Provide a brief description of the overall purpose of the position, why this position exists and how it will contribute in achieving the teams goal.
The ISPL PF APS team is being built to take IT production activities to the next level. Leveraging BNP Paribas Paris teams expertise and ISPL IT skills, the goal is to enable applications flawless production.
The mutualized APS team is meant to provide a set of added value technical services to 4 business lines, contributing to major IT challenges including infrastructure obsolescence management and infrastructure security updates, thus building a secure and stable production environment.
The ITOps/Production Engineer for the mutualized APS team will be primarily responsible for technical upgrades, actions on applications infrastructure and some security-related actions, including security and obsolescence patching, server decommissioning, access requests management, etc.
The position is primarily oriented towards technical actions; however, some coordination activities are also in the scope of the mutualised team to provide an end-to-end service.
To meet these challenges, the APS team will be using BNP Paribas procedures and processes defined by Paris teams or jointly defined with ISPL teams.
A strong relationship is also to be built between the PF APS team and dedicated business lines teams.
The teams scope will be expanded in the future beyond the first set of described activities depending on business applications needs and the overall BNP Paribas IT organisation.
Responsibilities
Direct Responsibilities
- Execute requested actions based on defined procedures and processes:
- Deploy OS & middleware Security/Technical Patches
- Knowledge on Kibana/ Elastic search
- Experience on API Management.
- Decommission un-used servers and middleware.
- Application/Infra Incident/Problem/Change Management
- Application releases and deployment
- Application/Infra Monitoring
- Application/Infra Automation
- Coordinate above actions with other teams, especially Paris APS & worldwide application development teams
Contributing Responsibilities
Technical & Behavioral Competencies - Should be autonomous, self-taught
- Able to collaborate with team,
- Must be more proactive, curious and proactive
- Strong Knowledge of ITIL
- Strong knowledge IT infrastructure
- Strong knowledge on Cloud technologies and experienced in Kubernetes & Containers
- Strong Knowledge & experience on technologies like RHEL Linux, Windows, AIX, WAS, CFT and MQ
- Experience with System Scripting on tech like Ansible, Shell Script, PowerShell, Terraform
- Familiarity with DevOps tooling DevOps (Gitlab, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube, Ansible)
- Familiarity with Scheduling tools like Autosys, Control M
- Familiarity with database technology is required: Oracle and SQL Server
- Good written and spoken English.
- Measure and identify areas for improving Quality and overall Delivery.
- Able to communicate efficiently.
- Good Team Player
Specific Qualifications (if required)
Skills Referential
Behavioural Skills : (Please select up to 4 skills)
Ability to collaborate / Teamwork
Personal Impact / Ability to influence
Attention to detail / rigor
Organizational skills
Transversal Skills:
Ability to understand, explain and support change
Analytical Ability
Ability to anticipate business / strategic evolution
Ability to inspire others & generate people's commitment
Ability to develop others & improve their skills
Education Level:
Bachelor Degree or equivalent
Experience Level
At least 5 years