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By connecting markets East & West, we service the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through our four business divisions: Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking) and Banking.\nDriven by the insights of some 28,000 people worldwide, we put our clients at the center of everything we do, delivering unparalleled access to, from and within Asia. For further information about Nomura, visit www.nomura.com\nDepartment Overview\nGlobal Execution Services (GES) team is a specialized execution consulting and trading group that provides agency brokerage, algorithmic trading, and execution strategy solutions to institutional clients. 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As part of the 24/7 service be responsible for incident and change management and provide technical guidance to other members of the team or other infrastructure teams.\nResponsibilities\nFull life cycle management of all Linux systems\nProvide technical excellence and guidance in best practice\nActively seeking opportunities to improve the processes, technologies and stability of the Linux estate.\nPerforming routine system maintenance\nAuditing & implementing remediation actions to comply with IT Governance policies and procedures.\nPerforming root cause problem investigations and implementation remediation.\nUse Jira & ServiceNow to coordinate department activities and be able to develop dashboards and reports that measure success.\nWork to deliver new technology such that its adoption and configuration is standard between all regions and collaborate with development groups to enable the features meeting the needs of the company.\nPartaking in On-Call Rota (Inc. 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