Ops Engineer - Cloud Environment

Ops Engineer - Cloud Environment
Permanent contract, Full-time, Brussels

Your role & work environment

We are looking for an Ops engineer to join us in Sophis Platform squad responsible for deployment, patching and managing the infrastructure for Finastra’s financial markets package Sophis, within the WB FM> Platform 2 area. You’ll work in Brussels in a multi skilled Platform squad, using the agile methodology to deliver on the company and business’ priorities, from the backlog.

You need a have fair knowledge of Windows server technology aspect and interested in the set-up of application on Cloud technology.

You strive towards automation and you assist in bringing us to full continuous delivery.

Your key responsibilities

As a system engineer, one of the key role is to be the first line of interaction with our users in case of any issue on infrastructure in nature. You’ll need to handle comfortably all sides of service management such as incident, problem and change management.

Thanks to your technical knowledge of the deployment, you should be able to use the Azure for the deployment of Sophis package (client and server side), you’ll assist the ops and other system engineers in acceptance testing on infrastructure, deployment, maintaining and proactive monitoring all Sophis platform alerts for the different processes. You’ll give feedback to the developers to improve stability, monitoring and recoverability of all our applications.

With a DevOps attitude, you’ll need to automate ops related tasks using the modern continuous delivery tools from source control for your scripts to extending existing deployment pipelines with Azure DevOps.

The following items are vital in this:

Contribute to the new way of working

• You work together with colleagues from other areas of expertise and take initiative in expanding knowledge (both within and outside of your area of expertise) that is relevant for the Investing area in which you work;
• You use your technical expertise and experience to contribute to all sprint events (planning, refinements, retrospectives, demos);
• Where possible, you take on tasks/activities that contribute to the mission, even when they are not entirely within your area of expertise.

Skillset

• Educated in software engineering (min. Bachelor degree)
• Good exposure of working in cloud environment. Bonus if experience with Oracle Databases.
• Experience in delivering solutions on the Windows platform (Citrix, Windows servers, …)
• A good knowledge in SQL programming: syntax, objects utilization and optimization is a real plus
• Experience in one relevant programming language (PowerShell)
• Experience in monitoring of scheduler jobs.
• Comfortable with Agile and Continuous Delivery practices;
• Pro-active, assertive and a good communicator;
• Have an excellent written and spoken English (knowledge of Dutch and/or French is an asset)

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.

You will need to:

• You bring the right mind set and work as a team in a pragmatic approach;
• You take full ownership in building and running the platform;
• You actively participate in the planning and estimation of tasks;
• You are in constant dialogue with your tribe: you understand the goal of our business and work in a team of experts to find the most relevant solution for the customer’s needs.

We offer you

A clear purpose, a unique offer and a range of flexible compensation and other benefits:

• Personal growth & challenging work with endless opportunities to realize your ambitions;
• An informal, dynamic environment with innovative colleagues supporting your endeavors;
• A progressive and agile way of working, where new ideas are valued ahead of convention
• Working in an international environment
• Access to online and class room trainings, conferences, etc.
• 30+ holidays
• Flexible reward plan with options like car lease, pension savings, extra holidays
• Option to work from home

We redefine banking. What about you?
There has never been a more interesting time to work at ING. We’re on a journey that’s centered around our customers, powered by technology and driven by smart, determined people. Our customers feel our people are empowering them to stay a step ahead in life and in business. We’re proud of that!