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:
BNP Paribas IT teams are providing infrastructure, development and production support services to all applications used worldwide by all business lines. There is a great variety of technologies and infrastructures from legacy systems to cutting edge Cloud technologies.
Within BNP Paribas Group IT, the filiere “FORTIS” oversees operationally to the challenges of IT applications with an end-to-end vision and consistently across the Bank. Several domains of these filiere contribute to this, including the domain “Service Offering DevOps”, which provides the DevSecOps platform for IT Group, Control Center, DB Activities and move to Cloud project.
BNP Paribas Fortis is a bank that is responsible and socially committed. The environment, diversity, cultural support, sponsorship... Through various and concrete ways, we are dedicated to meeting our customers’ expectations and proud to demonstrate our values: responsible, human, innovative and enthusiastic
Job Title:
Axway Infra Engineer
Date:
Department:
ITGP
Location:
Chennai
Business Line / Function:
BNPP Fortis
Reports to:
(Direct)
ISPL ITG OPS
Grade:
(if applicable)
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
Provide a brief description of the overall purpose of the position, why this position exists and how it will contribute in achieving the team’s goal.
As an API Gateway Engineer (B2B), The Application security squad within Agile Production Services Tribe will work together with the existing Web Design and Web Application Firewall squads for the technical design, installation, set-up, industrialization, management, support and documentation of the BNP Paribas Fortis Web Security Infrastructure
You will develop and maintain API’s for multiple customer centres within an efficient Agile SDLC for the API Management platform. You will work cross-functionally with Architects, Engineers, and Business Analysts, across multiple teams.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
- At least 2 years of experience in support of Axway API Gateway systems
- Design, deliver and support the integration layer between operating systems and business applications within distributed environments for B2B, B2C and Web information exchange solutions.
- Focuses on the integration of web application in the Web Infrastructure for the intranet as well as for the DMZ.
- Assist and active participation in production support (incident, problem and change management) for the Web Security squads.
- Help clients with digital transformation through API Management and API Security.
- Architect solutions with clients, based on best practices.
- Engineer API security policies and configure API Management.
- Deploy, configure, tune and monitor API Gateways.
- Complex policy development using policy studio, used team development feature to support CI-CD workflow, modify environment properties using scripts and configuration studio, created postman collections to support testing
- Produce customer-facing technical documentation.
- Assist technical support in troubleshooting customer issues.
- Proven experience in working collaboratively, coordinating among cross-functional teams and the ability to effectively work with organizational differences and priorities; consistently provide a clear and consistent technical vision to advance project goals.
Contributing Responsibilities
- Recent successful proven experience(s) in similar/comparable scope.
- Knowledge in web and application servers including Apache, WebSphere, experience with e-Commerce, intranet, and extranet development.
- Devops
- Good Understanding of KPS architecture and its relation with Cassandra.
- Setup API Gateway and API Manager.
- Basic knowledge JavaScript, or Groovy or of Core java.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Expert knowledge on web access security concepts
- Strong experience in security of Web Infrastructure in financial services
- Good and proven knowledge on: Web access management, Web authentication practices, PKI, certificates, OpenID Connect, OAuth, TLS, Federated Identity, Networking principles,…
- Generic knowledge on: anti-virus, firewalls, application firewalls, load balancers, networks, DMZ,…
- Experienced in Axway API Gateway Platform for version 7.5.x
- Should have hands of Knowledge on Axway API Gateway Policy Studio, API Manager, API Portal, API Analytics.
- Should have knowledge on REST, SOAP WebService
- Should have worked on oAuth, Open Id Connect, Mutual Authentication, Kerberos Authentication.
- Should have worked on API design, API Documentation.
- Should have exposure to create Policies based on data routing, URL rewrite, request and response conversion, IP whitelisting/blacklisting, Throttling, external connection with database (MySQL) etc.
- Securing the End Point with API Key, OAuth 2.0 (with JWT, Authorization code, client credentials, Implicit), SSL, Basic Authentication.
- API Gateway CI-CD Implementation using Jenkins and Gitlab.
- Good working knowledge in Linux environment·
Specific Qualifications (if required)
- Follows the Customer processes for projects, incident and change management.
- Being standalone and team worker, analytical minded, meet commitment, ability to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment, flexible, customer-oriented, understand risk awareness.
- Motivated self-starter, process-oriented with high attention to detail
- Quick self-starter, pro-active attitude.
- Good communication skills, Good analytical and synthesis skills.
- Autonomy, commitment, and perseverance.
- Ability to work in a dynamic and multicultural environment.
- Flexibility (in peak periods extra efforts may be required).
- Open minded and show flexibility in self-learning new technologies/tools.
- You are customer minded and can translate technical issues into non-technical explanations.
- You are always conscious about continuity of services.
- You have a very good team spirit and share your knowledge and experience with other members of the team. Working in collaboration with team.
- Client-oriented, analytical, initiative oriented and able to work independently.
- Be flexible and ready to provide support outside of Business hours (on-call).
- Able to take additional responsibility.
- Able to work from base location Chennai/Mumbai (Whichever is your base location) during hybrid model.
- You are flexible and ready to provide support outside of Business hours (on-call).
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Decision Making
Personal Impact / Ability to influence
Organizational skills
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Analytical Ability
Ability to manage a project
Ability to develop and adapt a process
Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
Education Level:
Master Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 5 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
