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:

IT Continuity & Resilience Engineer (Security Focus)

Date:

Sep 2025

Department:

ITGP

Location:

Chennai /Mumbai

Business Line / Function:

BNPP FORTIS

Reports to:

(Direct)

ISPL ITG OPS

Grade: 

(if applicable)

Associate to Senior Associate 

(Functional)

ITGP/FORTIS

Number of Direct Reports:

NA

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

As IT Resiliency Engineer, you will join the enthusiastic and multidisciplinary 
IT Continuity team. 

Together, you are responsible to ensure our Bank ability to react to a critical failure of an application or a datacenter. Within BNPPF, you collaborate to the embedding of rules defined by Regulators such as the European Central Bank, Belgium National Bank & our Group Policies.

• You are responsible of a set of activities ensuring our reactivity during a critical application failure.
• In collaboration with the Application owner, you manage and follow-up the delivery and validation of Application Impact Analysis (AIA), Continuity Run Book (CRB), Disaster Recovery (DR) Unitary Exercise documents and the potential gaps in those deliverables.
• You are the main contact for several tribes for all resiliency topics.
• You make recurrent follow-up with our squad Continuity contacts on:
  • Changes within their infra and application landscape impacting one of the deliverables.
  • Progress on AIA, CRB, DR Unitary Exercises
• You contribute to the Fortis & IT Group transversal DR exercises:
  • Validation of the CRB and their readiness.
  • Detailed capacity study for all the infrastructure components involved within our two data centers.
  • Close collaboration with our different stakeholders (BNPPF and Group) to prepare and collect required information.
  • Plan the DR exercises by identifying risks and preparing a mitigation plan
  • Help to build the Master Run Book (MRB), collection all actions from all needed CRBs.

Responsibilities

You will join the IT Production Security department; its mission is to : 

• Transform security into a strategic value-driver (i.e., enable innovation and enhance customers’ trust in our services)
• Have security integrated in the early design phase of products and services ('secure by design')
• Root security deeply in our corporate DNA
• Validate the resiliency of our service and solutions

·       As part of the Agile Impulse organization, the Security Filiere provides best-in-class security capabilities ready to be used by the other Constructs.

You’re the physical embodiment of the scrum values: involvement, focus, openness, and respect, with a good dose of courage to boot.

• You’re inquisitive and driven—and you’re always on the ball.
• You thrive in a team environment, happily sharing your knowledge and insights.
• You are quick to make connections and dare to question everything that deserves it.
• You’re able to work under pressure. 
• You always search to improve yourself by learning new technologies, methodologies and/or how to be a better you.
• You are excited by having responsibilities, making decisions & vulgarizing them.

You know your way around:

• Technology landscape  (distributed platform / mainframe platform) 
• Stakeholder management
• Communication best practice
• Architecture and technical diagrams and can review / validate them on resiliency topics
• Process, procedures and how important they are

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

·       Mandatory Skills:

o   Windows, Linux OS (Nice to have)

o   Basics of Mainframe (Nice to have) 

o   Focus on Infra (Must have) 

o   Continuity and resiliency (Impact analysis, DC Swap -Must have) 

o   Stakeholder management (Good English). 

o   Cloud – Basics about Architecture, Ports, Services.

o   Databases - Oracle DB, 19c, SQL.

o   Middleware – MQ & File transfer

o   Basic knowledge and understanding of computer networking (Routing and routers, DNS and IP firewall)

·       Good to have:  Agile experience.

·       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.

·       Highly skilled in project management & lifecycle, motivated self-starter, process-oriented with high attention to detail

·       Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and flexibility to accommodate demanding projects schedules, strong interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral) and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.

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.