Technical Specialist

Role & Responsibilities

As part of a hybrid team your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring high availability and operational stability of the platforms

• Managing technical and functional incidents, including participation in the on-call rotation

• Supporting pre-production and production deployments

• Contributing to monitoring and alerting improvements

• Driving automation initiatives to increase efficiency

• Ensuring compliance with ING risk and security standards

Required Skills

Core Expertise

• Strong experience in Incident, Change, and Configuration Management (ITIL)

• Experience in Lifecycle management, risk management, and documentation

• Hands-on experience with

• Unix/Linux environments (including shell scripting)

• Red Hat OpenShift or equivalent container platforms

• Running containerized microservices

• Running Java components in virtualized environment

• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps (CI/CD pipelines using YAML, Ansible, Git)

• Knowledge of Ansible is must

• Experience with monitoring and observability tools: ELK, Grafana, Prometheus

• Experience with Oracle or other relational databases

• Experience with Kafka topics usage

• Experience or strong interest in Payments domain

• Familiarity with Agile / Scrum way of working

• Willingness to be part of an on-call rotation (24/7 service availability)

Additional Skills (Nice to Have)

• Previous Operations experience within Financial domain

• Understanding of Java and Spring framework concepts

• Experience with GridGain, Apache Ignite, or other in-memory data solutions

• Knowledge of Cloud computing concepts

• Interest in Automation of repetitive tasks

Soft Skills

• Team player with strong collaboration mindset

• Solution-driven approach

• Understand the business and acts it

• Proactive and self-motivated

• Strong communication skills

• Local language speaking candidate is preferable