Lead Infrastructure Operations & Services

Job Code: 12477

Country: IN

City: Mumbai

Skill Category: IT\Technology

Description:

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.

Required Experience & Skills

Essential to have most of the following:

3 - 8 years of relevant experience

Knowledge/experience of using Terraform and Ansible

Scripting and Automation skills (e.g. Python, Shell scripting, PowerShell, Powercli)

Experience on VMware platform or Redhat OpenShift

Exposure to large scale IT infrastructure support

OS Platform knowledge Linux (RedHat 9.x or 8.x) OR Windows (2019, 2022)

ITIL experience including change and incident management preferred

Excellent English written, verbal, and presentation skills

Experience in observability / dashboading tools e.g. PowerBI/Grafana, will be an advantage

CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), will be an advantage

Japanese language knowledge will be an advantage

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

Handle Asia & Europe shifts to support of cloud services through follow-the-sun support model

Participate in on-call rotation and provide weekend coverage as required

Respond to and resolve incidents, outages, and performance issues within defined SLAs

Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) using tools like Terraform

Develop and maintain automation scripts for routine operational tasks

Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployments

Conduct post-incident reviews and implement preventive measures

Create and maintain technical documentation and runbooks

Plan and execute infrastructure changes following established procedures

Coordinate with stakeholders for scheduled maintenance windows

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.