Middleware Engineer

About BNP Paribas Group:

Worldwide, BNP Paribas has a presence in 74 countries with more than 190,000 employees. It has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail-banking networks and financial services are covered by Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. In Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas is one of the best-positioned international financial institutions with an uninterrupted presence since 1860. Currently with over 15,000 employees* and a presence in 14 markets, it provides clients with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs, and continues to develop its franchise in the region.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas Group, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. With delivery centers located in Mumbai and Chennai, we are a 24x7 global delivery center. We partner various business lines of BNP Paribas such as Corporate and Institutional Banking, Wealth Management, Retail Banking through three verticals - Information Technology, Operations and Finance Shared Services.

About Businessline/Function :

For 150 years, BNP Paribas Wealth Management has been committed to protecting clients’ wealth, developing it, and eventually passing it on to their loved ones. We deliver tailor-made experience, with outstanding attention to detail and expertise from precise local knowledge to the global know-how that we access from the Group. Our goal is to create a new wealth management experience fit for a world where digital interactions have come to enhance human ones. Wealth Management Investment Solution Hub (WMIS Hub) provides a global IT solution for BNP Paribas Wealth Management where we develop, maintain and evolve IT applications which fits to the specific needs of BNP Paribas Wealth Management business users

Job Title:

Middleware Engineer

Date:

Department:

Production & Engineering

Location:

Chennai

Business Line / Function:

Wealth Management Global Hub

Reports to:

(Direct)

Grade: 

(if applicable)

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

Directorship / Registration:

Position Purpose

As a Middleware Engineer, you will be Working within a team of like-minded professionals to plan, deploy, and maintain critical business applications

Responsibilities

As a Middleware Engineer you will be in charge of the following activities :

·       Provisioning of servers using Ansible / Terraform

·       Deployment of applications using Ansible

·       Implementation of Monitoring

·       Documentation

·       Troubleshooting

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Qualification & Experience: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or computer engineering
• At least 5+ years of experience in IT landscape
• At least 3+ years of hands-on experience with WebSphere/Tomcat /Apache
• At least 1+ years of experience with Kubernetes
• At least 1+ years of hands-on experience with Ansible or terraform
• At least 1+ years of hands-on experience with a Cloud provider (IBM/AWS/Azure/Google)

Mandatory

• Strong background in Linux / Unix/ Windows Administration
• Strong critical thinking
• Good knowledge of onboarding & troubleshooting applications on Kubernetes 
• Good knowledge in any one scripting language (Python and/or Bash preferred)
• Good Knowledge in deployment automation tools (Ansible or equivalent)
• Good Expertise on IBM WebSphere v8 or Tomcat v8.5 and Apache v2.4 
• Good Expertise on IBM sFTP,CFT or equivalent 
• Basic Experience in DB Administration (Oracle, MS SQL, Mongo DB)

Good to have

• Knowledge on Job Scheduling Tools (Autosys or equivalent)
• IBM MQ V7/V8 Administration
• Kafka Administration
• Monitoring and Centralized logs tools (Splunk/ Sysdig/ dynatrace..)

Specific Qualifications (if required)

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or computer engineering

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Communication skills - oral & written

Attention to detail / rigor

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and adapt a process 

Ability to manage a project

Analytical Ability

Ability to manage / facilitate a meeting, seminar, committee, training…

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 to 10 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)