ING Bank

Financial Services

SeniorReliabilityEngineer

$140–210k ~AI est. Romania FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“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.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

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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