About BNP Paribas India Solutions:
Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Bengaluru, Chennai and Mumbai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. India Solutions services three business lines: Corporate and Institutional Banking, Investment Solutions and Retail Banking for BNP Paribas across the Group. Driving innovation and growth, we are harnessing the potential of over 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.
About BNP Paribas Group:
BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
At BNP Paribas, we passionately embrace diversity and are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees are valued, respected and can bring their authentic selves to work. We prohibit Discrimination and Harassment of any kind and our policies promote equal employment opportunity for all employees and applicants, irrespective of, but not limited to their gender, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, colour, national origin, age, religion, social status, mental or physical disabilities, veteran status etc. As a global Bank, we truly believe that inclusion and diversity of our teams is key to our success in serving our clients and the communities we operate in.
About Business line/Function:
The Team IT Middleware Integration is part of PI Germany, IT Application Production Support – Application Platform, and therefore responsible for all kind of (linux) business applications, and also some it4it- or infrastructure-applications. The main responsibility is the installation, integration, troubleshooting and support of (vm-based, linux) applications. Also a big part is to provide automation-solutions for the operated applications. A part of the team is located in Nuremberg and other part in Munich, and support B2C and B2B Systems.
The team consists of several sub-teams, Application Engineering, JobScheduling, Mailing/Logging, Monitoring and Telephony.
The Application Engineering sub team is responsible for setting up and integrating new business applications, and finally bringing them into production. Also the lifecycle of the used products (e.g. apache tomcat, httpd, jboss) is part of the job. As part of that team, a candidate is required, who can supports in troubleshooting and enhancing Application automation infrastructure, based on Ansible and Gitlab.
Job Title:
Ansible Automation Engineer
Date:
17-July-2025
Department:
IT APS – Application Platform
Location:
Chennai
Business Line / Function:
IT Middleware Integration
Reports to:
(Direct)
Grade:
(if applicable)
NA
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
NA
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
The Application Engineering Subteam is responsible for setting up and integrating new business applications, and finally bringing them into production. We are dealing with e.g. Apache Tomcat, Apache httpd, nginx, jboss EAP (all based on linux) and many other legacy applications. For the Move2Cloud project we are currently moving and porting our roles and playbooks into the Ansible Automation Platform, which is offered by the group, to provide a proper frontend for triggering application deployments. As part of that team, it is necessary to troubleshoot, develop and enhance our application automation infrastructure, based on Ansible Application Platform to provide a stable and error-free solution.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
- Installing, upgrading, maintaining our ansible based application automation environment, into the upcoming ansible automation platform solution
- Implementation of new roles based on the needs and requirements from either within the team or from other IT- or Business-teams
- Troubleshooting in case of errors due to the regular patching and lifecycle process
- Focusing on security related topics, like product-hardening, patching-cycles, vulnerability-avoidance
- Developing of additionally needed ansible plugins for our infrastructure (based on python)
- Integrating and maintaining ansible-based roles for other kinds of infrastructure, like F5 Load balancer, Monitoring, …
Contributing Responsibilities
- Providing support for the corresponding teams, which work with the automation infrastructure, i.e. IT Operations for deployment issues; Application Engineering for developing new plugins or enhancing existing ones, or also application development for providing background information in case of troubles with their pipelines and workflows
- Contacting the team(s) which are responsible for providing and running the application automation infrastructure and their components (the Ansible Automation Platform is offered by the group – so the technical contact persons are located there)
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Expertise in Ansible scripting is mandatory. Should have automated deployment processes through Ansible playbooks.
- Experience in Python scripting is added advantage.
- Good IT-knowledge in general, mainly Linux-Knowledge is needed
- Knowledge in Dynatrace could be helpful (for integrating playbooks, etc.)
- Knowledge of Linux Operating Systems (esp. RedHat Linux) administration
- Good experience in scripting / automation based on bash, python, Perl, ansible
- Good troubleshooting skills and logical way of thinking
- Good knowledge and experience in designing and developing ansible roles and corresponding python modules
- Good knowledge in other, infrastructure based components, like f5 load balancers, Firewalls, networks, ..
- Base knowledge in cloud-architecture and principles (to support the move 2 cloud project)
- In future maybe docker and Kubernetes knowledge could be an advantage
Specific Qualifications (if required)
- Successfully completed studies in computer science or business informatics or comparable knowledge and experience acquired through practical and IT training.
- Good knowledge and experience in Ansible and Rundeck and Gitlab automation
- Several years of professional experience in the IT application management or in the support of complex IT applications
- Advanced skills in Demand management and Software-Engineering
- Working with GitLab as source code versioning system
- Advanced linguistic proficiency in English
- Expert knowledge in cloud-architecture (Private-, Public- and Hybrid Cloud)
- Analytical skills
- Fundamental database technology knowledge (Oracle, PostgreSQL, …)
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
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Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
Analytical Ability
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Education Level:
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Experience Level
Atleast 5 years.
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
Competence : Minimum level of expertise ( 1=Base … 5=Expert )
Dynatrace : 1
Scripting skills : 3
Gitlab : 2
Ansible : 5
Jenkins : 3
Docker/Kubernetes : 1
Python Knowledge : 5
Cloud-Technologies : 2
Infra Components : 3
