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Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland
Hybrid
As Tribe Lead Global Infrastructure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you will set the direction for our compute
(virtual server and Container) and storage platforms that power ING’s technology landscape, helping teams
across the bank build secure, resilient and scalable services. This is a rare opportunity to influence enterprise wide strategy, lead large-scale transformation and build a future-ready infrastructure ecosystem used across
multiple countries.
The team
You will form part of the Global Infrastructure management team. Global Infrastructure is the technology
backbone of ING, providing the platforms, networks, cloud services, and core technology foundations that power
digital banking across the world. Automation & Orchestration sits at the heart of this landscape, defining how
infrastructure is designed, automated, secured, and operated at scale.
You will lead a global tribe of around 320 engineers and technology leaders. The tribe owns compute, containers, storage, artefacts and ransomware resilience platforms that form the foundation of ING’s technology environment. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will drive platform convergence,
innovation and adoption across the bank while fostering a culture of collaboration, ownership, learning and engineering excellence.
Roles & Responsibilities
In this role, you will lead the strategy, transformation and performance of ING’s global IaaS portfolio by
delivering outcomes that create long-term value for the organisation.
Leading the enterprise-wide vision and roadmap for compute, storage, artefacts and ransomware resilience platforms.
Driving platform standardisation and convergence across ING, enabling secure and scalable infrastructure consumption.
Transforming the IaaS portfolio through innovation, automation and disciplined product lifecycle management.
Overseeing strategic investments, financial performance, risk and regulatory compliance.
Building trusted partnerships with senior stakeholders and accelerating enterprise adoption of strategic platforms.
Embedding a product-led operating model across infrastructure services, ensuring platforms are managed through clear customer outcomes, adoption measures, value creation and lifecycle accountability.
Developing high-performing engineering teams while strengthening craftsmanship and capability growth.
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.
Leadership Profile
Strategic thinker with a strong external perspective and a proven ability to turn vision into results.
Trusted and influential leader who drives alignment across diverse stakeholders, builds strong partnerships,
and mobilises people towards common goals
Developer of talent and builder of strong, inclusive teams that consistently perform and grow.
Courageous decision-maker who thrives in complexity and drives progress with clarity and confidence.
Accountable leader who combines commercial acumen with a relentless focus on customer, people and business outcomes.
Leader who leads with courage, integrity, and accountability, especially during periods of change and complexity.
Authentic role model who leads with integrity, self-awareness, and a genuine commitment to learning and continuous improvement
Creates an environment where people feel engaged, valued and empowered to succeed.
Competencies & Skills
Bring deep experience leading large-scale infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering, or technology operations organisations in complex international environments.
Use data and insights to drive decisions, assessing complex information, identifying trends and opportunities, and turning analysis into clear actions and measurable outcomes.
Lead large-scale technology transformation, managing change effectively while maintaining service stability, performance and business continuity.
Champion secure and resilient technology environments, ensuring infrastructure solutions meet regulatory,
compliance, risk and cyber security requirements.
Demonstrate strong commercial and financial acumen, making informed investment decisions, managing
budgets effectively and optimising technology spend to maximise value.
Drive strategic planning and execution, anticipating future technology needs and building roadmaps that
strengthen organisational capability and readiness.
Adapt quickly to emerging technologies and changing business needs.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Technical Skills
Functional emphasis: Platform strategy, compute/storage/container lifecycle, ransomware resilience, investment management and standardisation.
Compute platforms: virtualisation, private cloud, VM lifecycle, server infrastructure and capacity models (preferred VMware VCF9 based).
Container platforms: Kubernetes / OpenShift concepts, cluster lifecycle, workload placement and platform resilience. (preferred VMware VCF9 based).
Storage technologies: block, file and object storage, replication, backup/restore and performance tiers.
Artefact and repository management: binary repositories, container registries and supply-chain controls.
Ransomware resilience: immutable backup, cyber recovery vaults, isolation patterns and recovery testing.
Hybrid cloud infrastructure: integration between on-prem platforms, public cloud and landing zones.
Capacity and performance management: forecasting, utilisation and cost/performance trade-offs.
Infrastructure lifecycle standardisation: platform convergence, decommissioning and technical debt reduction.
Note: Tribe Lead level technical fluency — intended for direction-setting, architectural challenge, risk governance, investment steering and senior engineering leadership; not a hands-on engineer requirement.
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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