Platform Engineer

As an experienced Platform Engineer in the Order Manager as a Platform (OMaaP) team, you will help build ING's next-generation payments platform. OMaaP is designed to process millions of Instant Payments and SEPA Credit Transfer orders daily for all European ING entities.

You will work with market-standard technologies, modern engineering practices, and a highly scalable cloud-native architecture.

You will contribute to a mission-critical environment where resilience, real-time processing, observability and automation are key. ING is actively migrating traditional applications into containerized hosting environments and preparing for a full cloud-native journey. This role is central to that transformation. Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain OMaaP internal and external API capabilities.
• Implement order creation, routing to the Payment Engine and warehousing until execution.
• Enable full lifecycle tracking and status reporting of payment orders.
• Design and optimize high-volume, asynchronous, stateless and resilient systems.
• Implement and improve observability tooling and dashboards.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and automation using Azure DevOps.
• Deploy and manage workloads on container and non-container platforms.
• Support production environments (24/7 availability) and participate in standby rotations.
• Work within ING's Scrum and DevOps practices, delivering iteratively with high quality.

Do you have experience in UNIX?, Do you have a Master's degree?, * Bachelor's or Master's degree in IT or a related technical field.

• Minimum 5 years of relevant engineering experience, ideally in an international environment.
• Strong knowledge of Linux fundamentals and virtualization concepts.
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration platforms: Kubernetes and/or OpenShift.
• Solid experience with CI/CD tools: Azure DevOps, Git, Maven, Ansible - including automated deployments on container platforms.

Strong experience with open-source monitoring and observability tools:

• Grafana

• Kibana

• Prometheus

• Elastic / ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)

• Experience designing dashboards, observability pipelines, and performance/health metrics.

• Practical experience with Helm for Kubernetes package management.

• Good scripting skills (Bash, Unix).

• Good knowledge of relational databases, especially Oracle.

• Experience in platform troubleshooting, performance tuning, and platform optimization.

• Basic understanding of Scrum/Kanban and Agile methodologies.

• Affinity with Risk and Compliance.

• 24×7 production support experience and willingness to join standby rotations.

Nice to have:

• Experience with automated testing frameworks.
• Experience with ELKaaS provisioning and configuration.
• Experience in designing resilience patterns, idempotent architecture and large-scale asynchronous processing.

• 12 months contract with the possibility of extension, aiming for internal employment at ING after 18 months.
• A 36 hour workweek with flexible hours and a hybrid working model (office and home-based).
• Salary range: €4.500,00 - €6.750,00 gross per month (based on 36 hours per week, excluding holiday pay, based on experience).
• Additional benefits: holiday allowance, 13th month and pension contributions.

Ready to strenghten the ING Bank team? Do you recognize yourself in this profile and are you ready for a new challenge? Send us your resume and motivation and who knows; you might soon be our new colleague!