Middleware Administrator

Position Purpose

IT HUB Bangalore by BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is designed to provide centralized IT services to CIB businesses globally, with a focus on innovation, agility, and efficiency. The scope is worldwide with teams located in main regions (Asia, India, Europe, Americas) and it covers the production maintenance of the platforms as well.
You will be part of a dynamic team of IT professionals and will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technologies and projects.
We combine our global expertise and our local presence to anticipate and adapt to any needs

. About the role:

We are looking for skilled and motivated individuals to join our newly created team in Bangaluru and be part of the Global CAAS & Middleware Production team within CIB IT PRODUCTION. CAAS & middleware team is in charge of building and running all CIB middleware, kubernets and openstack assets worldwide in a follow the sun mode. Asset management and licence management are key in this new governance model to control the compliance and optimize the TCO of the department. Particularly, around 10 000 IBM assets are deployed globally in CAAS department. To align IBM Product licence usage with IBM product licence acquirement, ILMT tool is used. The role of the ILMT expert will be • to operate this tool to guarantee the production of the report compliance to IBM. In this mission, his responsibility will be to patch / upgrade central servers in charge of producing compliance reports. To be sure that ILMT agents deployed in all servers are working and sending the appropriate information to the central servers • to share the compliance reports with the expert to define optimization plans to keep IBM licence footprint under controlled • to supervise the action plan with the experts The ILMT expert will be based in Bangalore, he will work closely with MQ and WebContainer experts based in AMER, EMEA, India and APAC. When this mission will be done, he will have the opportunity to work on other expertises and/or transversal topics inside CAAS team/ 5 to 10 years of experience in production environment are required; Upskilles are possible.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Asset management and licence management are key in this new governance model to control the compliance and optimize the TCO of the department.
• Particularly, around 10 000 IBM assets are deployed globally in CAAS department. To align IBM Product licence usage with IBM product licence acquirement.
• to operate ilmt to guarantee the production of the report compliance to IBM. In this mission, his responsibility will be to patch / upgrade central servers in charge of producing compliance reports.
• To ensure that ILMT agents deployed in all servers are working and sending the appropriate information to the central servers.
• To share the compliance reports with the expert to define optimization plans to keep IBM licence footprint under controlled
• To supervise the action plan with the experts The ILMT expert will be based in Bangalore, he will work closely with MQ and WebContainer experts based in AMER, EMEA, India and APAC

Contributing Responsibilities

• Unix and network knowledge
• Troubleshooting
• Relationships with vendors
• Functional ability to define a plan and manage it
• Skills as managing plan and involving expert

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

• English (mandatory)
• Expertise on high availability environments.
• Expertise on Linux/windows environments (admin skills are needed)
• Strong global Infrastructure knowledge (Clustering, Storage, Network, OS, …)
• Automation - scripting capabilities
• Ansible skills (or other automation skills)
• Team and collaborative working to develop and deliver appropriate solutions skills
• Customer service oriented skills
• Experience of delivering strategic priorities within strict timelines
• Experience on production environment and support
• Analytical mind-set
• Ability to work well under pressure, ability to work autonomous and in team environment
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Punctual travels to Madrid & Paris
• Devops methodologies
• Cloud experience