Job Title:  Senior Cryptography and Encryption Operations Specialist

Job Title: Senior Cryptography and Encryption Operations Specialist

Corporate Title: Associate

Department: Technology

Location: New York

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $120,000 and $150,000 annually.

Company 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.

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Department Overview:

The Information Technology department at Nomura is at the forefront of innovation, driving technology solutions that empower our business and enhance client experiences. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to develop and maintain robust systems and infrastructure, ensuring the security, reliability, and efficiency of our operations. Join our team and be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment that embraces technological advancements to deliver value and drive our digital transformation journey.               

Role Overview:

Nomura is seeking an experienced operations specialist to support and enhance its global cryptographic infrastructure. This role underpins the security of the firm’s trading, settlement, and client-facing platforms by ensuring robust, reliable, and compliant use of encryption technologies across the organisation. We are looking for someone with strong operational discipline, excellent analytical capability, and hands-on expertise managing hardware security modules and public key infrastructure in complex financial environments.

The role sits within the global Identity and Access Management team and plays a key part in safeguarding the firm’s trading, operational, and client-facing platforms. This is a hybrid position based in Mumbai, with two mandatory office days each week.

You will be working as part of a follow-the-sun operational model with colleagues in Japan, India, EMEA, and the US. You will be expected to provide BAU support once every four weeks as part of the rota (including weekends), and spend the remaining time delivering projects, enhancements, and handovers received from the Engineering team.

Role Description:

• Provide technical operational leadership for cryptographic and data-protection platforms including Key Management Services, Public Key Infrastructure and HSMs.
• Provide technical operational leadership for Privileged Access and MFA tooling such as: CyberArk Privileged Access Management, and MFA technologies such as Duo or SecurID.
• Work with engineering to support the delivery of new services and platform improvements to existing platforms to enhance resilience, automation, and operational efficiency.
• In an L2/L3 capacity, operate, maintain and resolve operational issues with Nomura’s Key Management and Public Key Infrastructure platforms including Key Management Services, HSMs and PKI components (CLMs, RAs, VAs, CAs, etc) through a follow-the-sun model.
• Support day-to-day operational ceremonies required for Key Management and PKI, such as high-assurance key-signing ceremonies, key lifecycle and inventory management.
• Support teams deploying key management and public key infrastructure to enable data protection and Identity needs in-line with solutions developed by engineering.
• Maintain high-quality operational documentation, runbooks, and incident response procedures.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to junior operations staff within the operations group.

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

• Minimum 7 years’ experience operating Key Management and Public Key infrastructure in a financial-services or other high-security environment.
• Strong understanding of how key management and PKI operate to enable data protection and identity capabilities.
• Demonstrable hands-on experience with HSM platforms (e.g. Thales, Utimaco, Entrust, or equivalent).
• Demonstrable hand-on experience with Key Management Systems (e.g. Entrust KeyControl and Thales Cipher Trust Manager)
• Expertise operating enterprise PKI including detailed technical understanding.
• Familiarity with cloud cryptographic services in regulated environments (e.g. AWS KMS, Azure Key Vault, or GCP KMS).
• Strong operational background with rigorous change management, incident handling, and availability requirements (ITIL familiarity preferred).
• Scripting or automation skills (Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar).
• Infrastructure as code familiarity (Terraform, Ansible, etc)
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management capability across global teams.
• Proven ability to operate in time-sensitive, business-critical environments supporting trading and operational systems.
• Exposure to major transformation programs involving PKI redesign, HSM migrations, or cryptographic automation.
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or vendor-specific qualifications.
• Excellent English communication skills: written, verbal, and presentation.
• Willingness to work in a fast-paced environment with changing priorities.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong self-motivation, enthusiasm, and rapid learning capability.
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills.
• Ability to use initiative to resolve issues without escalation.
• Strong interpersonal skills, teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation ability.
• Sound business and analytical problem-solving capability.
• Ability to tailor technical explanations to different levels of the organization

Nomura Competencies

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• Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.

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• 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

• Foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).

*base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, corporate and functional title and duties, job-related knowledge and advanced degrees, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, discretionary awards and eligibility for commissions for applicable sales roles in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired in the U.S., employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors”.

Nomura is an Equal Opportunity Employer