Senior Unix Systems Administrator - AS400 AVP Level

About BNP Paribas Group

BNP Paribas Group is a leading European bank with a strong global footprint across 72 markets and more than 202,000 employees. The Group provides corporates, institutional and private investors with product and service solutions tailored to their specific needs. It offers a wide range of financial services covering corporate & institutional banking, wealth management, asset management, insurance, as well as retail banking and consumer financing through strategic partnerships.

About BNP Paribas Solutions - Philippines Branch

Established in 2024, BNP Paribas Solutions Philippines Branch is a branch of BNP Paribas Group, a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. We provide support services, back-office operations services related to or which further the accomplishment of the corporation’s investment services, banking transaction processing, and equity investment.

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, color, 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

The Server Infrastructure team is responsible for supervising, monitoring, and developing the Server of the regional Hub of BNP Paribas, liaising with BNP Paribas Head Offices where all major banking applications are hosted. Server Team activities play a major role in the structure of processes that govern decision making around IT investment, client and supplier relationships, and project management.

Position Purpose

The principal objective of this position is to provide expert level support for UNIX environment. Provide 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support ensuring full availability of the environment during production hours. The engineer will play an active role on all Safety & Trust initiatives as well as day-to-day support activities, administration and all projects associated with LINUX infrastructures and their associated applications. Due to large number of assets to manage, being able to automate the BAU tasks is a key point. Vulnerability and obsolescence remediation, proactive improvements and action plan for incidents are part of the day to day of this position.

Responsibilities

Direct Responsibilities

• Provide 24/7/365 support for Primary: AS400 Secondary: RedHat & Ubuntu
• Proactively monitor all UNIX systems utilizing BNP Paribas standard tools.
• Management of SAN and NAS at server side
• Maintaining and adapting the configuration of server software and system components lifecycle Management.
• Leverages Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform whenever and wherever possible (or other automation skills valuable like Puppet for developing and maintaining automation scripts)
• Maintaining and monitoring the infrastructure using different tools
• Tickets resolution through incidents, problems and different requests from the clients or other infrastructure teams
• Troubleshooting, co-ordination with third party suppliers and vendors as well as with the central IT department of the customer.
• Contingency planning, environment planning, configuration management and other relevant tasks related to the role.
• Maintaining the relevant documents/manuals describing the system and its infrastructure.
• Escalating incidents internally or to 3rd party partners when required.
• Participating, on a punctual basis, on specific projects related to your specialty.
• Liaise with application developers to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systems, which clearly differentiate between Production, DR, Test and Development.
• Identify operational and infrastructure risks within the environment and work with the application development team and Equity business to make corrections and mitigate risks.
• Ensure that all systems are backed up according to the business requirements and notify the data owners when there are failures.
• Ensure optimal resilience of deployed systems; and meet all disaster recovery requirements specified by the business.
• Maintain top-notch technical skills and business knowledge through proactive self-learning in addition to any formal instructor-led training provided by BNP Paribas.
  
  

• Administration of Unix core services and applications such as NIS, NFS, Automount, DNS, DHCP, CIFS, SendMail, Apache, NTP, PTP, Sudo, Jumpstart/Kickstart, LDAP, SSH.
• Performing system upgrades, installing layered products, and analyzing and troubleshooting complex production systems.
• Familiarize with system administration regarding relational databases (Sybase, Oracle), Middleware (WebSphere MQ), and market data distribution (Reuters RMDS) a plus.
• Ability to interface with users at all levels of the organization and good end-user support skills.
• Work as a member of a team, adhere to corporate standards and change management processes, and work to improve IT standards and policies.
• Assess demand for their service or technology area and develop plans to meet future capacity needs and make recommendations to the manager.
  
  

• At least 10+ years of experience in UNIX/Linux environment ideally within the financial services industry
• Expert Knowledge of UNIX kernel and network subsystem tuning and optimization desirable.
• Good knowledge of system performance and monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, sar, iostat, etc.
• Good programming skills with Perl, Awk, Sed, Shell script, Puppet, Ansible.
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP and basic networking – ability to use and understand output of tcpdump/snoop
• Hands-on experience with technologies (Veritas Infoscale, VxVM, OpenSVC, VMWare, KVM etc.)
• Handles the product lifecycle of the Unix infrastructure to assure operational availability; designs and specifies changes for implementation.
• Experience in iSeries/Power series system refresh.
• Deep understanding on Security and vulnerability management, access control, object authorities, secured system and remediation. Also, Compliant and Audit requirement.
• Develop and maintain system documentation, including configuration guides, and standard operating procedures. Direct and be responsible for the implementation effort.
• Ideally, ITIL 4 Foundation qualification and strong experience in ITIL best practices and processes in Service Request, Incident, problem and change management.
  
  

• IBM i5/OS (OS/400) V6 / V7, VIOS VM environment
• Network protocol and routing
• System performance analysis and capacity planning and recommendation.
• PTF / CUM Package ordering/installation
• Query/400 – SQL/400, DB2, Java
• ILE RPG/400, ILE COBOL, ILE C++, XML Toolkit
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.x / 8.x/ 9.x
• Ubuntu 16.x / 18.x / 20.x / 22.x