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 specialized 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, corporate 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 Server Infrastructure team is responsible for supervising, monitoring, and developing the Server of the regional Hub of BNP Paribas in the India region, liaising with BNP Paribas Head Offices where all major banking applications are hosted. Server Team activities plays a major role in the structure of processes that govern decision making around IT investment, client and supplier’s relationships, project management.
Job Title:
Windows Team Senior Engineer
Date:
January 2025
Department:
ITIP – Digital Platforms
Location:
Bangalore
Business Line / Function:
IT Production
Reports to:
(Direct)
Grade:
(if applicable)
Tech Lead
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
NA
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
We are looking for skilled and motivated individuals to join our global CIB infrastructure Windows teams (Madrid, APAC, AMER, MEA, INDIA) to define strategy and ensure global alignment
Profile demanded: L3/senior profile.
This position focuses in the management of the Windows Servers farm in BNP PARIBAS.
This infrastructure offers service to thousands of virtual servers and hundreds of physical ones. As part of your role, you have to contribute to preserve the required performance for a very demanding service with many critical services running on it. In addition, you have to contribute to keep a high availability environment.
Due to large number of assets to manage, to do it via scripting is key for being able to manage all infrastructure.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
· Vulnerability and obsolescence remediation, proactive improvements and action plan for incidents are part of the day to day of this position.
· contribute to preserve the existing architecture and keep the necessary controls to allow the users the necessary access to their servers.
· High reactivity, proactive improvements and capacity to follow plan action linked to new project and/or incident remediation are part of the day to day tasks
· To work following ITIL methodology is part of the daily basis in this and the rest of IT areas.
· Support and troubleshooting on Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019
· Scripting (Powershell)
· Developing (C# or other object oriented language)
· Knowledge in Active Directory: GPO’s, Kerberos, DNS.
· Experience in Security patching activities.
· Experience with different hypervisors: Vmware, Hyper-V, Openstack
· Strong skills working with physical servers from different vendors: Dell, IBM, HP, etc…
· Tickets resolution through incidents, problems and different requests from the clients or other infrastructure teams
· Participating, on a punctual basis, on specific projects related to your specialty
· Participating in standby on-call 7x24 (1 week per month).
· Be customer oriented
· Be independent and proactive
Contributing Responsibilities
The Digital Platform domain within the CIB ITO PRODUCTION entity is in charge of the following scopes:
• IAAS (Infrastructure As A Service): Server / OS / Storage / Backup / Virtualization
• CAAS (Container As A Service): Containers / Middleware / Sharepoint
• PAAS (Platform As A Service): Databases / Data Analtics
• Infrastructure Services: Micro segmentation / Load Balancing / API gateway / Automation
• Risk & Improvement: Obsolescence / Security / Continuous improvement / ITIL Process
• For this position you will be integrated into the IAAS-Windows team made up of around twenty EMEA people and in charge of products and services around MS Windows technologies in a Production environment.
•Work as a member of a team, adhere to corporate standards and change management processes, and work to improve IT standards and policies.
•Proficient in English.
•Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
Business skills:
- Architecture (Mastered)
- Knowledge of Data (Mastered)
- IT development (Mastered)
- Computer tests (Expert)
- IT infrastructure (Expert)
- Management of production operations (Expert)
- Computer security and cyber security (Mastered)
- IT / Business Relations (Mastered)
Transversal skills:
- Analytical capacity (Expert)
- Ability to lead a meeting, a seminar, a committee, a training session, etc. (Mastered)
- Ability to understand, explain and lead change (Mastered)
- Ability to define relevant performance indicators (Mastered)
- Ability to work with Agile methods (Mastered)
Behavioral skills:
- Ability to share/transmit knowledge (Expert)
- Be results oriented (Expert)
- Creativity & Innovation / Ability to solve problems (Expert)
- Ability to collaborate / teamwork (Expert)
- Develop and maintain system documentation, including configuration guides, and standard operating procedures. - Direct and be responsible for the implementation effort.
- Provide technical guidance and mentorship to team members.
- Assess demand for their service or technology area and develop plans to meet future capacity needs and makes recommendations to the manager.
- Aware of all critical changes to infrastructure and applications that could impact service delivery to their business customers.
- Able to work autonomously and as part of a team using strong analytical skills.
- Be service oriented, customer focused, positive, committed and have an enthusiastic “can do” attitude.
- Demonstrate a systematic and logical approach to problem-solving.
- Able to follow the bank’s standards, processes, and procedures.
- Escalating incidents internally or to 3rd party partners when required.
- ITIL 4 Foundation qualification.
Requirements [only in bullet points, technical & leadership & soft skills, nice to haves etc. on the same place, no splits]. Example:
· English (mandatory)
· Experience working on big environments >1000 servers Physical & Virtual
· Experience working with Antivirus agents and ePo
· Clustering skills with Microsoft & Veritas clusters
· Management of SAN disks on windows servers
· Knowledge with SQL
· Knowledge of Ansible and Ansible Tower
· Eager to learn
· Analytical mind-set
· Ability to work well under pressure, ability to work autonomous and in team environment
· Good interpersonal and communication skills.
Specific Qualifications (if required)
Microsoft Certification
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Communication skills - oral & written
Client focused
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 develop others & improve their skills
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 12 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
Participating in standby 7x24 as per the requirement
Evaluate emerging system technologies and align their benefits with the business strategy of BNPP.
