DevOps and Cloud Engineer

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? AWS certified cloud engineer with 14 years of experience in IT industry with 12+ years in the field of Prime
brokerage backoffice and GECD Middle office as Application Support Expert and 2 years in DevOps and Cloud
technology.
? Worked in diverse domains such as Capital markets, Closed-end-funding, Fixed income, Equities, Electronic
trading Floor applications, Financial reporting
? Working as Cloud Administrator on Microsoft Azure and AWS, responsible to develop well-architected
multi-cloud solutions, involved in support and maintenance of cloud-based system deployments.
? Extensive experience in project management, requirement gathering, creating use case, data analysis,
development, business reporting and documentation, communication between management and development
team, and creating test scenarios.
? Experienced in Automating, Configuring and Deploying resources on cloud environments using Infrastructure as
code CDK, CloudFormation, Terraform and Pulumi.
? Wrote Python scripts to manage AWS resources from API calls using BOTO SDK and AWS CLI.
? Experienced with Cloud Monitoring / Cost management / Billing and Performance tools, and ability to develop
remediation plans
? Experienced with code repository management tools like GitHub (GIT), Subversion (SVN) and CVS.
? Worked on CI/CD pipeline for code deployment using Git and Jenkins, setup pipelines for low level and
production environments
? Managed application deployments in Kubernetes using Helm and monitor the state in cluster nodes, Kubernetes
components using Rancher.
? Strong understanding of Equities and fixed income products with respect to brokerage operations, Trade capture
(OMS), Middle office operations and Back office settlements with DTCC.
? Solid understanding of Reference data (pricing feeds and client data) and Data analysis for real time market
valuations with respect to Bloomberg, Broadridge BPS Advantage and Calypso.
? Strong data mapping and data analysis skills and expertise in MS Excel, MS Access and SQL
? Extensive experience in designing workflows and communicating the trade-off decisions on product features
based on technology, customer requirements.

Role and Responsibility:
? Working as part of DevOps and Cloud Team for different internal automations.
? Responsibilities include management of cloud services, design and development of landing zones in AWS and Azure.
? Develop Infrastructure as Code in Cloud to support application development teams.
? Deploy and support AWS File Gateway Architecture NFS and SMB to sync On-Premise with AWS S3 buckets.
? Setup cloud DR, Backup and Log monitoring.
? Remote login to Virtual Machines/EC2 to troubleshoot, monitor and deploy applications.
? Managing day to day activity of the cloud environment, supporting development teams with their requirements.
? Deployed Azure resource manager based resources.
? Involved in designing and deploying a multitude applications utilizing almost all of the AWS stack (Including AWS
IAM, VPC, EC2, ECS, EBS,S3, Lambda, ELB, Auto Scaling, Route 53, Cloud Watch, Cloud Trail, SQS, and SNS and experienced in Cloud automation using AWS Cloud Formation templates/CDK to create custom sized VPC,
subnets, EC2 instances, ELB and Securitygroups.
? Involved in configuring virtual machines, storage accounts, resource groups in Azure.Monitor cloud usage and cost. Responsible for decommissioning unused resources in the cloud.
? Responsible for monitoring security violations in the cloud and put in remediation in place using AWS Config.
? Experience in CI / CD using Jenkins for application process and in production support.
? Responsible for upgrading vendor applications.
? Orchestrated CI/CD processes by responding to Git triggers, human input, and dependency chains and environment setup.
? Managed local deployments in Kubernetes, creating local cluster and deploying application containers.
? Created reproducible builds of the Kubernetes applications and managed running applications in Kubernetes
using Rancher.

IT GSO back office
Role and Responsibility:
? Oversee and provide front line support with monitoring the application support queue and e-mail box and
address each issue as per the set protocol. Ensure all emails and calls are answered in a timely manner and follow up each issue to closure.
? Implemented automated processes which led mitigating operational risk.
? Successfully design and deployed Global Applications overnight support model.
? Liaison with the respective project leaders of the systems to create and maintain help/FAQ documents for the applications. Ensure the latest versions are always accessible to the users.
? Lead the efforts in improving support practices & processes; guide and set direction for overall application
support efforts.
? Document solutions and workarounds in a central Knowledge Base for future use in resolving similar situations.
? Represent the application support team by serving as main application support liaison to both application
delivery teams and internal business users.
?   Continually identify ways to improve support and decrease unnecessary support calls. Identify improvements to applications, processes, and business logic to meet user needs and communicate to the respective App Dev team
lead.
?   Perform data analysis tasks with SQL tools in order to troubleshoot errors and user questions. Work with the development team to analyze the data when necessary and promptly follow up with the user.
?   Create training documents and conduct periodic training for selected system super users in different business
areas.
?   Deliver a high level of customer service to all users and continuous communication.
?   Assist with testing new application functions and work with project leads to communicate the changes in the software to the appropriate group of users.
?   Maintain a positive, constructive, team-oriented attitude as well as sound judgment with all job responsibilities.
?   Be on call for the development support after hours, when required.

