About BNP Paribas Group:

BNP Paribas is a top-ranking bank in Europe with an international profile. It operates in 71 countries and has almost 199 000 employees. The Group ranks highly in its three core areas of activity: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking networks and financial services are grouped together under Retail Banking & Services) and Corporate & Institutional Banking, centered on corporate and institutional clients. The Group helps all its clients (retail, associations, businesses, SMEs, large corporate and institutional) to implement their projects by providing them with services in financing, investment, savings, and protection. In its Corporate & Institutional Banking and International Financial Services activities, BNP Paribas enjoys leading positions in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas and has a solid and fast-growing network in the Asia/Pacific region.

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, a leading bank in Europe 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 6000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions.

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 provide 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:

Firewall and Proxy Engineer

Date:

Oct-2025ss

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.  

·    Within the tribe IT Production Security, the squad Firewall & proxy Filtering Services is responsible for managing the firewalls& the proxies rules of the bank. The daily activities consist of validating the FW request, implementing new firewall rules, solving related incidents and putting secure solutions in place based on the business needs and security requirements.

Responsibilities

    You will participate in daily management of the ‘Tufin’ (Firewall) requests  

•    You will help solve incidents cause by firewall problems or security policies. 

•    You will contribute to project teams with your firewall technology experience.  

•    You will ensure that the firewall configurations stay in line with the BNP Paribas Fortis security policies and you will document them. 

•    You will manage all requests with respect of the security rules of the bank.

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

Mandatory: 

·    At least 5 years of relevant working experience

·    Experience with SNOW / or Tufin/ or Algosec

·    incident solving

·    Palo Alto or Fortinet

·    Experience in a firewall environment is highly appreceiated

o   Most mainframe system subsystems and their security (Spool, network, storage, SMF,…)

o   Public Key Infrastructure & the Mainframe CryptoCards

o   Unix System Service

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.