Senior DevOps Engineer IT Operations

Financial Markets Transaction Reporting

About the role

ING is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of relevant experience to play a key role in the Financial Markets Transaction Reporting platform. In this role, you will not only support and operate critical systems, but also manage improvements in platform stability, automation, observability, and DevOps maturity.

You will work in a highly regulated, businesscritical domain, ensuring that transaction reporting platforms remain reliable, scalable, and compliant. As a senior engineer, you are expected to take endtoend ownership, mentor team members, and actively shape how DevOps is practiced within the team.

The context

ING must comply with multiple global regulatory frameworks, including:

MiFID II / MiFIR Markets in Financial Instruments Directive

EMIR European Market Infrastructure Regulation

SFTR Securities Financing Transactions Regulation

Within Transaction Reporting, we are responsible for collecting, enriching, validating, and submitting trade data to external Global Trade Repositories. All reports must be complete, accurate, and delivered on time, as they directly support regulatory obligations.

You will work with a modern, hybrid application landscape, consisting of:

Inhouse developed microservices

Vendormanaged SaaS solutions

Cloudnative, containerized platforms

What you will do

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you are responsible for platform reliability, operational excellence, and DevOps evolution.

Platform Ownership & Operations

Take endtoend ownership of production and nonproduction platforms

Provide expertlevel application and platform support

Lead platform lifecycle activities such as upgrades, patching, and decommissioning

Act as a senior escalation point for incidents and complex operational issues

Collaborate with SaaS vendors to ensure stable and predictable operations

Participate in oncall/standby rotations and lead planned changes outside office hours when required

• Analyze and solve issues in Financial Markets Regulatory Transaction Reporting related to Data Quality. 
• Test and implement new application releases to Production
• And experience: Hands-on experience in writing SQL queries.

DevOps Engineering & Automation

Design and improve automation across deployment, configuration, and operations

Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines

Drive improvements in monitoring, alerting, and observability

Improve platform resilience, scalability, and availability

Reduce operational toil through smart engineering choices

How to succeed

You will succeed in this role if you:

Are comfortable acting as a senior engineer

Thrive in an Agile / DevOps environment

Communicate clearly and confidently in spoken and written English

Live the ING Orange Code:

You take ownership and accountability

You collaborate across teams and disciplines

You continuously improve and challenge the status quo

You help others grow by sharing knowledge and experience

We expect that you have

5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Site Reliability Engineering

Strong experience supporting businesscritical platforms

Handson expertise with:

Linux and/or Windows Server

Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Experience in enterprise or regulated environments

Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

High standards for documentation, reliability, and operational quality

A mindset focused on automation, resilience, and continuous improvement

It would be nice if you have

Experience with CI/CD tooling such as Git and Azure DevOps

Experience designing or improving observability solutions (metrics, logs, alerts)

Experience working in hybrid landscapes (inhouse and SaaS platforms)

Familiarity with financial markets, transaction reporting, or regulatory systems

Experience influencing DevOps standards beyond a single team