Business Applications Support Analyst

Secondary Loan Trading Project Background: Project is to migrate the US Loan Trading desk to the Global SLT platform
developed in London. Current US SLT business is supported by several non-integrated systems (Loan Trak, Loan IQ)
requiring manual processes to support the front to back execution of Loan Trading activities leading to operational
inefficiencies and month-end P&L reporting breaks that require manual Ledger adjustments. The business required a
more industrialized system to support its current trading operations and to support any potential future growth.
Role and Responsibility:
? Defining IT solutions and then presenting those solutions in Specification documents.
? Ensuring that all stakeholders are up-to-date and up to speed with developments.
? Proactively identifies and nurtures opportunities, ideas and innovations.
? Responsible for delivering project against agreed scope, budget, schedule & customer expectations. Doing this
whilst supervising, directing & motivating teams of multi-discipline employees.
? Monitoring Workflow, project risks and scope creep to identify potential problems and proactively identifying
solutions to address them in advance.
? Escalating promptly any issues that may impact operations.
? Producing stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs, requests for change etc.
? Managing client expectations by ensuring the delivery of the highest quality service.
? Monitoring staff & team performance.

GECD Middle Office Trade Support:
As part of Global Equities & Commodity Derivatives, the main mission of Middle Office Operations to cover the
management of operations in the booking systems, the follow-up of client billing and reporting, the reconciliation of positions between FO and booking systems, the calculation, explanation and analysis of the daily profits and losses
including reconciliation with Financial accounting results, the management of the referential data, the management of relationships with Back-Office and Custodians, the management of Corporate Action events and advice to FO
teams. These missions are accomplished through a close relationship with Back-Offices, Traders, Sales, IT and Business
Analysts.
Role and Responsibility:
? Function as Production Support within Capital Markets IT - Prime Brokerage
? Automated Majority of the manual processes using VBA, VB Script and Python.
? Provide Support to the referential set-up for a wide variety of financial instruments traded on the GECD
platform (equities, futures, options, convertible bonds, etc.)
? Creation of financial instruments used by trading and the market data associated, static or dynamic
? Third party referential creation (Book & Portfolio workflow)
? Implemented and deployed various automated processes which led mitigating operational risk.


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Application support expert: Prime brokerage back office trade capture (Tiger)
Tiger is centralized trade capture system for Prime brokerage within BNP Paribas. It is designed to support multi-region,
multi-prime, real time and global for faster booking and matching of client and broker trades. It supports equity, option,
fixed income, foreign equity, wires, journals and international cash. Tiger integrates trades directly into back office/BPS,
calypso, portfolio accounting, and settlement systems. Tiger Portal UI oversees the day-to-day management of the hedge
fund's trading activity, processing and booking their client's trades. Given that trades occur often throughout the day BNP
client representatives go in and view the data sent regarding client's activities, see how trades were allocated, evaluate for any problems, work to resolve any discrepancy, and ensure a trade is booked correctly.
Role and Responsibility:
? Responsible for entire system development including all steps from project planning and estimation through
requirement gathering, analysis, design, testing, integration and postproduction support.
? Involved in discussion with traders, OMS and Backoffice technology to understand the trading of equity
derivative products and capturing the impacts on the future state.
? Responsible for providing both domestic and international post-execution trade support for the equity and fixed-income trading desks.
? Working daily with confirmations to ensure proper settlement of securities, communicating security
transactions to custodians and act as a liaison between the broker/dealer and custodian for all trade
settlement issues.
? Responsible to facilitate the accurate and timely settlement of securities transactions across domestic and international markets.
? Monitor and communicate trade discrepancies and trade fails with both internal and external parties on
daily basis.
? Interact daily with the middle office, counterparties, traders, corresponding banks, immediate supervisors,
and the finance desk
? Worked on BPS advantage and used SQLs to access data from RDMS, which is loaded on nightly batch runs
for positions, balances and other reference data.
? Responsible for trade capture, booking of trades, settlements, trade breaks, and the resolution of all trade
problems in Equity Derivatives; Bonds, Options, FX.
? Responsible for assisting traders with their daily issues to make sure holdings, allocations, and trade details
are accurate and correct.
? Develop oracle stored procedures and created many ad hoc queries and reports for the users during support.
? Created many reconciliation reports to reconcile and resolve trade-related issues as well as outstanding in a
timely manner.

GECD Middle Office Project Management

Prime Brokerage Back office and Prime DB application
Roles and Responsibilities
? Maintain the matching component between the client and broker version of the trades and display the breaks on the website.
? Develop SYBASE stored procedures for positions, balances and transaction for Prime Broker ware house
? Create and support PERL modules for data extraction and loading trading data to tables.
? Work with PERL DBI/DBD for Sybase database connection.
? Design Sybase stored procedures and tables for data modifications.
? Work in fixing the bugs in existing PERL/KSH batches.

Support Consultant

Prime Brokerage Backoffice
Roles and Responsibilities
? Support many PERL modules for data extraction and loading.
? Create many ad-hoc queries and reports for the users during support.
? Maintain and supported PERL/KSH batches 24X7.
? Maintain and modified the Cron tab jobs for support.
? Create CGI scripts for the front end interface. Worked with PERL DBI/DBD for Sybase database connection.

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