
• You take ownership of life cycle management of all components (O.S., Middleware, Database) as well as security (interface encryption certificates, user access, vulnerability analysis and patching). Our Pricing & Risk applications primarily use: Linux, Oracle and Apache Ignite, Java based applications
• As a Chapter Lead you take the personal development/growth of your chapter members at heart, you coach them and set challenging objectives together with the IT Area Lead
• You will need your analytic skills and propose improvements that are future proof and will fit the ING standards
• As part of a cross-border (Amsterdam, Bucharest) Platform Squad you work in an Agile/Scrum way, on the backlog prioritized by a Technical Product Owner..
• Our platform has a global user base of Risk Managers, Traders, Sales in Singapore, Europe, New York, you are responsible for supporting a stable, performing and secure platform/service.

What you bring to the team
• University degree in Computer Science, Cybernetics, Informatics or equivalent;
• 4+ years’ experience as an infrastructure professional;
• You are highly knowledgeable on Red Hat operating systems and networking You are also showing knowledge and interest in clustered environments;
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (such as: Git, Jenkins, Fortify, Sonar), scheduling tools (e.g. TWSd);
• Experience with at least one virtualization- and/or containerization technologies; VMWare, Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, Openshift;
• Ability to automate release processes and operations using e.g. Python, Shell, Ansible;
• Passion for technology, drive for continuous improvement, and using your creativity to achieve this;
• Occasional travel abroad for knowledge buildup and getting to know your colleagues is required.

Nice to have
• Knowledge on Windows server platforms and MSSQL;
• Highly interested in performance analysis and tuning of data bases (Oracle) and in-memory distributed caches (e.g. Apache Ignite).
• You have experience with setting up and maintaining monitoring frameworks (e.g. Logstash/Kibana/Elastic Search/ Nagios/ Graphite/Grafana). Setting up dashboards for: performance metrics, trend analysis, alerts.
• You can prove knowledge about authentication and authorization web-technologies based on web-tokens.