YOUR JOB IN A NUTSHELL

The IT Production Security department is dedicated to:

• Transforming security into a strategic value driver, enabling innovation while strengthening customer trust in our services.
• Embedding security from the outset by integrating it into the early design phases of products and services (secure by design).
• Anchoring security deeply in our corporate culture, making it a shared responsibility across the organisation.

As an IT Resiliency Engineer, you will join our dynamic, multidisciplinary IT Cyber Resiliency team, which ensures the Bank’s ability to respond swiftly and effectively to critical failures, whether in applications or data centres. In this role, you will contribute to implementing regulations set by authorities such as the European Central Bank, the National Bank of Belgium, and our Group Policies.

You will be part of a close-knit team of nearly 20 professionals, based in our central Brussels office.

AND IN DETAIL

You drive the Bank’s ability to respond and recover from critical application failures or cyber incidents through a range of key activities:

• Ownership of Resiliency Deliverables Partner with Application Owners to manage, validate, and track the development of:
  • Critical Recovery Run Books (CRB)
  • Disaster Recovery (DR) Unitary Exercise documentation
  • Gap analyses to ensure completeness and compliance.
• Tribe Resiliency Leadership Act as the primary contact for multiple tribes on all resiliency matters, with regular follow-ups on:
  • Infrastructure/application changes impacting deliverables.
  • Progress on CRBs and DR exercises.
• Transversal DR Exercises (Fortis & IT Group) Play a hands-on role in planning, validating, and executing large-scale DR exercises, including:
  • CRB validation and readiness assessments.
  • Detailed capacity studies for infrastructure across both data centers.
  • Stakeholder coordination (BNPPF & Group) to gather required inputs.
  • Risk identification & mitigation planning for exercises.
  • Master Run Book (MRB) development, consolidating actions from all CRBs.
  • On-site facilitation during DR exercises (including nights/weekends, ~3x/year).

YOUR TALENTS AND COMPETENCES

Experience & Education

• 3 to 5 years of relevant experience (or equivalent).

We value your expertise in one or more of the following domains:

• Windows, Linux
• Mainframe
• Cloud
• Application development, Databases
• Middleware
    

Tools & Software

• MS Office
• ServiceNow
    

Soft Skills & Mindset

• Proactive and driven: always alert and eager to explore.
• Collaborative: thrive in team settings and willingly share knowledge.
• Analytical: quick to identify connections and question assumptions.
• Resilient: perform effectively under pressure.
• Growth-oriented: continuously seek to improve through new technologies, methodologies, and self-development.
• Accountable: embrace responsibility and make confident decisions.
    

Languages

• Fluent in English (high proficiency required).
• Dutch/French (a plus).

WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER

Sustainability and impact  

We strongly believe in the positive impact that the financial sector can have on the world. BNP Paribas Fortis offers sustainable and responsible investment products and solutions and encourages social entrepreneurship. Together with our customers, we are working towards a better future every day.

DEVELOPMENT & CAREER PERSPECTIVES

We offer a wide range of training courses, workshops and webinars to choose from depending on your availability, interests and goals.

GOOD PLACE TO WORK

In addition to your remuneration and benefits (meal vouchers, insurance, holidays), we offer flexible salary options, allowing you to convert part of your salary into personalised benefits (phone use, IT equipment, transport, etc.).

OUR ENGAGEMENT

At BNP Paribas Fortis, we want to attract and retain all talent, whatever their gender, age, background or sexual orientation, and irrespective of whether they are living with a disability, as every person has their own experiences and their own identity. All of our full-time vacancies are also open to candidates wishing to work on an 80% or 90% full-time equivalent basis.

If the function is categorized as a banking services provider function (cf. Law of 22 April 2019 establishing an oath and a disciplinary regime for the banking sector), you will also need to provide us with a 'certificate of absence of professional ban' from the FSMA confirming that you are not professionally disqualified.

TEMPTED BY THE CHALLENGE?

A first selection is made based on your CV and motivation letter. Are we convinced that you are the right candidate? Then we will contact you.

Good luck!

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