OPS Engineer – Data Streaming

Streaming Data Analytics (SDA) is a platform developed internally within ING aimed at getting real time insights based on real time data. The underlying technology is based on Apache Flink and Apache Kafka deployed using Microsoft DevOps on a Openshift cluster on our internal private cloud and soon also on the public cloud. Users of the platform are other teams within ING, spread across various domains and countries, that use the SDA platform for purposes like fraud detection, KYC and generating realtime actionable insights. 

Your responsibilities: 

As an OPS/SRE engineer you will work in a multi-disciplinary squad of Ops and Dev engineers and will be responsible for improving the platform experience of our consuming teams, starting at their onboarding process throughout their entire lifecycle. You will use feedback from consuming teams as well as from your own team, metrics and logs from the system as input to further improve the scalability and resilience of the platform. You will either implement the improvements yourself and/or will work with your SDA squad members. 

Technology, tools and process knowledge: 

• Familiarity with ITIL (Incident, Problem, and Change Management) (Should have) 

• Knowledge of Azure DevOps Pipelines (must have) 

• Experience with the ELK stack (should have) 

• DevOps Experience on GCP, preferably Dataflow  (Very nice to  have) 

• Skills in Docker, Kubernetes, and Openshift (should have) 

• Understanding of Kafka (should have) 

• Proficiency in Unix/Linux and bash scripting (should have) 

Coaching skills: 

• Mentoring and training consumers in the use of our platform 

• Facilitation skills 

Mindset & soft skills: 

• Willingness to do a deep dive into the internals of Apache Flink 

• Automation mindset & waste buster 

• Proactive attitude, always on the look-out for improving your and our way of working 

• Diplomacy and good communication skills 

• Not shy to express and defend his/her opinion in front of a crowd (even if it is not the popular opinion) 

• Analysis capabilities and testing abilities 

You'll get extra points for: 

• being Communicative, articulative, pro-active, team-player and easy to approach. 

Education:   

Bachelor’s degree in IT / Computer Science  

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 

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation 

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities 

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues 

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.