Global SRE - IT Continuity Expert Amsterdam

Are you a Business Continuity Manager with proven experience in IT with an excellent set of analytic, communication, and management skills? Can you prepare ING for Business Continuity incidents on a global scale to reduce customer impact to an absolute minimum? If you can answer both questions with yes, then this might be the job for you!

To fulfill your mission, you draw on your understanding of technology and the global ING organization. You work in a DevOps way, closely aligning with domain major incident managers and squads globally.

The Team

ING is a leading global bank, with retail & wholesale business around the globe. The SRE Global team is responsible to roll-out the global SRE practices to improve the reliability of ING’s critical services worldwide.

The IT Continuity team (BCM team) is responsible for the definition & roll-out of the BCM processes and IT Continuity practices across Tech. The Global Tech organisation provides all the global Tech services and tooling supporting our global engineering workforce. Within Tech the BCM team is a higly specialized team that prepares the ING organization for undesired severe incidents. In order to achieve this the BCM team creates inventories of possible business continuity treatening situations. Designs in coorperation with the different departments the crisis organization and processes to handle these incidents and also organize the test of effectiveness for these processes.

Role & Responsibilities

As member of the Global SRE BCM chapter; being a global expert in BCM within Tech, including applying BCM process within the Global Tech organization, development & roll-out of IT related controls, processes & practices which concentrate around IT Continuity plans & DR testing.

Develops, innovates, matures & implements the BCM & IT continuity processes & practices across ING, in cooperation with the entity-level SRE teams and Global/local (business) BCM teams. With the overall purpose to improve resilience of our critical IT & business services.

• Ensures correct implementation of the BCM process across Tech; as part of the business BCM process (e.g. in retail / wholesale entities) or the execution of the BCM process (e.g. for Global Tech entities like I&E, BTP, CISO and PSS) - business impact analysis & risk assessment, design of the BCM strategy, maintenance of the BCM calendar and training & awareness; development & testing of the Business Continuity Plans, development / implementation / testing of Crisis Management Plans.
• Defines the global standards for IT continuity plan development & testing for IT services, including datacenter disaster recovery testing.
• Ensures correct implementation of the BCM capabilities for Service Providers (captives & partners) across Tech as well as contingency plan development & testing for services classified as critical/important sourcing (based on Sourcing Policy)
• Specific assignment is to develop a consistent (datacenter) disaster recovery approach across our global tech platform providers & consumers (aka ‘provider-driven DR’).
• Ensures proper documentation, training material and other ways to get the knowledge to our engineers across ING. Sets the standards for the expert team and takes responsibility for developing, innovating and safeguarding knowledge in the field of expertise.
• Operate in strong cooperation with involved Enterprise Architects, entity SREs & engineers and the Global OpRes/BCM team.

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.

• 10-15+ Years in software engineering / IT operations and/or software architect roles.
• Knowledgeable about technology in all levels in the technology stack (from infrastructure to front-end, from CI/CD to observability tooling) on a high level.
• Preferred is hands-on experience with development of BCM/IT continuity within Tech e.g. development of continuity plans for Tech services and execution/coordination of datacenter down DR exercises and hands-on experience with implementation of IT risk controls.
• Broad understanding of technologies and consumer needs.
• Natural self-motivation and drive to take end-to-end ownership.
• Mindset of openness and willingness to try new ways of working.
• Curiosity to always look out for innovation opportunities.

Rewards & benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions at https:

• The benefits of working with us at ING include:
• A salary tailored to your qualities and experience
• 24-27 vacation days depending on the contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th-month salary
• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues
• Work Agile, so new ideas come to life faster

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us. Apply today.