Windows Systems Administrator Analyst

Main Responsibilities

Full stack support

• Responsible for supporting a trading environment consisting of Windows servers and be actively involved in the planning and implementation of new projects.
• Provide 1st, 2nd and 3rd Level Support for the production Environments
• Perform system upgrades and mandatory security/OS patching.
• Liaise with application support teams to gather requirements, design, and deploy standard systems 
• Perform thorough morning checks on all critical applications using existing tools or scripts.
• Incident and Problem management: take ownership and work with team to resolve production related issues.

Risk & resilience management

• Build & support Microsoft Failover clusters & also work with stretch clusters. 
• Manage Business Continuance in relation to Disaster Recovery.
• Maintain System high reliability, availability and resiliency levels.
• Collaborate with security teams to ensure compliance, hardening and vulnerability remediations across Windows platforms. 

Automation & AI enablement

• Develop and build automation scripts using Ansible to provision, deploy, perform patching and reduce manual operational work. 
• Integrate AI / ML driven operational tools to improve monitoring, performance tuning and capacity planning

Policy & standards ownership

• Interface with Vendors and Internal Global Teams to ensure the environment conforms to the current standards.
• Responsible for ensuring that all systems are deployed consistent with group standards and best practices.
• Strictly abide and follow the company policy and procedures pertaining to change and incident management.

Continuous monitoring

• Proactive System Performance Monitoring (using Geneos, Dynatrace HP/DELL/IBM ) and capacity management
• Provide 24*7 On call support based on rotation within the team 

Inventory & documentation

• Maintain an accurate CMDB record of hardware, OS images, network topology, and configuration baselines; keep running books and architecture diagrams up to date.

Technical Competencies

• Operating Systems Senior level in Windows 2016/2019/2022/2025.
• Performance & Observability Experience with monitoring tools (Dynatrace) and troubleshooting.
• Scripting & Automation Experience with PowerShell and scripting. Python, Ansible.
• Networking Strong TCP/IP fundamentals; ability to capture/analyses traffic with tcp dump, Wireshark.
• Core Services Experience with DNS, DHCP, Windows server management, Windows Cluster, Active Directory.
• Virtualization & Containers Experience with VMware vSphere 8+
• Storage Experience managing storage disks hosted on Dell and Pure storages.

Position requirements

• Bachelors degree in information systems, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent experience)      
• Languages: Fluent English (and Portuguese)
• Windows Server administration            
• Production support of critical infrastructure
• Scripting (PowerShell) and automation experience (Ansible)              
• Ability to communicate clearly with developers, business users, and senior management         
• Demonstrated projectmanagement or coordination skills in a fastmoving trading context

Why join BNP Paribas? 

BNP Paribas is an international bank with leading positions in the European market. It is present in more than 60 countries and employs nearly 178,000 people. The Group occupies key positions in its three main areas of operation: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services (whose retail banking and financial services network is part of Retail Banking & Services), as well as Corporate & Institutional Banking, which offers services to corporate and institutional clients.

Our presence in Brazil

BNP Paribas has been officially operating in Brazil since 1996. Since 2010, when the Securities Services area began operating, the Brazilian unit has the largest number of business lines in Latin America, making it one of the Group's largest operations in emerging markets. Today, in Brazil, the Group is present with the areas of Corporate and Institutional Banking, Asset Management, Insurance (Cardif) and Fleet Management (Arval).

Currently, the BNP Paribas Group has around 1400 employees in the country. In Brazil, it is among the largest international investment banks in total assets (R$ 112.5 billion, Jun/23, Prudential Conglomerate, Central Bank), offering a diversity of products and multiple solutions to its clients. 

BNP Paribas is committed to providing a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusion, and equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, gender, age, creed, sex, religion, national origin, disability (physical or mental), marital status, citizenship, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity and gender expression, or any other legally protected status.

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