Job Title:  DevOps Engineer

Job title:                     DevOps Engineer

Corporate Title:          Associate

Department:               Group Platform Services and Engineering

Location:                    London

Company overview

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network spanning approximately 30 countries and regions. By connecting markets East & West, Nomura services the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through its three business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, and Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). Founded in 1925, the firm is built on a tradition of disciplined entrepreneurship, serving clients with creative solutions and considered thought leadership. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com.

Department overview
Nomura is looking for a strong technologist to join the Group Platform Services and Engineering team. This team is responsible for enhancing the developer experience, uplifting cyber resilience by transforming out access management technology and rolling out best in class platforms and services across all Nomura group companies. 

Role description:
We are looking for a DevOps Engineer within the Group Platform Service and Engineering team, responsible for the set up and management of CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab, Jenkins with exposure to IAC (Terraform ideally), and DevSecOps practices.
As part of a global team, it will be expected to work with peers in other regions and operators offshore.

Role / Principal Accountabilities:

• Creation and maintenance of Gitlab pipelines in a GitOps workflow.
• Working in a consultancy role for our development community to further automate existing pipeline automation (Jenkins and Ansible).
• Buildout and management of Buildpacks/IaC deployment and container images.
• Propose, design, and implement enhancements and additions to current environment.
• Develop Application automation standards and procedures.
• Mentor fellow engineers on technical issues, standards, and procedures.
• Assist in managing continuous improvement of engineering, delivery, and operational practices.
• Assist in developing engineering and operational service metrics with actionable plans to improve operational efficiency, enhance service quality/SLA, and optimize delivery.

Skills & Experience Required:

• Experience in creating and maintaining the following:
• o    Git pipelines (CI/CD)
• o    Jenkins Pipelines
• o    Helm Charts
• o    IAC templates (Terraform experience)
• o    DevSecOps integration to pipelines
• Experience with GitOps methodologies
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Experience with Ansible/Ansible Roles
• Experience working with development community
• The ability to work with customers to gather feedback, train, and partners to evolve the service
• End-to-end understanding of systems development life cycle methodology
• Demonstrates a strong understanding product lifecycle as well as how technical systems work and interact
• Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of all critical Production Support processes
• Exposure to agile development practices

Knowledge Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or proven equivalent experience
• Knowledge and experience of AWS
• Exposure to Configuration Management Solutions such as Ansible, Terraform
• Understanding of scripting languages such as Python, Bash & Java
• Tangible experience of DevOps tools i.e., Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Jira 
• Container technology i.e., Docker, Kubernetes, Helm
• Knowledge of operating system fundamentals including diagnostics, tuning, and monitoring of IO, Networks, CPU and Memory

General Attributes:

• Passionate in providing high quality customer service and learning new technologies
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Strong and confident communicator with good interpersonal skills
• Able to take initiative to investigate and follow-up with various stakeholders to resolve issues
• Solid understanding of release, deployment and change management process
• Self-motivated individual, quality and improvement focused
• Self-starter and able to self-manage
• Must be able to take initiative to keep own skills up to date and to maintain awareness of current technology developments
• Good team player, ability to work on a local, regional and global basis as part of joint cross location initiatives

Nomura competencies
Trusted Partner

• Understand clients’ needs and issues and respond with high-quality proposals. 
• Acquire capabilities to perform one’s responsibilities and contribute to being a Trusted Partner 

Entrepreneurial leadership 

• Produce new ideas that might challenge the status-quo or oneself.

Teamwork Collaboration

• Seek advice from senior colleagues and utilize it for improved results. 
• Collaborate with members from relevant departments. 

Influence

• Contribute to the success of the organization both quantitatively and qualitatively, and act with awareness of the impact on others.
• Serve as role model and provide guidance to junior employees.

Integrity 

• Have a good understanding of corporate philosophy, professional ethics, compliance, risk management, and code of conduct, and make decisions and take actions accordingly.

Right to Work

The UK Government have taken steps to reduce net migration to the UK by limiting the number of overseas workers from outside the EEA coming to the UK for employment. Please note that whilst we are able to consider applications from overseas workers from outside the EEA (who require a Tier 2 (General) visa) we can only employ them if we can provide evidence that there are no other suitable candidates for this vacancy from inside the EEA.

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Diversity Statement

Nomura is committed to an employment policy of equal opportunities and is fundamentally opposed to any less favourable treatment accorded to existing or potential members of staff on the grounds of race, creed, colour, nationality, disability, marital status, pregnancy, gender or sexual orientation. If you require any assistance or reasonable adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer