SAS Viya DevOps Engineer

The VIYA4U squad is part of the Modelling tribe within the domain of COO Risk. The aim of the Modelling Tribe is to optimally manage and support the Risk modelling capabilities of ING. Risk models are crucial for the competitive advantage of ING. With highly performant Risk models, ING is able to make accurate predictions related to the probability of default of customers, for instance, and with that can make well informed decisions related to Business & Consumer Loans. The VIYA4U squad provisions state of the art tooling to support ING’s global Modelling community. The purpose is to deliver standardized and globally supported, high-performing, secure, compliant, reliable and scalable environments aligned with existing ING target infrastructure.

As a DevOps Engineer you will be part of the VIYA4U squad working for the Modelling Tribe.

We operate according to a Scrum Agile process and strongly believe in the BusDevOps approach to delivering IT solutions because operationally we work closely with our business stakeholders to support their activities. The focus is on anticipating needs and delivering secure, scalable, reliable, useable platforms on time using iterative development cycles with regular milestone demos and strong compliancy focus.

The team

The VIYA4U squad is an energetic, international team of highly qualified SAS Experts and DevOps engineers. You will join a team where the product is constantly evolving and introducing new features. The main platform is based SAS Viya 4.0 (containerized version of SAS Viya) on the Azure Cloud.

We are looking for an senior SAS Viya DevOps Engineer (SAS Viya Administrator) who would like to join us and strengthen the team with their technical know-how and a great attitude.

Roles and responsibilities

As a SAS Viya DevOps Engineer you will be part of the VIYA4U squad and in that role you will be responsible for the roll out, configuration, upgrade and maintenance of the underlying tooling based on SAS Viya 4.0 by applying CI/CD techniques and SRE principles.

• Analyze and Design features/solutions,

• Build code from scratch or maintain/extend existing implementations for provisioning, configuring, enhancing the Platform using CI/CD techniques in Azure DevOps,

• Test and execute deployment and rollback scripts in the Test & Acceptance environments,

• Apply Continuous Integration/ Delivery practices in the team: automated Build, Deploy, Test and maintenance of Continuous Delivery tooling and scripting,

• Continuously improve the automation of testing and deployment tools and activities,

• Arrange and operate Development, Test, Acceptance & Production environments,

• Realize non-functional requirements, for example regarding Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, risk, compliance and security, in line with existing policies and at all levels (OS, application),

• Apply version control and software configuration management

• Write test cases and test scripts as part of Automated Deployment, test applications in the Dev, Test & Acceptance environments and gather test evidences as required by the Change Management Procedures,

• Solve findings found during testing,

• Perform root cause analyses,

• Perform Support Hero Role along with other colleagues – Solve Incidents and Calls raised on the Platform,

• Understand any expected changes in behaviour after a specific release, and take appropriate action if actual behaviour is not in line with what was expected,

• Configure and implementing Monitoring Tooling to enable 24x7 monitoring using appropriate Event Alerts,

• Understand the detailed technical behaviour of your system under normal and peak loads,

• Understand the behaviour of your Application in failure scenarios, and drive improvements in line with ING’s Reliability objectives,

• Actively participate in the Agile/Scrum events of the team like Standups, Refinements, Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

We are looking for you, if you:

• are a team player, persistent, service-oriented, customer centric, eager to learn, an entrepreneur,

• love technology, searching for root causes of issues and incidents and come up with structural solutions,

• have 5+ years of software engineering experience, preferably in creating scalable,  secure, stable,  reliable platforms,

• You are able to develop and tune efficient and maintainable code with the right balance between solving the problem at hand and not over-engineering your solution,

• knowledge/experience of working on containerised platforms,

• have experience in infrastructure and application administration,

• have experience with integrating commercial off-the-shelf applications like SAS within complex domains,

• have extensive experience with operating and maintaining a SAS Viya 4.0 environment,

• have experience with working on Azure Cloud,

• have extensive experience with Ansible and Terraform (Yaml),

• have experience with CI/CD pipelines,

• have experience with scripting languages and automation of manual activities (testing, deployment,

• have good knowledge of implementation of security measures,

• have good English communication skills, verbal as well as written.

You'll get extra points for:

• knowledge of monitoring and alerting tooling or knowledge any of the following (Kibana, Logstash, Prometheus),

• good knowledge of security standards,

• experience in operating and maintaining databases.

You are a driven IT specialist with excellent analytical skills. You are ambitious with what you and your team want to achieve. You feel a personal responsibility for the quality of your application and its reliability, and you work together with your colleagues across your domain. You recognise problems and come up with structural solutions.

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract

• Pension scheme

• 13th month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Hybrid working

• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities

• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

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