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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.\nWhat You’ll Do (Role & Responsibilities)\n Reliability Governance: Define, track, and enforce Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and Error Budgets across development teams.\nArchitectural Review: Partner with software architects during the design phase to ensure new features comply with reliability, scalability, and security standards.\nDevelopment Quality Gates: Define and enforce quality gates within the CI/CD pipeline, ensuring no software is deployed to production without meeting reliability criteria.\nIncident & Problem Management: Oversee the post-mortem process, ensuring development teams prioritize bug fixes and architectural changes identified during incidents.\nChaos Engineering & Testing: Design chaos engineering scenarios and game days to validate system resilience, guiding developers on how to improve their code.\nToil Reduction Strategy: Analyze development workflows to identify systemic inefficiencies and guide teams on how to automate operations.\nWhat You’ll Need (Requirements)\n Experience: 4+ years of experience in Software Engineering, SRE, or Technical Product Management with a strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC).\n Technical Background: Solid understanding of distributed systems architecture, microservices, and cloud-native patterns (AWS, Azure, or GCP).\nProcess & Frameworks: Strong expertise in establishing SLOs/SLIs, error budget policies, and continuous improvement frameworks.\n Observability Knowledge: Familiarity with monitoring, logging, and tracing concepts (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog, OpenTelemetry) to review system health metrics.\nSoft Skills: Exceptional communication and negotiation skills. You must be comfortable influencing engineering practices and mentoring developers without direct authority.\nBonus Points (Nice to Have)\nExperience implementing ITIL, Agile, or DevOps practices at scale.\nCertification in Cloud Architecture or Agile Project Management.\nPrevious experience as a Tech Lead or Engineering Manager.\nContract offer:\nWorking conditions: Permanent employment contract\nWorking hours: Full time (37 hours per week)\nApplicable Collective Labour Agreement: National Collective Labour Agreement for employees in the credit sector (NCLA)\nLocation: Milan (hybrid)\nAnnual base salarystarting from: 48.000€\nVariable 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)\nOur compensation approach is built on objective, gender-neutral criteria aligned with the role’s 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.\nThe benefits of joining ING\nIn addition to being a part of a great team, working in a fun and innovative environment, we offer:\nFlexible Smart Working\nCompetitive base salaries and performance-based bonuses\nMeal vouchers and corporate restaurant and bar\nHealth insurance and Accident insurance\nPension fund and welfare plan\nDiverse cultures & Innovative mindsets\nInternational Environnent and Talent Program\nCommitment to sustainability\nLots of training development opportunities to help you grow\nLots of moments dedicated to physical and mental well-being\nA special day off when it is your birthday: we call it #doyourbirthday!\nAnd of course, we can’t forget free water & coffee at the office!\nAbout ING\nING 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 people’s potential. We don’t 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.\n#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.\n‘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.\nDo you think you are \"a step ahead\"? Apply now!\nOur Commitment\nDiversity 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.\nJob Application Safety Reminder\nWe’re seeing an increase in fraudulent job offers. To protect yourself, please follow these key guidelines when applying for roles at ING:\n·Apply only via official ING platforms: ING uses Workday as its internal recruitment system. Applications should be submitted only via our official career site.\n·Check the sender’s email carefully: legitimate communication will always come from: @ing.com and/or @myworkday.com\n·No payments or banking details will ever be requested. If someone asks for this information, it’s a scam.\nIf you suspect suspicious activity, reportit immediately. 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