Infrastructure and Platform Engineer

Nomura is looking for a Backup & Storage Engineering team member who will be part of Nomura's Backup & Storage systems. The candidate will be responsible for design, engineering, and automation of Nomura's backup platform on-premises and on the public cloud.

With an objective to ensure a highly automated, scalable, and user-friendly backup platform, the candidate will work on various projects and deliveries in the Backup & Storage work stream.

Required Experience & Skills:

• Automation Orchestration: Strong proficiency with Ansible Core and Ansible Tower (AWX), including job templates, workflows, and dynamic inventories.
• Programming Languages: Advanced Python scripting skills, specifically using libraries for API consumption (requests), data manipulation (pandas), and testing.
• Version Control: Hands-on experience with Git and CI/CD pipeline (GitLab/Jenkins) to integrate automation workflows and streamline deployment.
• Cloud: Experience of backup and storage workloads on public cloud like AWS.
• Data & Reporting: Experience in reporting/dashboard tools like Power BI/Grafana and manipulating JSON, XML, and CSV data formats to generate executive-ready performance metrics (added advantage).
• Backup Architecture: Hands-on administration and knowledge of NetBackup (added advantage).
• Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure and deployment issues.
• Documenting system designs and process workflows.
• Clear and precise communication.

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Develop, test, and deploy Ansible playbooks and roles to automate daily NetBackup operations.
• Create reusable, secure Ansible roles/modules for backup agent deployment, policy management, and client updates.
• Manage, schedule, and orchestrate complex infrastructure workflows using Ansible Tower.
• Write clean, maintainable Python scripts to interact with NetBackup APIs (RESTful APIs).
• Build custom integrations between Ansible Tower, NetBackup/Public Cloud, and ServiceNow ticketing/monitoring systems.
• Design and automate the generation of daily, weekly, and monthly backup reports and dashboards.
• Manage all infrastructure code and automation scripts using Git and maintain repositories within GitLab, ensuring version control standards and collaboration best practices are followed.
• Work closely with development and operations teams to define infrastructure standards, troubleshoot complex issues efficiently, and ensure seamless software releases.
• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all automated systems and processes and drive the adoption of DevOps and SRE best practices.

Nomura Leadership Behaviours:

• Explore Insights & Vision: Identify the underlying causes of problems faced by you or your team and define a clear vision and direction for the future.
• Making Strategic Decisions: Evaluate all the options for resolving the problems and effectively prioritize actions or recommendations.
• Inspire Entrepreneurship in People: Inspire team members through effective communication of ideas and motivate them to actively enhance productivity.
• Elevate Organizational Capability: Engage proactively in professional development and enhance team productivity through the promotion of knowledge sharing.
• Inclusion: Respect DEI, foster a culture of inclusion and psychological safety in the workplace, and cultivate a "Risk Culture" (Challenge, Escalate and Respect).