Job Title:  Lead Infrastructure Operations & Services

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
 
Nomura Services India, (Powai) supports Nomura’s businesses around the world. Powai’ s world class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support have played a key role in facilitating Nomura’s global operations and are an integral part of Nomura’s global expansion plans. The Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.

Role and Responsibilities

• Provide Application, System Monitoring and Production Support for alerts by investigating into job failures and general queries
• Proactive Monitoring of the critical flows during critical time of the day or during key events
• Incident management including communication to business users, IT stakeholders, root cause analysis, follow ups with application owners, documentation of the sequence of events and issue resolution
• Ownership of DR testing, DR plan and execution
• Release and change review ensuring all Nomura change processes are followed
• Release deployment using Nomura approved tools
• Ensure that production systems are available after weekend maintenance or weekend releases

• Automation of production processes where applicable
• Maintain high performance, high available and scalable applications working with development teams

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

Minimum Qualifications:

• 4 to 9 years of production support or development experience with strong SQL skills
• Experience with data processing platforms – AWS EMR, Hadoop, Spark, Java
• Experience with Messaging Systems such as Kafka, Solace, Pulsar
• 2+ years of working experience in building and supporting Cloud Data solutions, preferably in AWS with hands-on experience with Cloud Data Lake/Data Warehousing technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, AWS redshift/Spectrum
• Understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices
• Proficiency in deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS, Python, Java
• Ability to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS and on-premise
• Ability to work and communicate with both business and technical experts
• College or University degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or relevant degree

Preferred Skills:

• Python 2 or 3, Strong SQL skills
• Linux/Unix Shell Scripting
• Big Data, Hadoop, Snowflake

Equal Opportunity Employer:
 
Nomura is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees (including promotion, transfers, assignments and beliefs). We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, career’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age. Our objective is to attract job applications and applications for development from the best possible candidates and to retain the best people.