About BNP Paribas Group:

Established in 2005, BNP Paribas India Solutions is a wholly owned subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA, European Union’s leading bank 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 10000 employees, to provide support and develop best-in-class solutions. 

About BNP Paribas India Solutions:

BNP Paribas is the European Union’s leading bank and key player in international banking. It operates in 65 countries and has nearly 185,000 employees, including more than 145,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main fields of activity: Commercial, Personal Banking & Services for the Group’s commercial & personal banking and several specialised businesses including BNP Paribas Personal Finance and Arval; Investment & Protection Services for savings, investment, and protection solutions; and Corporate & Institutional Banking, focused on corporate and institutional clients. Based on its strong diversified and integrated model, the Group helps all its clients (individuals, community associations, entrepreneurs, SMEs, corporates and institutional clients) to realize their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance. In Europe, BNP Paribas has four domestic markets: Belgium, France, Italy, and Luxembourg. The Group is rolling out its integrated commercial & personal banking model across several Mediterranean countries, Turkey, and Eastern Europe. As a key player in international banking, the Group has leading platforms and business lines in Europe, a strong presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific. BNP Paribas has implemented a Corporate Social Responsibility approach in all its activities, enabling it to contribute to the construction of a sustainable future, while ensuring the Group's performance and stability. 

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 :

At PI Germany IT Solutions we provide modern development services and IT products that our consumers can use. This includes Frontend Applications like Web, Mobile or other fat client applications and furthermore, we develop and maintain necessary middleware applications and API products which can be used by internal or external customers. 

In addition, we integrate and maintain 3^rd party components, products into our solutions and providing additional services to business departments to archive the overall business objectives of BNPP PI Germany 

Job Title:

Infrastructure Engineer

Date:

06-04-2025

Department:

IT Production – Application Platform

Location:

Chennai

Business Line / Function:

IT Cloud Foundation

Reports to:

(Direct)

Grade: 

(if applicable)

5 / 6

(Functional)

Number of Direct Reports:

1

Directorship / Registration:

NA

Position Purpose

The Team IT Cloud Foundation is part of PI Germany, IT Production – Application Services. The team is mainly responsible for the run and maintenance of a container platform, VMware platform as well as build tools like GitLab or Nexus. All of those applications are provided as a service to the customers. We see tribes or other teams in this case as our costumer. Along with the run and maintenance of those applications, the team is in charge of the whole automation ecosystem. Since end of 2023, we are also working with the internal cloud service dMZR. We are a dual-located team, distributed between Nuremberg and Munich.

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The VMware-subteam is responsible for the run and maintenance of a VMware cluster used for the VoIP environment. Tasks like patching and upgrading are part of the daily work.

Beside the self-run cluster we have some clusters run by BP2I. On this cluster we run around 4000 virtual machines for the whole company. Our main focus in this topic is to develop an automation based on VMware Aria Automation and Orchestrator. Furthermore, we are in charge of the integration of dMZR resources based on Custom Resources in VMware Aria Autoation.

The main focus of this position is to ensure a high-avaiable run of our VMware platform. In addition, the position has to improve our automation ecosystem based on VMware.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

-          Maintenance including patching and upgrading of the VMware cluster (ESXi, vCenter)

-          Handling of daily tasks like provisioning and modification of virtual machines 

-          Further development of VMware automation processes with VMware Aria Automation and Orchestrator 

-          Maintenance including patching and upgrading of all VMware Aria Suite components like Orchestrator or Lifecycle Manager

-          Troubleshooting of problems regarding virtual machines, the self-managed VoIP ESXi cluster and automation process based on VMware Aria Suite

-          Managing incidents related to cloud provisioning

-          Take-over coordination for small demands from other teams (e.g. rebalancing of virtual machines, DR excercises, …)

-          Know-how transfer for automation processes usage

-          Contribute to the internal cloud automation process with Terraform, GitLab CI and/or Hashicorp Vault

Contributing Responsibilities

-          Providing support for the corresponding teams, which work with the automation processes like IT Operationg

-          Working close together with the BNP group to get information about the internal cloud solution

Technical & Behavioral Competencies

-          Good Linux-knowledge

-          Good knowledge in VMware ESXi and vCenter

-          Experience in maintaining a self-hosted VMware ESXi cluster

-          Basic knowledge in Infrastructure as Code with Terrafrom

-          Basic knowledge in automation via GitLab CI

-          Good troubleshooting skills and logical way of thinking

-          Good automation skills based on VMware VMware Aria Automation and Orchestrator

-          Good experience in scripting with Bash, Python and JavaScript

-          Experience in mananging code with Git (SCM)

-          Basic knowledge in cloud architecture

Specific Qualifications (if required)

-          English fluent in spoken and written

Skills Referential

Behavioural Skills: (Please select up to 4 skills)

Ability to collaborate / Teamwork

Communication skills - oral & written

Client focused

Creativity & Innovation / Problem solving

Transversal Skills: (Please select up to 5 skills)

Analytical Ability

Ability to develop and adapt a process 

Ability to understand, explain and support change

Choose an item.

Choose an item.

Education Level: 

 Master Degree or equivalent

Experience Level

At least 7 years

Other/Specific Qualifications (if required)

Competence

VMware ESXi & vCenter

VMware Aria Automation

Scripting skills

GitLab SCM

GitLab CI Pipelines

Terraform

Cloud-Technologies

Minimum level of expertise ( 1=Base … 5=Expert )

6

5

5

4

2

2

2