Storage Administrator L3

The BNP Paribas Group is one of the largest international banking networks, with a presence in 72 countries. The organisation is an international financial services group, with in excess of 202,000 employees with solid roots in Europe, a significant and growing presence in the Americas as well as a solid and fast-growing business in Asia-Pacific.

The BNP Paribas Group is organised around two main activities: Retail Banking & Services and Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB).

**MADRID IT Platform**:
The CIB IT Platform for EMEA is responsible to provide IT Services to our Clients ensuring a Digital Market evolution, in a secured and performant environment, and with a reliable quality. This function includes Global Markets Application Production, Local Territory IT Development, the Core Infrastructure environment including Datacentres, Application Production, Security, Architecture as well as elements of the Global Services organisation.

The “Data & Platform” Domain is part of the Corporate & Institutional Banking Information Technology & Operations (CIB ITO) of BNP PARIBAS, it is in charge to manage a key part of the infrastructure such the core of the servers, databases, storage, backup, middleware, citrix farms, automatization / scanning / monitoring&alerting tools and VMware infrastructure.

Within this domain, Storage administration has a relevant role, as NAS &SAN services are a key part of our infrastructure.

This position is focus in the management of Storage infrastructure for most of European countries where BNPP is present.

Due to large number of assets to manage, and the different vendor technologies, to have a high learning capacity is key to adopt required skills on new technologies.

High reactivity, proactive improvements and capacity to follow plan action linked to new project and/or incident remediation are part of the day to day of this position.
- To contribute on SAN service management ensuring a proper follow-up of major topics.
- To contribute on NAS service management ensuring a proper follow-up of major topics.
- To contribute to do a proper vulnerabilities remediation according to company rules.
- To contribute in the design and implementation of new projects of the European countries.
- To contribute to provide the required L3 support on Storage technologies.
- To follow ITIL methodology in the daily tasks.
- Knowledge of the Norms and Standards of the BNP Paribas Group

**Professional Knowledge and Expertise**

Essential:

- High skills on SAN Storage technologies (VMAX, Purestorage, VNX, Brocade).
- High skills on NAS Storage technologies (NetApp, VNX).
- At least 10 years of experience working in an equivalent position.
- Team and collaborative mind-set to develop and deliver appropriate solutions skills.
- Experience of delivering strategic priorities within strict timelines.
- Customer service-oriented skills.
- Capacity to learn new technologies in an autonomous way.

Desirable:

- Skills on Nasuni.
- Skills on EMC Unity, ECS.
- Skills on Panzura.
- Skills on PowerStore.
- Skills on Cleversafe.
- Big data knowledge: ELK and Distributed workload
- Stateful Container and Kubernetes
- DEVOPS oriented: High development skills Scripting on Python / Bash / PowerShell, code versioning tools and CD/CI
- Eager to learn
- Analytical mind-set
- Ability to work well under pressure, ability to work autonomous and in team environment
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Curious and open mind person.

**Languages and Qualifications**

Languages:

- High English spoken and written fluent (B2/C). Mandatory
- French spoken and written will be valued

**Qualifications**:

- Degree in Computer Science preferable but no mandatory
- ITIL Foundation certification will be desirable

**Others**
- On Site Services: From 7:00 to 19:30 schedule to cover in weekly shifts of 8 working hours/day
- On Call Services: Out of regular schedule, we provide On Call services 24/7 to be covered in weekly shifts by team members.
- BNPP is an international company, most of Spanish non-working days out of weekends are considered as business days, so they require Onsite support -but to be covered with a reduce number of staff-. These days and the OnCall support have specific compensation, in the same way that if it is required to work in a scheduled activity on weekend.