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Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Senior Reliability Engineer | Engineering & Reliability @ ING Bank
Mission
The SRE team is responsible for rolling out SRE practices to improve the reliability of ING’s critical services in Romania. The Reliability Authority role extends these practices by focusing on deep engineering, systemic resilience, and end-to-end reliability of Critical Business Services.
Responsibilities
- Develop, innovate, mature, and implement advanced SRE reliability practices and related IT processes across ING, in cooperation with the Global Engineering & Reliability teams.
- Integrate standards for resilience engineering, ensuring systems are built to withstand and recover from failure.
- Ensure proper documentation, training material, and knowledge transfer across engineering teams within ING Romania.
- Contribute as a reliability expert to key operational activities, focusing on services or incidents touching multiple areas.
- Perform critical business service/critical chain reviews to identify weaknesses.
- Conduct deep failure-mode analysis.
- Support global major incidents as a technical authority.
- Ensure high-quality systemic root-cause analysis and structural follow-up across Tech domains.
- Drive engineering principles such as toil reduction, automation-first mindset, and reliability improvement cycles.
Requirements
- Education: Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related discipline.
- Experience: Relevant experience in SRE, platform engineering, and/or software architect roles, with strong experience in distributed systems and resilience design.
- Skills:
- Deep understanding of distributed systems, failure patterns, and cloud-native architectures.
- Experience with containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes).
- Knowledge of microservices architectures (service mesh, API-driven systems, eventual consistency).
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks (Azure DevOps, GitOps, pipeline-as-code).
- Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, service discovery).
- Experience with databases (SQL/NoSQL, replication, consistency models).
- Software development (Java, Kotlin, Python, or similar).
- Advanced observability practices.
- Strong experience integrating AI/ML capabilities in operations (AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, automation).
- Tools: ING Private cloud or Public cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD platforms, observability stacks (Prometheus, ELK, tracing tools), networking and load balancing tools, database platforms, reliability validation tooling.
- Attributes:
- Strong systems thinking and problem-solving mindset.
- Ability to reason about complex distributed systems and identify non-obvious failure modes.
- Exceptional communication skills.
- Ability to lead without authority and drive change across multiple teams.
- High ownership, resilience mindset, and continuous improvement attitude.
We Offer
- Impactful work in a fun, inclusive, and highly collaborative environment.
- Modern, open office spaces built for teamwork and creative work.
- Hybrid working model with flexibility baked in.
- Monthly benefit budget you can use your way.
- Extra paid vacation days based on total work experience.
- Continuous learning opportunities through ING Learning Centre, Udemy, Bookster, trainings, and certifications.
- Internal mobility across ING worldwide, including short- and long-term international assignments.
- Opportunities to contribute to sustainability and CSR initiatives.
About the Company
ING believes in a world where everyone should have the freedom to grow in their own way - our global tagline, “do your thing”, reflects this belief. We empower our people with autonomy and expect them to use it to create meaningful impact for customers, colleagues, and the organization.
Working here means being surrounded by energetic, ambitious, and supportive colleagues. We embrace curiosity, thrive on change, and continuously explore better ways of doing things.
With more than 30 years of presence in Romania, ING has been a pioneer in transforming the local banking landscape, driven by technology and innovation.
ING Bank Romania is the only bank in the local top 10 that has achieved its position through organic growth, without acquiring portfolios or other banks. We serve over 1.9 million clients across Retail, SME & Mid‑Corporate, and Wholesale Banking.
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