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Mainframe Security Engineer

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:

Mainframe Security Expert 

Date:

Dec 2024

Department:

ITGP

Location:

Chennai 

Business Line / Function:

BNPP FORTIS

Reports to:

(Direct)

ISPL ITG 

Grade: 

(if applicable)

(Functional)

FORTIS

Number of Direct Reports:

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The BNP Paribas Fortis IT department is working in Agile mode, which offers a challenging and motivating environment where teams and employees are empowered to manage their own technical domain.  

You will work in the IT Security Production Tribe, within the squad Mainframe System Security. Our stakeholders and partners can be part of the business, the rest of the local IT or the  BNP Paribas IT Group. 

The Mainframe System Security squad manages the support and services in following risk- and security-related domains: 

  • Authentication 
  • Authorization and provisioning 
  • ·      Security configuration and the monitoring of the configuration 
  • Risk management 
  • Security monitoring

Responsibilities

Some of the main activities in the squad are: 

  • Manage the content of the RACF Database, either manually or by automation. This includes managing the certificates on the mainframe. 
  • ·       Create and manage security standards and see to their application.
  • ·       Manage the security of most mainframe system components in accordance with the role-based setup of the security.
  • ·       Design, implement and document new programs and jobs and maintain existing programs, jobs and documentation to support the processes managed by the squad. 
  • ·       Contribute to improvement initiatives as Critical Asset Recovery, DORA, Group Security Standard implementation,  ... 
  • ·       Advice clients on the correct security setup  and help them to realize this 
  • ·       Third line security support and incident response, related to authentication, authorization or general security issues.   
  • ·       Participation in squad on-call to resolve critical job-failures that occur outside business hours.  ( +/- 1 week per month covering the non-business hours including weekend and holidays in that week) 
  • Risk management:
  1. Take necessary actions to close risks. 
  2. Contribution to audit campaigns and control plans.
  3. Reporting to management and other stakeholders. 

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Technical Experience:

  • ·    Proven experience on the Mainframe in general 
  • ·    Proven experience in the Mainframe Security domain (Security Administrator)

Mandatory: 

Expert knowledge of  

  1. RACF and the surrounding utilities 
  2. The Mainframe Architecture in general 

Solid knowledge of  

  1. Basic Mainframe Tools (JCL, ISPF, REXX, SDSF, …) 
  2. Role Based Security Modelling 
  3. AT-TLS & Certificates 

Basic knowledge of  

  1. The security of DB2, IMS (database and transaction management) and MQ 

 Job Scheduling 

  1. Most mainframe system subsystems and their security (Spool, network, storage, SMF,…) 
  2. Public Key Infrastructure & the Mainframe CryptoCards 
  3. Unix System Service

Preferable –

  • Knowledge of zSecure product suite 
  • ·    Knowledge of the job scheduler Control-M 
  • Knowledge of COBOL 
  • Knowledge of Endevor 

Specific Qualifications (if required)

  • Agile environment 
  • 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

Communication skills - oral & written

Organizational skills

Client focused

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Ability to develop and adapt a process 

Ability to develop others & improve their skills

Ability to set up relevant performance indicators

Ability to manage a project

Education Level: 

 Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years

  • Other/Specific Qualifications (if required): Able to understand bank related business processes and assess impacts on business, Agile methodology.








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