Senior Ops Engineer – IPA Ops @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 Market environment, building a platform integrating your own pricing and risk models is crucial to stay in control of your risk while keeping a competitive edge. ING Financial Markets has taken up the challenge by initiating the building of the ING Pricing Architecture (IPA) platform.

The IPA project landscape consists of service-oriented components that will enable the real-time and portfolio calculations of financial risk metrics and simulations (e.g. VaR, Expected Shortfall, Bilateral Margining) driven by new ECB regulations as well as advanced risk analysis on the derivative product portfolio of Financial Markets (interest rates, credits, foreign exchange). This will be a key platform in the IT landscape for global dealing rooms with 10 scrum teams cooperating towards one Financial Markets IT landscape.

The Trade Store project is one of the essential applications within the IPA domain. It serves the strategic purpose of pricing trade portfolios uniformly, regardless of data formats or complexities of various deal capture systems within the bank (e.g. Murex, Summit). Apart from secondary purposes, the Trade Store application is responsible for:

• Capturing all trade feeds within the bank via various integration methods and handling their lifecycle;
• Modeling data in a uniform format based on each specific product using Google protocol buffers and compressed serialization;
• Serving the data via high throughput APIs based on Google RPCs and distributed in-memory caching systems for EOD risk pricing purposes;
• Streaming data for pre-deal pricing purposes;

Your Day to Day

Even if you start your day from home or in the office garden, your daily responsibilities include:

• Monitoring, supporting, and running the IPA service multiple components such as in-memory Trade Store (Java based, Apache Ignite, Linux technologies, distributed systems architecture), Calculation/Risk Engine, Static Data Manager, workflow Orchestrator, and Post Processing application;
• Incident management and root cause analysis for unavailability and data quality issues; communicating directly with users (Traders, Credit/Market Risk Managers) in Amsterdam, London, Brussels, New York, and Singapore;
• Implementing and working with latest tooling focusing on performance, stability, and security;
• Automating testing (features, performance, security), deployments, monitoring, and more;
• Ensuring IT Risk & security controls compliance per ING Information Security Management Policy;
• Continuous deployment and delivery using Azure DevOps;
• Collaborating with Dev and Ops engineers to define, refine, and improve technical architecture;
• Agile/Scrum collaboration for releasing new sprint cycles every 2–4 weeks to Acceptance and Production.

What You’ll Bring to the Team

Experience

• 5+ years of software engineering/operations experience.

Tech Stack / Knowledge

Mandatory:

• Advanced CI/CD knowledge and experience with Git, Python, Ansible, Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 or 8), Shell scripting, JVM-based applications;
• Experience with Azure DevOps or similar tools such as Jenkins;
• Familiarity with Grafana and alerting tools like Prometheus;
• Understanding ELK Stack and how to interact with it;
• Familiarity with Confluence, ServiceNow, Checkmarx;
• Experience or affinity with IT Risk & Security concepts;
• IT Operations/support experience including functional support to end users (Traders, Risk Managers, Collateral Managers), analytical skills to identify root causes of workflow incidents;
• Customer focus with a mindset to resolve root causes of incidents for structural improvements;
• Good team player, cross-functional, with enjoyment interacting in multicultural environments;
• Proactive and attentive to others’ needs.

Nice to Have

• Familiarity with Oracle 12c/19c with PL/SQL;
• Familiarity with in-memory caching tools such as Apache Ignite (GridGain) or Redis;
• Familiarity with Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes or Openshift.

Foreign Languages

• English (advanced).

Education

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