We are looking for an SRE Specialist with a strong focus on Development to join our team. In this role, you will not spend your days writing infrastructure code. Instead, you will act as a strategic partner and quality gatekeeper for our software development teams. You will ensure that reliability, scalability, and observability are engineered into our software products right from the initial design phase.

What Youll Do (Role & Responsibilities)

• Reliability Governance: Define, track, and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets across development teams.
• Architectural Review: Partner with software architects during the design phase to ensure new features comply with reliability, scalability, and security standards.
• Development Quality Gates: Define and enforce quality gates within the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring no software is deployed to production without meeting reliability criteria.
• Incident & Problem Management: Oversee the post-mortem process, ensuring development teams prioritize bug fixes and architectural changes identified during incidents.
• Chaos Engineering & Testing: Design chaos engineering scenarios and game days to validate system resilience, guiding developers on how to improve their code.
• Toil Reduction Strategy: Analyze development workflows to identify systemic inefficiencies and guide teams on how to automate operations.

What Youll Need (Requirements)

• Experience: 4+ years of experience in Software Engineering, SRE, or Technical Product Management with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).
• Technical Background: Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and cloud-native patterns (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Process & Frameworks: Strong expertise in establishing SLOs/SLIs, error budget policies, and continuous improvement frameworks.
• Observability Knowledge: Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and tracing concepts (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry) to review system health metrics.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional communication and negotiation skills. You must be comfortable influencing engineering practices and mentoring developers without direct authority.

Bonus Points (Nice to Have)

• Experience implementing ITIL, Agile, or DevOps practices at scale.
• Certification in Cloud Architecture or Agile Project Management.
• Previous experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager.

Contract offer:

Working conditions: Permanent employment contract

Working hours: Full time (37 hours per week)

Applicable Collective Labour Agreement: National Collective Labour Agreement for employees in the credit sector (NCLA) / National Collective Labour Agreement for executives in the credit sector

Location: Milan (hybrid)

Annual base salary: 48.000

Variable remuneration: in line with the applicable remuneration policies(with a target based on the role, outcomes linked to the Group, Business line/function, and individual performance)

Our compensation approach is built on objective, gender-neutral criteria aligned with the roles core requirements. That said, we believe talent goes beyond any framework: your total reward package will be tailored to reflect your unique experience, skills, and potential, ensuring we fully recognize the value you bring.

The benefits of joining ING

In addition to being a part of a great team, working in a fun and innovative environment, we offer:

• Flexible Smart Working
• Competitive base salaries and performance-based bonuses
• Meal vouchers and corporate restaurant and bar
• Health insurance and Accident insurance
• Pension fund and welfare plan
• Diverse cultures & Innovative mindsets
• International Environnent and Talent Program
• Commitment to sustainability
• Lots of training development opportunities to help you grow
• Lots of moments dedicated to physical and mental well-being
• A special day off when it is your birthday: we call it #doyourbirthday!
• And of course, we cant forget free water & coffee at the office!

About ING

ING offers many opportunities to build a diverse and rewarding career. You will be joining an international innovative digital bank, the first in Italy to adopt a fully flexible smart working model, and you will be working in a stimulating environment where you can grow both as an individual and as a professional. Our purpose - empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business - represents our belief in peoples potential. We dont judge, coach or to tell people how to live their lives. We empower people and businesses to realize their own vision for a better future.
#doyourthing is our brand direction with us each and every day. It is how we articulate our purpose and our promise to make banking frictionless to the world.
do your thing is about people being free to live the life they want to live, knowing that they will make their world a little better for it.
Do you think you are "a step ahead"? Apply now!

The benefits of joining ING

In addition to being a part of a great team, working in a fun and innovative environment, we offer:

Super flexible smart working

Competitive base salaries and performance based bonuses

Diverse cultures & Innovative mindsets

International Environment

Commitment to sustainability

Lots of training development opportunities to help you grow

Lots of moments dedicated to physical and mental well-being

A special day off when it is your birthday: we call it #doyourbirthday!

And of course we cant forget: free water & coffee at the office! 

Our Commitment

Diversity is a fundamental element of our corporate culture, and we are fully committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment, based on mutual respect and the value of diversity, offering equal job opportunities to all qualified candidates.

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