Resilience/IT Continuity Engineer

Job Location: Belgium
Job Category: Cybersecurity
Job Type: Full Time

As IT Resiliency Engineer, you join the enthusiastic and multidisciplinary IT Continuity team. Together, you are responsible for ensuring our client’s ability to react to a critical failure of an application or a data center. Within BNPPF, you collaborate to the embedding of rules defined by Regulators such as the European Central Bank, Belgium National Bank & our Group Policies.

  • You are responsible of a set of activities ensuring our reactivity during a critical application failure.
  • In collaboration with the Application owner, you manage and follow up the delivery and validation of Application Impact Analysis (AIA), Continuity Run Book (CRB), and Disaster Recovery (DR) Unitary Exercise documents, and the potential gaps in those deliverables.
  • You are the main contact for several tribes for all resiliency topics.
  • You make recurrent follow-ups with our Tribe Continuity contacts on:
    • Changes within their infra and application landscape impact one of the deliverables.
    • Progress on AIA, CRB, DR Unitary Exercises
  • You contribute to the Fortis & IT Group transversal DR exercises:
    • Validation of the CRB and their readiness.
    • Detailed capacity study for all the infrastructure components involved within our two data centers.
    • Close collaboration with our different stakeholders (BNPPF and Group) to prepare and collect required information.
    • Plan the DR exercises by identifying risks and preparing a mitigation plan
    • Help to build the Master Run Book (MRB), a collection of all actions from all needed CRBs.
    • You facilitate during the execution of the DR exercise (in practice: during night and weekend three times a year)

Highlight your strengths
You’re the physical embodiment of the scrum values: involvement, focus, openness, and respect, with a good dose of courage to boot.

  • You’re inquisitive and driven—and you’re always on the ball.
  • You thrive in a team environment, happily sharing your knowledge and insights.
  • You are quick to make connections and dare to question everything that deserves it.
  • You’re able to work under pressure.
  • You always search to improve yourself by learning new technologies, methodologies and/or how to be a better you.
  • You are excited by having responsibilities, making decisions & vulgarizing them.

You have a great knowledge of English. Dutch/French knowledge is a plus.
You have (at least) 5 years of experience as a resiliency engineer or were previously a security engineer, OPS engineer or Architect.
You have (at least) a strong interest in the Resiliency domain or can give a clear overview of resiliency expectations and challenges to stakeholders.

You know your way around:

  • Technology landscape
  • Stakeholder management
  • Communication best practice
  • Architecture and technical diagrams and can review/validate them on resiliency topics
  • Process, procedures, and how important they are

You surprise us with your experience in one or multiple of the following domains:

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