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Job Title:  Principal Infrastructure and Platform Engineer

Job Code:  8767
Country:  CN
City:  Shanghai
Skill Category:  IT\Technology
Description: 

Department overview:

Group Software Engineering, part of Group Platform Services and Engineering, is responsible for Nomura Holdings wide implementation across several domains, including the SDLC Toolchain, Curated Enterprise Pipelines, and Core Application tools. These domains are further broken down into CI/CD, Containerization, Static Security Scanning, Code Review, Code Repository, and Application Deployment. The team spans across the globe and works with various other Wholesale, Retail and affiliate Engineering and Platform teams.

 

Role description:

Based in Shanghai, this position will be part of the Group Platform Service and Engineering - Software Engineering team and will fit within the existing Engineering and Site Reliability Engineers. Within the team we will have, Software Engineers Developers, and Site Reliability Engineers, and a thin layer of Operations, forming a true DevOps team.

This role focuses on Core application runtime capabilities and would be considered for the Application Owner as well, based on seniority.

The overall strategy is critical to group wide capability enhancements and is an opportunity to apply and learn industry leading technologies, practices in a diverse environment.

Nomura is committed to providing applicable training and skill development opportunities.

 

Responsibilities:

  • Analysing user requirements and creating/adapting software solutions that meet those requirements.
  • Maintain and enhance software systems using programming languages such as Java, Python, JavaScript, and others.
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure that software systems are delivered effectively and meet quality standards.
  • Documenting software design, development, and maintenance processes to facilitate knowledge transfer and maintenance, with a focus on reliability leveraging DevOps principles.
  • Keeping up to date with new technologies and industry trends to ensure that software systems remain competitive.
  • Troubleshooting issues that arise with software systems and working to resolve them as quickly as possible.
  • Developing and maintaining technical documentation, including user manuals and technical specifications.

In addition to these technical responsibilities, possess strong communication skills and be able to work collaboratively with others. Support members are engineers who specialize in support and can provide guidance to project managers and other stakeholders.

 

Skills, experience, qualifications and knowledge required:

Mandatory：

 

  • Experience with Linux/Unix Shell Scripting
  • Ability to do technical presentation to within the team.
  • Basic Level English and Above
  • Capable in various programming languages and tools, such as Python, JavaScript.
  • Able to learn new monitoring frameworks, enhance Knowledge base, and contribute to the maintenance and enhancement various systems.
  • Experience in automation, continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure as code (IaC) tools, such as Jenkins, Ansible, and Terraform.
  • Track record of cross regional and cross team collaboration

 

Preferred：

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or proven equivalent experience.
  • 5+ years of development experience with Python OR 5+ years of Core Java development experience
  • Experience integrating RESTful APIs
  • Experience developing applications for public/private/hybrid clouds.
  • Development experience of any of these technologies
    • AWS cloud
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
  • Practical experience of enterprise Change and Incident Management (ITIL or similar)

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