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 & Frontend is part of PI Germany, IT Production – Application Services, and therefore responsible for all kind of (linux) business applications, and also some it4it- od infrastructure applications. The main responsibility is the installation, integration, troubleshooting and support of applications. Also a big part is to provide automation-solutions for the operated applications. We are a dual-located team, partly in Nuremberg and partly in Munich, and we support B2C and B2B Systems.
The team consists of several sub-teams, Application Engineering, JobScheduling, Mailing, Monitoring.
The Monitoring-subteam is responsible for the whole monitoring infrastructure, based on icinga and in dmzr on Dynatrace, including supporting systems like Grafana, Jenkins, Influxdb and the corresponding maintenance.
The Application Engineering-subteam 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.
For staffing a capability center we are searching for experienced specialists to supports us in
-enhancing our application automation infrastructure, based on ansible and on rundeck and gitlab.
-setup cloud-ready CI/CD flows based on group-wide provided technologies
-establish efficient E2E monitorings including automatic measures to resolve/recover follwing business needs
Job Title:
Application Management Monitoring and Application Engineering
Date:
31-03-2025
Department:
IT Production – Application Platform
Location:
Chennai
Business Line / Function:
IT Middleware Integration
Reports to:
(Direct)
Tech lead
Grade:
(if applicable)
5 / 6
(Functional)
Number of Direct Reports:
1
Directorship / Registration:
NA
Position Purpose
The monitoring-subteam is responsible for the whole monitoring infrastructure, based on icinga for on-premise and for the cloud-related assets based on Dynatrace, including supporting systems like Grafana, Jenkins, Influxdb and the corresponding maintenance. The team takes care on the overall application livecycle of the monitoring systems of PI Germany, which means they are responsible for installing, upgrading, maintaining all kinds of updates, patches, hotfixes, … In addition to that, they are direct contact for all kind of requests related to the monitoring infrastructure, i.e. service requests for adding/modifying systems, or modifying checks. They also take care of the used monitoring plugins, and also the used custom plugins.
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. Currently we are integrating our ansible scripts and roles into our rundeck solution, 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 and rundeck, to provide a stable and error-free solution.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
- Installing, upgrading, maintaining of all related software products and applications (icinga, Grafana, Jenkins, influxdb, … )
- Maintaining the usage of Dynatrace, it’s interfaces and related automations
- Maintaining of the overall monitoring configuration based on ServiceNow Tickets
- Maintaining the current installation in view of obsolescence, hotfixes, updates, patches, …
- Enhancing the current installation in view of future needs or business needs
And/or
- Installing, upgrading, maintaining our ansible based application automation environment, into our rundeck solution
- Implementation of new roles based on the needs and requirements from either ourself, 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 Loadbalancer, Monitoring, …
Contributing Responsibilities
- Providing support for the corresponding teams, which work with the monitoring infrastructure, i.e. ITO Pilotage (L1/L2) for Monitoring issues, alerts, notifications; Application Engineering for developing new plugins or enhancing existing ones, or also application development for providing background information regarding application monitoring or in case of troubles with their pipelines and workflows
- Contacting the group responsibles of the cloud monitoring infrastructure for alignment on their and our prerequisites and/or the team(s) which are responsible for providing and running the application automation infrastructure and their components
Technical & Behavioral Competencies
- Good it-knowledge in general, mainly Linux-Knowlegde is needed
- Advanced Linux Operating Systems (esp. RedHat Linux) Administration knowledge
- Good experience in scripting / Automation based on bash, python, perl, ansible, rundeck Jenkins
- Good troubleshooting skills and logical way of thinking
- Good knowledge and experience in different types of monitoring applications / environments, like Xymon, Icinga, Grafana, Influxdb, Dynatrace
- Good knowledge and experience in designing and developing ansible roles and corresponding python modules
- Good knowledge in other, infrastructure based components, like f5 loadbalancers, Firewalls, networs, ..
- Base knowledge in cloud-architecture and principles (in order to support the move 2 cloud project)
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 Jenkins automation
- 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
- Advanved 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, Postresql, …)
- Very good German and English language skills in word and writing
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Organizational skills
Client focused
Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving
Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)
Analytical Ability
Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
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Education Level:
Master Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 5 years
Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)
Competence
Linux administration
Scripting skills
Gitlab
Ansible
Jenkins
Rundeck
Python
Icinga
Dynatrace
Cloud-Technologies
Minimum level of expertise ( 1=Base … 5=Expert )
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3
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4
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5
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