Job Title:  Principal 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.

India-based DevOps Managing Engineer will be responsible for the maintenance and continued development of an on-prem data analytics platform. This Kubernetes based platform with S3 compatible object store and analytics query engine is the core Data Lakehouse platform for risk analysis serving multiple internal applications and adhoc-queries against over a petabyte of data.  This platform also serves in a hybrid mode connecting to multiple datastores and databases both on-prem and in the AWS cloud.  This platform supports applications including Java, Python, and Spark-based data pipelines and SQL, Python, and other BI and AI based analytics.  The S3 compatible object storage is the primary store of billions of objects collected from hundreds of different sources both on-prem and in AWS cloud.

This key role would be working with world wide resources to continue development and maintenance of this platform.

• Become a trusted advisor for our platform to senior management, business stake holders, applications teams, and your fellow platform developers.
• Understand technology landscape, recognize challenges and opportunities and translate it into an actionable roadmap.
• Help design and implement platform as a code and CI/CD processes on-prem and on AWS.
• Support what you and the team develops.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with business and application teams.
• Design, build, and maintain our cloud data platform infrastructure and tools for on-prem infrastructure, hybrid deployment with AWS and other relevant tools as necessary.
• Develop automation scripts and tools for streamlined deployment and management of the data platform.
• Collaborate with the data engineering and analytics teams to understand their requirements and ensure the data platform meets their needs.
• Monitor the performance and health of the cloud data platform, proactively identifying and resolving issues.
• Develop and implement security and compliance measures to ensure the cloud data platform is secure and compliant with relevant regulations.
• Continuously improve the data platform to ensure it is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective.

Implement and maintain a continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for the data platform.

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.