Job Title:  Sr. 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.

The role will be a member of the Cloud Operations team in Powai, Mumbai. Project focus will be a combination of platform, private deliverables. This will involve close collaboration with platform engineering groups and transparent planning and management reporting. This position will directly contribute to the overall infra architecture and platform offering, supporting the deployment of on-premise applications, driving infrastructure implementations and serving as subject matter expert to the user community, across Infrastructure and Platform as a Service (Iaas/PaaS/IaaC).

This is an operations role, Providing a support through follow-the-sun model for Global Cloud Operations team, including on-call rotation and weekend coverage as needed.

This is a great opportunity to get involved with new technologies and help shape the Cloud implementation at Nomura.

The successful candidate will be expected to have the same ethos and appetite for automation / SRE and  knowledge of cloud technologies.

Support coverage is provided during regular business hours corresponding to India and European markets. Position does not involve overnight shifts

Technical Experience/Knowledge Required:

Essential to have most of the following:

• Knowledge/experience of using Terraform and Ansible
• Scripting and source control skills (e.g. Python, Shell scripting, PowerShell, Powercli)
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions)
• Exposure to large scale IT infrastructure support
• Capacity planning and performance optimization
• Experience on VMware platform or Redhat OpenShift
• Understanding of Network concepts
• 4 - 8 years of relevant experience

Desirable, but not must:

• Understanding of Core Infra technologies like Load Balancers, DNS and LDAP
• Experience in Vibe Coding
• Experience in dashboading tools e.g. PowerBI
• ITIL experience including change and incident management preferred
• OS Platform knowledge Linux (RedHat 9.x or 8.x) OR Windows (2019, 2022)

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Containers (preferably EKS or Rancher)

Soft Skills Required:

• Self-motivation, enthusiasm and proven rapid learning capability
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work with minimal supervision and on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent time management and prioritisation of work tasks
• Utilisation of own initiative to resolve issues
• Exceptional interpersonal skills including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
• Excellent English written, verbal, and presentation skills

• Business and analytical problem solving skills.

• Ability to understand business context and requirements and discuss techinical details at different levels based on the audience

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.