You will join the IT Production Security department, its mission is to : 

• Transform security into a strategic value-driver (i.e. enable innovation and enhance customers’ trust in our services)

• Have security integrated in the early design phase of products and services ('secure by design')

• Root security deeply in our corporate DNA

• Validate the resiliency of our service and solutions

• As part of the Agile Impulse organization, the Security Tribe provides best-in-class security capabilities ready to be used by the other tribes.

Tasks                                                     

• As IT Resiliency Engineer, you join the enthusiastic and multidisciplinary IT Continuity team. Together, you are responsible to ensure our Bank ability to react to a critical failure of an application or a datacenter. Within the company, 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), 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-up with our Tribe Continuity contacts on:

• Changes within their infra and application landscape impacting 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 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), collection 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)

Ideal Profile

• 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’ 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, …