Cloud SRE Lead

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Job details

Company overview

Our client is a major securities company in Japan, providing a wide range of financial services. Our primary activities include securities trading, asset management, and investment banking, offering a diverse array of financial products to both individual and corporate clients. Leveraging our deep knowledge of domestic and international markets and our expertise in advanced analysis, we support our clients' investment strategies. Through research and advisory services, we contribute to our clients' asset formation and management. Utilizing our global financial network, we offer services that adapt to various market conditions.

Responsibilities

This company is a global financial services group with an integrated global network spanning over 30 countries. Japan IT (Information Technology) is a diverse environment with employees of over 25 nationalities, who work on technical support, application development and implementation of system changes for Japan Retail Wealth Management Business and Global Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking). It provides competitive employee benefits, training and upskilling opportunities, and is committed to promoting diversity, equity and inclusion, employee health and well-being.
Main responsibilities:

• The business is strategically putting focus and efforts on transforming platform to cloud-based systems taking Hybrid Cloud model, delivering automate deployment capability in self-service.
• Cloud Services is part of Infrastructure department in Wholesale technology, and is responsible for build, operates and manages infrastructure platform and various services stacks on both on premise Private and Public Cloud collaborating other IT functions.
• The successful candidate will be working as part of Global Cloud Services together with colleagues across the globe, to work on continuous improvement and enhancement on Cloud platform to contribute and accelerate the cloud adaption.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• Lead, build, test and deliver new services and improvement on supported Cloud platform and services, adhering Nomura standard policy and guideline.
• Work as part of the Global Cloud Operations team providing 24x7 support to the user community according to the Follow The Sun Support (FTSS) model, which includes an on-call rotation and potential weekend work as needed
• Effectively develop and maintain robust scripts, tools and templates to automate common tasks and resolve technical problems using agile development methods
• Engage with application teams throughout the lifecycle to provide reliable and scalable Cloud platform and services.
• Collaboratively work with Engineering function and other IT teams to discuss and agree on the enhancement and improvement to address challenges or issues.
• Work in hybrid environment with applications being hosted internally and on cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, or Google)
• Contribute on documenting operational run books, and give coaching to team members as required.

Salary

8 - 12 million yen

Location

Tokyo