Associate - AWS Cloud Engineer

Nomura 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 supports the group’s global businesses. With world-class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support, the firm plays a key role in facilitating the group’s global operations.

Nomura Services, India is a core center of excellence powering the group's global businesses. With world-class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support, the firm plays a key role in shaping, strengthening, and accelerating Nomura's global operations.

At Nomura, creating an inclusive workplace is a priority. Our approach to inclusion encompasses a variety of initiatives, including sensitization campaigns, implementing conducive policies & programs, providing infrastructure support, and engaging in community events. Over time, we have made meaningful progress in these areas, and this commitment has been well-recognized across the industry. We are proud recipients of the prestigious Top 10 Employers award by the India Workplace Equality Index (IWEI), IWEI Gold Employer of Choice awards, India CSR Leadership Award 2024 for Holistic Village Development Program, and the YUVA Unstoppable Changemaker Awards 2021.

Division: Information Technology

Location: Powai, Mumbai, India

Role Overview:

Cloud Engineering & Architecture team member

The role is based out of Mumbai, India and will be part of the Nomura Service India Pvt Ltd. This role will be a member of Global Public Cloud team, working on Design, Engineering & Automation of Nomura’s AWS platform

With an objective to ensure a highly automated, scalable & user-friendly AWS environment, the candidate will work on various projects & deliveries in the AWS Public Cloud workstream

Role Specifics

• Corporate Title: Associate

• Functional Title: Sr.Engineer/ Lead Engineer

Required Experience & Skills

• Overall experience of 5-7 years working on AWS in a design and/or Devops engineering role with proven experience of design, deployment and enterprise scale implementation on AWS
• 3-5 years of experience in building or operating a multi account AWS Landing Zone working with the AWS Governance suite of services including:
• AWS Control Tower & AFT
• Creation of new AWS accounts process
• AWS Service Catalogue
• AWS Organizations
• IAM roles, policies, Permissions Boundaries, Resource Based Policies and Service Control Policies (SCPs)
• AWS Config
• AWS Networking constructs – VPC, Subnets, Route tables, direct connect, Direct Connect gateways, DHCP, DNS & Route 53
• AWS Identity constructs – SSO via IdP federation
• AWS Logging and monitoring concepts – CloudTrail, CloudWatch, s3 replication, bucket policies
• AWS Images – AMI’s and AMI build processes
• 3-5 years of experience in Code development using AWS SDK/Boto and Python
• Proficient in writing Terraform IAC for AWS Cloud
• Good Working experience with Gitlab Enterprise and Version control best practices
• Experience in documenting designs, system & process workflows in JIRA / Confluence
• Hands-on experience of Designing, testing, and deploying/implementing landing zone modular constructs for provisioning accounts according to defined policy and best practice. This should be implemented on a foundation based upon AWS Control Tower and Account Factory for Terraform.
• Creative use of available tools to efficiently produce solutions in the cloud technology space.
• Experience with Enterprise Security requirements is a plus
• Requires clear & precise communication
• AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate or Professional

Key Responsibilities and Duties:

• Architecture and design for creation of AWS account constructs in control tower
• Implementation of controls at OU/Account level, including SCP's and permissions boundary
• Integration between Control Tower and on premise Terraform Enterprise for account factory for terraform
• Design and build standardized Terraform modules to manage core account constructs for network connectivity, monitoring, identity, and governance. Eg, VPC/Subnets, CloudTrail, CloudWatch, IdP SSO etc.
• Design, build, and integrations with shared services such as Route 53, Direct Connect Gateways, API gateways
• Development of Cloud platform Roadmaps and driving the continued evolution of AWS cloud
• Patterns for interaction and integration with existing Nomura systems such as CMDB or observability platforms such as Prometheus/Grafana stack
• Writing microservices/serverless architectures that can provide integration to Nomura systems such as IPAM and others.

We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.

*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.

*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company’s policies as may be applicable from time to time).