Apprentice

Apprentice

Job Description:

About Us

 At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

 One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We’re devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being.

Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

 Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

 

Global Business Services

 Global Business Services delivers Technology and Operations capabilities to Lines of Business and Staff Support Functions of Bank of America through a centrally managed, globally integrated delivery model and globally resilient operations.

 Global Business Services is recognized for flawless execution, sound risk management, operational resiliency, operational excellence and innovation.

 In India, we are present in five locations and operate as BA Continuum India Private Limited (BACI), a non-banking subsidiary of Bank of America Corporation and the operating company for India operations of Global Business Services.

 

Job Description

 The Core Technology Infrastructure (CTI) organization meets the needs of Bank of America’s clients and employees by working alongside development technology teams to design, implement and support cutting-edge applications and infrastructure. Our CTI teams provide core services such as network, cloud and compute capacity, enterprise storage and databases used to host trading applications, payment systems, mobile applications, and other end-user applications. Additionally, our CTI teams also provide non-technical services such as business management, infrastructure delivery project management, and business risk control.

 Our focus is on providing our clients with innovative, safe, and secure solutions by leveraging the most advanced technology tools, coupled with the creativity of our technology teams. Performs commoditized activities which may include monitoring, event management, service requests, and engineering. Technical Analysts will build foundational experience in network, systems, application, access requests, production support, or security engineering.

 

Skills exposure/Opportunity to work in areas such as:

• Infrastructure Support: Infra support, provisioning asset lifecycle, monitoring tools, Network routing, switching, Splunk, Windows server admin, Linux, VMware, Firewall, Shell scripting

Responsibilities:

 Responsible for deploying and supporting core infrastructure that underpins the daily operations of the entire bank, from networks, hosting, cloud platforms and mainframe. You will also work with various platform teams and Business Technology Groups to help build out automated processes.

Work within and across various teams within Global Technology to manage bank’s core infrastructure in one of the following teams:

• Hosting, Application & Database Services: Infrastructure capacity planning, Windows/ Unix/ Cloud Operations, Storage and Database Management
• Network Services: Internal/ External Network Management, Network Service Assurance
• Business Operations: Business Management, Financial Management, Risk and Controls
• Datacenter Services and Portfolio Management: Datacenter Projects and Operations, Infrastructure Project Management
• Mainframe Services: Mainframe Engineering and Operations
• Other responsibilities include the following:

·       Manages and prioritizes assigned tasks

·       Executes procedures reliable, responds with urgency, and escalates appropriately to senior team members

·       Opens triage bridge line, updates bridge board, engages teams as required

·       Monitoring all installed systems and infrastructure

·       Maintains solutions that are aligned to security, redundancy, and archiving blueprints and strategies

·       Supports client onboarding

·       Proactively ensures the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability within a technical domain

·       Responsible for event management and request fulfilment

·       Supports change activities

·       Writes and maintains documentation

The Application Production Services & Engineering (APSE) organization meets the needs of Bank of America’s clients and employees by working alongside development technology teams to design, implement and support cutting-edge applications and infrastructure. Our APSE teams provide application support services and engineering, alongside Core Technology Infrastructure (CTI) team to ensure availability of services such as network, cloud and compute capacity, enterprise storage and databases used to host trading applications, payment systems, mobile applications, and other end-user applications. Additionally, our APS&E teams also provide non-technical services such as market data services & operations, business operations, portfolio & infrastructure delivery project management, incident, change and problem management.

Our focus is on providing our clients with innovative, safe, and secure solutions by leveraging the most advanced technology tools, coupled with the creativity of our technology teams. Performs commoditized activities which may include monitoring, event management, service requests, and engineering. Technical Analysts will build foundational experience in network, systems, application, access requests, production support, or security engineering. 

 

Skills exposure/Opportunity to work in areas such as:

• Production Support: L1/L2 support, ITIL, Incident Management, IBM WebSphere, Mainframe, Unix, Autosys, Dynatrace, Splunk, Triage, incident coordination, log analysis
• undefinedResponsibilities: Candidates will get an opportunity to work with APS&E, Performance Engineering & Capacity Management group for analyzing performance/capacity/tools development of multiple applications in an agile environment. Provides support to end users responding to issues related to Incidents and Problem Management, for multiple applications, with the primary focus on triage leadership of all business impacting incidents.Understanding and ensuring compliance with the Incident Management and Problem Management policies and procedures. This role is the key focal point for the customer/client/associate experience and owns restoring any impacts to those experiences regardless of where the root cause of the impact lies.Application Monitoring - Respond to alerts & incidents, and escalate in a timely mannerUnderstand the basic functionality of Business and its dependent upstream and downstream requirements – work with key stakeholders to ensure that the business queries are answered and resolved within defined SLAWorking to resolve problems and incidents of varying complexity to enable smooth operationAll aspects required to process batch production within application servicesProactively monitor application availability, performance, response time, exceptions, faults and failures using a range of proprietary as well as third party monitoring tools24/7 Production control to ensure applications are available and running at peak efficiencyProvide usage trend analysis and status reportsBe part of incident Triages, provide relevant information and proper communication to stakeholders

 

Requirements:

 Educational Qualifications: Eligible Final year students from the Class of 2027 ONLY

• Degree Type: BTech, B.E
• Major Specialization: Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology.
• CGPA: 80% in the last semester OR CGPA of 8 on a scale of 10 in the last semester with no pending backlogs

Certifications: Good to have if any

Work Experience: No work experience, freshers only

Foundational skills: Good to have a background or knowledge in programming / scripting (e.g., Python, XML, JavaScript, Windows PowerShell), basic operating system commands (e.g., Windows / Linux) and databases (e.g. SQL), and analyzing datasets (e.g., Excel, SPSS, SAS etc.), Cloud DevOps skills.

 

Desired Skills:

• Production Support, Solution Design, DevOps Practices & Automation, App & Infrastructure Architecture
• Candidate good at problem solving and analytical skills
• Can implement solutions based on requirements or based on one’s own innovative ideas
• Have the willingness and aptitude to work in global distributed teams
• Have attention to detail and strong work ethics

 

Other Campus Eligibility Requirements:

• Students with Indian citizenship and residing in India
• Students should be open for any roles that they are finally selected as they deem suitable in the interview/evaluation process
• Students should be open to join any of our 5 locations namely –MUMBAI, CHENNAI, GURUGRAM, HYDERABAD, GIFT CITY. Not all campus roles are available in all locations. Location preference will not be given to the students.
• Students must be open to work in any shifts, including night shifts, rotational shifts as per business or process requirements

Experience Level

Entry Level