Senior IT Security Engineer

About the Position

Senior IT Security Engineer @ING Hubs Romania

We are looking for a Senior IT Security Engineer to join our team in Romania. This role is pivotal in strengthening ING’s security posture by guiding product teams in secure design, threat mitigation, vulnerability remediation, penetration test readiness, and regulatory compliance. You will be part of a new Security Engineering Services multinational team (Romania & Netherlands), acting as one Center of Excellence (COE) combining deep expertise in Infrastructure & network security, DevSecOps & Application security, and Data & Analytics & AI/ML security.

Responsibilities

• Provide hands-on guidance to ensure teams design and build secure, resilient, and compliant systems by default.
• Conduct security assessments (infrastructure, application, data, ML/AI) and support teams in remediation.
• Translate security standards into practical, developer-friendly best practices.
• Partner with software engineers, SREs, data engineers, and platform teams to embed security into the full lifecycle of applications, systems, and platforms.
• Act as a subject matter expert in IT security, providing proactive guidance, coaching, and support to engineering teams.
• Assess emerging technologies, modern engineering patterns, and security threats, and communicate their impact in clear, actionable guidance.
• Contribute to security communities of practice, knowledge-sharing sessions, and initiatives that uplift the overall security maturity.
• Support risk assessments, threat modeling, blue/red teaming, security testing, and design reviews to ensure solutions are secure and compliant by default.
• Contribute to the automation and continuous improvement of security engineering processes (reducing toil).

Requirements

• Core Requirements: Strong IT experience using technologies such as Azure pipelines, Kubernetes, Virtual Machines (Linux/Windows), Database solutions (e.g., Oracle/MSSQL/Cassandra), application / API development.
• Strong understanding of general IT security concepts (secure design, threat modeling, vulnerability management).
• Track record in security assessments, reporting, and supporting remediation activities.
• Ability to explain complex security topics in a clear and pragmatic way.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Can-do mentality, entrepreneurial to help building a new team.

Preferred Certifications

• Google Professional Machine Learning Engineer
• AWS Machine Learning Specialty
• Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate
• ISACA CDPSE (Data Privacy)
• Exposure to MITRE ATLAS / adversarial ML tools (valued but not mandatory)

Locations

• Bucarest, Roumanie
• Cluj-Napoca, Roumanie

We Offer

• Opportunity to work in a highly collaborative and innovative environment.
• Be part of a multinational team with a shared desire to make the world a better place.
• Professional growth and development opportunities.

About the Company

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 operate from two locations: Bucharest and Cluj-Napoca.