API Solutionist Reference number: 2535

Job description

Your role & work environment
Cloud services & Reliability are a standard in the modern IT infrastructure. Full swing migrating traditional applications to its own Private Cloud and preparing for cloud native journey towards Public Cloud. As passionate IT engineers, we are continuously researching improvements and new technologies that could benefit our cloud journeys. This is where you come in to play!
Our teams are responsible for the reliability of ING’s IT services, which we do through a combination of software & systems engineering as well as enforcing best practices (Resilience patterns, Monitoring, Postmortems, etc.). We do this in a complex IT landscape with many interconnected applications. We use our influence to improve engineering, process and patterns for every service / component that is part of the application chains serving our customer journeys.
As an engineer/architect? in a global organisation such as ING, you build solutions which are enterprise scalable, secure, compliant and of course reliable. You would be working with other team members to help DevOps teams to adopt, migrate and consume our container platforms on private and public clouds.

Your key responsibilities
[Technical skills]
• Proven experience and knowledge on private, public (Azure, Google) and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Experience & Ambition in Site Reliability Engineering and advocating SRE among peers to apply to our solutions and organization.
• Proven experience designing High Available and Disaster Recovery capable solutions in a wide organization.
• Advanced knowledge in API development in Java / Springboot
• Advanced platform knowledge in platform VM (Windows / Linux) , as well as container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, AKS)
• Middleware knowledge like event buses (Kafka, MQ), File Transfer, Application server solutions
• Knowledge of datastores (structured and non-structured); Oracle DBaaS, Cassandra, ECS S3 Object store, …




[Architecture and drive]

• Proven Track record in reducing complexity and of delivering complex IT initiatives across multiple teams.
• Experience in complex application landscapes where you were a part of multiple application chains.
• Experience & Ambition with developing high available microservices / Solutions (uptime 24*7, 99.88%)
[Soft skills]
• Good presenter who can convey stories well between business and IT stakeholders.
• Self-disciplined, very proactive and organized, with ability to identify what needs to be done.
• Strong team player, empowering and challenging squad/chapter members to foster collaboration and individual development.
• Market focus and Outside-in thinker

We look for
A colleague with a talent for taking it on and making it happen, enthusiasm for helping others to be successful and a knack for always being a step ahead. In other words, you strive to bring fresh ideas to life and embrace challenges in a fast changing and complex environment. You are a naturally collaborative person who listens and invests in others to achieve common goals. You love to challenge the status quo and are eager to propose creative solutions to problems.
As a Solutionist you will also need:
• Bachelor / Master of Science in Computer Science or equivalent experienceWe offer you