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.

• Deliver and execute against plan to meet TOC automation requirements
• Reduce manual effort using automation and/or process efficiencies
• Align with Similar automation functions and use common frameworks and structures where relevant
• Align with Infra team to understand current capabilities and create a gap analysis or requirements
• Align with the Observability best practices and integrate with Nomura’s Observability framework where appropriate
• Align with Application teams (Development and Production Services) to ensure their systems are integrated into the overall solution where appropriate

Skills & Experience Required:

• Strong communication – presenting and documentation
• Experience of change in a large organisation
• Demonstrate understanding of large enterprise systems and the technologies on which they are built
• Strong analytical skills and a solid understanding of Production Support processes
• In-depth understanding of automation principles
• Demonstrable understanding of automation efforts to improve the user experience

Knowledge Required:

• Background in CI/CD, Cloud principles (AWS/K8s) or on prem automation techniques
• Strong Experience with Infrastructure tools and API’s
• Appreciation of SLI/SLOs for measuring and reporting on service levels
• Awareness of notification frameworks for escalation automation, e.g. Everbridge
• Experience of DevOps tools i.e. Jenkins, Ansible Tower, GIT and build & deploy pipelines
• Exposure to Terraform, Kubernetes, containers & micro-service concepts (not essential, but beneficial)
• Front end development experience
• Knowledge of infrastructure and operating system fundamentals
• ServiceNow integration (nice to have)

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.