Principal Infrastructure and Platform Engineer

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.

Role Overview:

• Engineer and automate database platforms build and administration tasks
• Automate database & operating system version upgrades and security patching.
• Automate database failover and failback
• Automate database, user, and security management
• Customize database vendor product to best fit Nomura environment
• Automate database audit and compliance data collection
• Automate and manage database CMDB property management
• Follow Agile development method for automation
• Enhance and maintain existing homegrown database management tools like Self Service Portal, CopyDB etc
• Enhance and maintain database microservice API platform
• Database infrastructure lifecycle and vulnerability management
• Troubleshoot production database automation jobs, track failures and rollout fix.

• Collaborate with production support team and implement database automation solutions for new and existing databases.
• Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies
• Willingness to work in global team & weekend support on need basis

Required Experience & Skills

Required Experience

• 11-14 Years of relevant experience

The candidate must have the following skills and experience:

• Expert in development and rollout of Ansible playbook, plugin, roles and template deployment on Ansible Tower
• Expert in automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Shell Scripts, FastAPI, Gunicorn, Flask microservice and version control with Git Repository
• Experience using Gitlab CI/CD for automated testing. Knowledge of Jenkins will be an added advantage
• Experience of managing project using JIRA, Kanban & Structure Board
• Experience of handing complex platform and database automation project
• Hands on knowledge of DBA task of RDBMS MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle. MongoDB, Aurora and AWS RDS knowledge will be added advantage.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) using tools like Terraform
• Hands on experience with Linux (RedHat 9.x or 8.x)
• Knowledge of VMware platform & Redhat OpenShift
• Exposure to large scale IT infrastructure automation and support
• ITIL experience including change and incident management using SNOW
• Experience in dashboarding tools e.g. PowerBI/Grafana & TOM will be an advantage
• CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), will be an advantage
• Knowledge of enterprise level Job scheduling using Autosys will be added advantage
• Excellent English written, verbal, and presentation skills

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.