system engineer - file transfer

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KBC Bank, the parent company of the Hungarian K&H Bank, provides banking services in 5 European countries. The international IT solutions of the banking group, covering several European countries, takes place with Hungarian and Belgian colleagues in Hungary and Belgium, therefore not only our services are international, but also our teams. Our responsibilities range from day-to-day operation to application development and its operation. We are constantly expanding the Hungarian side of the team, which is why we are looking for enthusiastic, motivated new employees with junior, medior or possibly senior work experience.

The Interchange team is part of the KBC Services & Infrastructure department. In this team we provide the service to interchange data between business applications by managed file transfer within KBC Group (internal gateway) and external partners (external gateway). The team is responsible for building file transfer frameworks and the necessary tooling to automate and manage file transfer. It also takes care of internal and external file transfer setups for our customers.

What your job will  be:

• Within Interchange MFT you will work as a systems engineer.
• Together with your colleagues you work in a challenging and changing environment.
• You immediately receive operational assignments and the associated responsibilities, and thus get to know the systems in order to grow further.
• After on the job training and an introduction period you will be responsible for setting up, installing and maintaining the middleware components on open systems, Zos and cloud. This brings you in contact with all possible aspects of file transfer.
• A selection from the range of tasks:
• manage and update the current file transfer frameworks,
• assisting the other ICT teams in setting up new transfers,
• establishing, maintaining and troubleshooting external and internal file transfer connections,
• incident & problem management follow-up on reducing recurring issues.
• The job consists of new development, bug fixing and maintenance, writing and updating documentation. This is a context where we focus on automation and self-service.
• You will be working in a team, consisting of senior and medior profiles.
• There is intensive collaboration within the team, both with the other engineers, the product owner, system architect and scrum master.
• You will be supported to make sure that you can start working on your first tickets as soon as possible.

What you can expect working with us:

• You can make sure your future career is steady within our company
• Life-long learning and plenty of opportunities to challenge yourself
• Competitive salary as well as other benefits such as:
• 10% customizable cafeteria,
• annual performance-based reward,
• company phone with mobile internet, that you can use for private purposes as well
• employee discount at the bank
• Medicover
• Your English language skills won’t be worn out as you can use it on a daily basis
• Flexible schedule as we don’t use ‘Clock in Clock out’ system 
• As our focus is on teamwork we consider it important to hang out in the "open office" together, but you have the option to spend 3 days per week working from home
• We value your insight and are always open to suggestions
• International environment with a cheerful work atmosphere
• Green office in Millennium Park, equipped with:

• bicycle storage and showers
• restaurant with panoramic views over the Danube and the National Theatre
• free coffee and snacks in our community area where we hang out and play darts, and many dining options in the surrounding area

What we expect from You:

• Solid experience with Linux.
• System engineering (compute, network, storage) background.
• Experience working in an agile context using JIRA/Kanban.
• Relevant experience in a file transfer context and knowledge of file transfer concepts, ranging from certificates, codepages, protocols.
• Scripting skills are a plus.
• Focused on quality, performance, safety and stability.
• Not discouraged by existing limitations and always looking for solutions.
• Open and fresh view on development (end-to-end)
• Quality driven and detail oriented thinking.
• Creative spirit and open to ideas.
• Team player and actively seeking for collaboration to challenge and enrich ideas.
• Quick learner and being able to absorb information autonomously.
• Flexible, sociable, creative, ability to communicate clearly.
• Fluent English.

What you can expect during the recruitment process:

• After sending your CV in English, expect a three-round interview process, one online with our local recruiter,  one online in English with the Belgian team leader, and the final round is in person at our office in Budapest (in Hungarian) to get to know each other better.
• An efficient selection process is important for both of us, so we try to make it as fast as possible, and even if you are not selected we will give you a detailed feedback.