ING Bank
Financial Services
SeniorReliabilityEngineer
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“Senior Reliability Engineer at ING Bank. Skills: Reliability engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Resilience engineering, Distributed systems. Develop reliability engineering practices. Innovate reliability engineering practices”
What You'll Achieve.
Improve reliability of ING’s critical services; Improve availability; Faster recovery; Reduced operational risk; Deliver changes safely; Deliver changes efficiently at scale
Industry & Context.
Problem-solving mindset; Reason about complex distributed systems; Identify non-obvious failure modes; Root cause analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, information systems or a related discipline, Relevant experience / SRE / platform engineering and/or software architect roles, Experience in distributed systems and resilience design, Deep understanding of distributed systems, failure patterns and cloud-native architectures, Containers and orchestration platforms (Docker, Kubernetes), Microservices architectures (service mesh, API-driven systems, eventual consistency), CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks (Azure DevOps, GitOps, pipeline-as-code), Networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, service discovery), Databases (SQL/NoSQL, replication, consistency models), Software development (Java, Kotlin, Python or similar), Advanced observability practices, Experience integrating AI/ML capabilities in operations (AIOps, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, automation)
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience a plus
What You'll Do.
Develop reliability engineering practices
Innovate reliability engineering practices
Mature reliability engineering practices
Implement reliability engineering practices
Focus on resilience by design
Prevent systemic failure
Establish reliability patterns
Enforce reliability patterns
Validate implementations through engineering controls
Ensure integration within CI/CD
Ensure integration within runtime environments
Work with Enterprise Architecture
Work with DevOps teams
Work with Global Engineering & Reliability
Ensure alignment with resilience patterns
Identify systemic reliability weaknesses
Eliminate systemic reliability weaknesses
Ensure end-to-end visibility
Ensure failure isolation
Ensure recovery mechanisms
Focus on resilience engineering
Focus on reliability engineering
Identify failure modes
Validate resilience patterns
Correlate observability
Mature resilience engineering practices
Mature failure testing practices
Mature error budget management
Use error budget as decision mechanism
Drive toil reduction programs
Identify repetitive manual work
Mature major incident management
Mature problem management
Conduct blameless post-mortems
Mature reliability lifecycle practices
Manage prevent cycles
Manage respond cycles
Manage improve cycles
Manage reliability across SDLC
Enable early detection
Mature capacity planning
Mature performance engineering
Align capacity planning with growth
Align performance engineering with growth
Drive adoption of reliability testing
Drive adoption of continuous validation
Drive adoption of well-architected reviews
Enable reliability for Digital Products
Drive adoption of One Engineering System
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cooperation with Global Engineering & Reliability teams; Work closely with Enterprise Architecture; Work closely with DevOps teams; Work closely with Global Engineering & Reliability
Communication Scope
Exceptional communication
Process & Methodology
Pipeline-as-code, GitOps
Full Job Description
**Mission** The SRE team is responsible to roll-out the SRE practices to improve the reliability of ING’s critical services on Romania. The Reliability Authority role extends these practices by focusing on deep engineering, systemic resilience and end-to-end reliability of Critical Business Services. Develops, innovates, matures & implements advanced SRE reliability practices and related IT processes across ING, in cooperation with the Global Engineering & Reliability teams. Integrates the standards for resilience engineering, ensuring systems are built to withstand and recover from failure. Ensures proper documentation, training material and knowledge transfer across engineering teams within ING Romania. Contributes as a reliability expert to key operational activities with a focus on services or incidents touching multiple areas; this includes performing critical business service / critical chain reviews to identify weaknesses, conducting deep failure-mode analysis, supporting global major incidents as technical authority, ensuring high-quality systemic root-cause analysis and structural follow-up across Tech domains, while continuously driving engineering principles such as toil reduction, automation-first mindset and reliability improvement cycles. As a **Senior Reliability Engineer** , you will enable the reliability and scalability of ING’s Digital Products by leveraging the One Engineering System (1ES)—the bank’s standardized engineering platform. You will ensure that products are built using consistent tooling, golden paths, and integrated observability and delivery pipelines, embedding reliability, security, and quality by design. Through 1ES adoption, you will drive improved availability, faster recovery, and reduced operational risk while empowering teams to deliver changes safely and efficiently at scale. **About the team** The Engineering & Reliability team in ING Romania is part of the global Engineering & Reliability organization, bringing together ca
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