Senior DevOps Engineer - Azure

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.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $153,000.00and $181,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire.

The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

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 first-level production support.

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

Role Objectives

• Participate in full lifecycle development of software and implement all DevOps procedures to 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.
• Evaluate and monitor infrastructure resources to guarantee proper operation of the CI / CD pipeline.
• 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.
• Triage of software issues from the Help Desk, disseminating requests to developers as appropriate and assisting with the deployment of fixes and enhancements.
• Monitoring of Systems' operational processes, escalating and facilitating failure resolution as appropriate.
• Design, execution and monitoring of automated testing and regression suites, reporting results 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 Action, test automation, static code analysis, Artifactory and release management processes.
• 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.
• Proficient in containers and orchestration technologies (Docker, K8s, OpenShift, ARO / EKS).
• Proficient in at least two of the following Windows batch / PowerShell, bash, Python and Jenkins / Ansible / Puppet (IaC).
• Experience with Cloud solutions i.e. AWS (VPC, EC2, S3, ECS, EKS, RDS, ALB / NLB) / Azure (VNet, private Link, Blob storage, Azure SQL, Web App, Data Factory, ACS, AKS, ARO).
• Experience with networking (TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, DNS, TLS, HTTP, SSH, NAT, firewall, load balancing, etc).
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in a collaborative environment.
• A curiosity concerning technology and the ability to learn new systems and tools quickly.

Desired Skills :

• Experience working with relational databases / SQL and no-SQL, other database technologies are a plus.
• Experience with code-quality (SonarQube, Github Enterprise Advanced Security, Jfrog Artifactory Xray).
• Experience with application telemetry, monitoring and alerting solutions (Splunk, LogicMonitor, AWS CloudWatch, Azure Insight or similar).

Additional Requirements

D&I Commitment

Responsible for fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion, holding leaders accountable for creating an inclusive environment through awareness and practice of equity in recruiting, developing, and promoting diverse talent.

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.

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at [email protected].