DevOps Engineer

Job description

SMBC Group is a top-tier global financial group.

Headquartered in Tokyo and with a 400-year history, SMBC Group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance.

The Group has more than 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries.

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

(SMFG) is the holding company of SMBC Group, which is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan.

SMFG’s shares trade on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York (NYSE: SMFG) stock exchanges.

In the Americas, SMBC Group has a presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.

Backed by the capital strength of SMBC Group and the value of its relationships in Asia, the Group offers a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients.

It connects a diverse client base to local markets and the organization’s extensive global network.

The Group’s operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.

(SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities America, Inc., SMBC Capital Markets, Inc., SMBC MANUBANK, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

**Role Description**

In this DevOps role you will have responsibility for creating systems and tools to assist the Software Development Team with building and deploying software, conducting automated testing, and assisting with level-3 production application support and development teams.

In addition, you will have responsibility for developing systems and tools to assist the Software Development Teams in provisioning, configuring and deploying virtual infrastructure, including HA, load balancers, servers, workstations, databases, etc.

**Role Objectives**

- Participate in full lifecycle development of SDLC and implement all DevOps procedures to manage and support the CI/CD process including the automation of the build, test, deploy pipelines and configuration management.
- Employ best practices for designing automation processes and utilities that can be easily used by the development teams.
- Design and develop a best practice release management process that employs separation of control and proper approvals.
- Closely partner with the security and infrastructure teams to incorporate corporate standards into the CI/CD and provisioning processes.
- Maintaining source control management system and integrating it with software build and deployment.
- Responsibility for the build environment: resolve build issues, help coordinate complex software test environments and software releases.
- Monitoring of Applications operational processes, escalating and facilitating failure resolution as appropriate.

**Qualifications and Skills**

- 5+ years of professional experience of working with the full software development life cycle and designing/developing best practice CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, Ansible (IaC), Terraform/CloudFormation, K8s, test automation, static code analysis, Artifactory and release management processes.
- Proficient in at least two of the following Windows batch/PowerShell, bash, Python.
- Knowledgeable about networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, NAT, firewall, load balancing, etc).
- Strong experience with managing and support of Windows/Linux Servers.
- Good understanding of deployment of various platforms such as web/REST API, messaging bus/queue, application services, Microservices and Cloud Serverless components/managed platform.
- Experience working with relational databases/SQL and no-SQL, other database technologies are a plus.
- A curiosity concerning technology and the ability to learn new systems and tools quickly.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.

Desired Skills:
- Experience with Cloud solutions i.e Azure (VNet, privateLink, Blob storage, Azure SQL, Web App, Data Factory, ACS, AKS, ARO, SQL Server/Cosmos) / AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, Route53, ECS, EKS, RDS, ALB/NLB) /
- Experience with code-quality (SonarQube, GitHub Enterprise Advanced Security/CodeQL, Jfrog Artifactory + Xray).
- Experience with containers and orchestration technologies (Docker, K8s, OpenShift).
- Experience with application telemetry, monitoring and alerting solutions (Splunk, LogicMonitor, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Insight or similar).

**Additional Requirements**

SMBC’s employees participate in a Hybrid workforce model that provides employees with an opportunity to work from home, as well as, from an SMBC office.

SMBC requires that employees live within a reasonable commuting distance of their office location.

Prospective candidates will learn more about their specific hybrid work schedule during their interview process.

Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.
EOE, including Disability/veterans

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