Senior Associate - ITOps/Production Engineer

Position Purpose

The ISPL PF APS team is being built to take IT production activities to the next level. Leveraging BNPParibas 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 BNPParibas 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 team's scope will be expanded in the future beyond the first set of described activities depending on business applications needs and the overall BNPParibas IT organisation.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Execute requested actions based on defined procedures and processes:

1. Deploy OS & middleware Security/Technical PatchesDecommission un-used servers and middleware.Application/Infra Incident/Problem/Change ManagementApplication releases and deploymentApplication/Infra MonitoringApplication/Infra AutomationCloud/Kubernetes Administrations

• Coordinate above actions with other teams, especially Paris APS & worldwide application development teams.

Contributing Responsibilities

• Contribute to the knowledge transfer with Paris APS teams.Contribute to the definition of procedures and processes necessary for the team.Help build team spirit and integrate into BNP Paribas culture.Contribute to the regular activity reporting and KPI calculation.Contribute to continuous improvement actions.Contribute to the acquisition by ISPL team of new skills & knowledge to expand its scope.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• Strong Knowledge of ITILStrong knowledge IT infrastructureStrong knowledge on Cloud technologies and experienced in Kubernetes & ContainersStrong Knowledge & experience on technologies like RHEL Linux, Windows, AIX, WAS, CFT and MQExperience with System Scripting on tech like Ansible, Shell Script, PowerShell, TerraformFamiliarity with DevOps tooling DevOps (Gitlab, Artifactory, Jenkins, SonarQube, Ansible)Familiarity with Scheduling tools like Autosys, Control MFamiliarity with database technology is required: Oracle and SQL ServerGood 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

BehaviouralSkills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Ability to deliver / Results driven

Communication skills - oral & written

Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving

Transversal Skills:(Please select up to 5 skills)

Choose an item.

Analytical Ability

Ability to develop and adapt a process

Ability to understand, explain and support change

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

Education Level:

Bachelor Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 5 years

Other/Specific Qualifications(if required)