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.

Department:    Global Infrastructure Services – Networks

Location:         Powai – Mumbai

A global investment bank is looking to recruit a Network Operations/Implementations Engineer. The candidate should have strong networking technical skills to join their global facing Network Operations team for EMEA. The team’s primary responsibilities include the support, maintenance and installation of network infrastructure to support business critical services for the bank, with the major vendor technologies being Cisco.

Role / Principal Accountabilities:

They are looking for a highly motivated, experienced Network Engineer to fill a position which consists primarily of project implementation activities and upgrade programs with operational support responsibilities as required. The role will provide hands on opportunities with traditional and NextGen networking and network management technologies by supporting the refresh of our network estate. The ‘Follow The Sun’ support function is also adopted within the small team including on-call cover and is ideal for a network engineer who would like to enhance or maintain a broad technical skill set within the data networking arena. The candidate will be expected to deal with the various business divisions directly relating to operational support and incident management therefore experience of working in a corporate banking environment would be ideal.

Key Objectives critical to success of the role:

• The ideal candidate should have knowledge and experience of the various networking technologies commonly deployed within the Investment bank environment including Cisco Nexus 9000, Cisco Catalyst 9000 ,
• Possess relevant experience across enterprise and public cloud networking technologies
• Ability to demonstrate effective troubleshooting skills within the network arena providing support as required.
• Be able to pro-actively self manage project delivery and work as a team player
• Undertake respective incident management administration tasks
• Work closely with global engineering counterparts to deliver consistent, stable, scalable network solutions
• Ability to communicate effectively to business and technical stakeholders within the business for operational, project and deployment activities as well as have an appreciation of the risk associated with supporting a high-profile network environment.

Skills & Experience Required:

Candidate must have strong technical skills combined with the ability to work within a global team, must be a team player and have excellent communication skills. Must be self-motivated; be able to drive projects to meet agreed timescales whilst working with minimal supervision.

• Experienced network engineer qualified to CCNP/CCIE  level or above
• Strong network operations (complex troubleshooting) and deployment (project) experience within an enterprise/financial environment.
• Good knowledge and experience of core networking technologies including routing, switching, multicast, network security and network management on a Cisco IOS/NX-OS infrastructure
• Good knowledge of Cisco LAN architectures including working with Cisco Nexus platforms and EVPN/VXLAN & SDA deployments
• Familiar with utilising Cisco management platforms like DCNM & DNAC to manage configuration deployment
• Experience in the deployment and support of VPN solutions (Cisco ASA/Firepower/AnyConnect) to support both remote access and client/vendor services. 
• Extensive knowledge of network routing protocols, predominately OSPF & BGP and their deployment within a virtualised environment
• An understanding of Network Security including Fortinet competence for Firewall administration and support as well as ISE and NAC deployments as network authentication solutions
• Knowledge of WAN architectures
• Ability to support both LTM & GTM F5 load balancers,
• Experience of working with Wireless technologies including controllers and Access Points and associated management platforms
• Good working knowledge of Corvil deployments and dashboard configurations for packet captures .
• Experience of using protocol analysers &  decoding skills (Wireshark interpretation)
• Competent in using network monitoring tools (Opsware, SevOne, Corvil, ThousandEyes, SMARTS)
• Experience of using scripting languages i.e. Ansible/Python
• Good understanding of ITIL principles including Change Management best practices

Knowledge & experience to compensate the role:

• Investment Banking/Financial Services experience
• A knowledge of the key Market Data Services (Bloomberg, Reuters etc.) that are critical to the business and their methods of delivery.
• Exposure to cloud proxy solution like Zscaler
• Project management (design and implementation) of network projects
• Good competency of Unix and Windows OS

Nomura Leadership Behaviours

• Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.
• Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.
• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.
• Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.
• Inclusion: Respect DEI, foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

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.