Senior Platform Engineer - Observability

At ING the landscape has become increasingly complex with more applications added every day. We depend and rely on each other to deliver a reliable service to our customers that demands the very best of us.

Every single day, our engineers typically look at metrics, traces and logs to assess the health of their application, all of which need to be pulled from different sources and interfaces. MDPL provides a solution where they can combine data with just a few clicks but being connected and dependent on a large chain of applications raises the need for insights beyond their application to run a reliable service.

Platform Engineering is responsible for monitoring and observability data services, such as providing components for onboarding, data storage, dashboarding, alerting and offering observability insights to all ING engineers globally. You will support the observability core team in running the core capabilities and increasing observability maturity across ING.

The Team

MDPL v2 Core squad is an international team of highly qualified DevOps engineers. You will join a team where the product is constantly evolving and introducing new features. The platform is based on several components developed in Go(lang). The components are deployed on ING’s private cloud (RedHat OpenShift) as well as the public cloud (MS Azure (AKS))

Roles And Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Platform Engineer to join our team in a DevOps environment. The successful candidate will have a strong background in Observability and a deep understanding of Open Telemetry, and experience working in a complex, enterprise-level environment.You will have a leading role in the squad regarding designing, implementing, and testing new and improved functionality of the products. You understand the entire lifecycle of an application from refinement up until release to production, as well as the operational aspects like monitoring, alerting, and resolving incidents.

• Drive improvements in our current Observability solution
• Enable ING teams globally to have a frictionless experience in storing and exposing the Telemetry data for their applications.
• Incorporate AI features to our Observability solution
• Extend the solution to run On-premises as well as Public Cloud.
• Use the latest technologies to improve the usability of our solution.

How To Succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

• 15+ years solid experience in Software/Systems Engineering
• Strong knowledge of and extensive experience with software development principles and design patterns
• Formidable team player skills, empowering and challenging the squad members in a constructive way.
• Knowledge of and experience with Azure DevOps pipelines.

• Experience With Openshift/Kubernetes

• Experience With Linux

• Experience With Terraform

• Experience with AI (LLM, Prompting, Coding)
• Experience with OpenTelemetry (Logging, Metrics and Tracing)
• 10+ years solid experience with Go / Java or Python
• Experience with Public Cloud providers (Azure, GCP) and solutions working on the cloud is an advantage.
• Higher education in (Information) Technology or work experience that demonstrates you operate on this level.
• Excellent command of the English language. Dutch language skills are an advantage but not a must-have.
• Our technology stack and practices include among others (but not limited to):
• Monitoring and Observability tools as Grafana LGTM, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, Splunk.
• A diverse set of programming languages: Java, Python and Golang.
• Practices such as SRE, Chaos engineering.
• Our technology stack and practices include among others (but not limited to):
• Monitoring and Observability tools as Grafana LGTM, Prometheus, Open Telemetry, Splunk.
• A diverse set of programming languages: Java, Python and Golang.
• Practices such as SRE, Chaos engineering.

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 Benefits in the Netherlands  

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 25-28 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.

Questions?

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.