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.
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
- Drive modernization of the application development community by implementing automation and SRE practices to reduce friction and improve reliability.
- Manage stakeholder engagement by providing cloud SME capabilities for the user community.
- Champion established best practices for the use of cloud across a wide range of use cases and consumption models.
- Effectively develop and maintain robust Infrastructure as Code and other automation artifacts for infrastructure deployment, common tasks and to help resolve technical problems.
- Provide platform management & support coverage for the Cloud platforms & automation under remit
- Act with a sense of urgency when issues arise, engaging relevant parties to assist with troubleshooting and investigating of problems until a resolution is reached.
- Work in hybrid environment with applications being hosted internally and on cloud platforms.
- Work collaboratively and effectively with peers, management, and leadership teams.
- Ensure clear & detailed documentation/runbooks/user guides for automation solutions & processes being defined
Required Skills:
- 3-5 years of IT Infrastructure experience working on Infra Platforms and Public Cloud (AWS)
- 3-5 of hands-on experience with automation technologies to build, deploy, and integrate infrastructure and applications (e.g. Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Ansible)
- Proficiency in Python & Ansible to drive automation, integration with Cloud Provider APIs
- Strong experience of managing cloud platforms & on-premise infrastructure using established IAC technologies (Terraform and Terraform Enterprise) and practices.
- Experience with code repos (Git), project tracking (Jira) and ITIL Ticketing (ServiceNow) systems, GitOps frameworks.
- Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of the software development lifecycle.
- Ability to work in a fast paced and challenging technical environment, with the aim of producing meaningful results for the business
- Exposure to Jenkins based CI/CD pipelines & automated deployment constructs
Desirable Skills
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.