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, Ireland, 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.
Position: Cloud Operations Engineer (Contractor)
The Cloud Operations Engineer is responsible for the support of complex Cloud solutions across Azure/AWS/GCP. Typical day-to-day workload would focus on the support and creation of Cloud resources, capacity management, service right sizing, financial governance such as reservations, monitoring, and request fulfillment. An ideal candidate will have background experience related to Cloud engineering or support, with experience in creating and updating infrastructure as code templates.
Role Objectives
* Finding and improving operational efficiencies to best suit Cloud resource delivery access management and security implementations.
* Support of production workloads within a multi-Cloud environment including monitoring, patching, backup, and restoration of Cloud resources.
* Delivery of Cloud infrastructure for partner solutions.
* Creation and support of automation and infrastructure as code solutions for resource creation and policy leveraging PowerShell, Azure DevOps, Ansible, and other approved corporate automation and orchestration platforms.
* Familiarity and experience in debugging of Databricks notebooks, general compute, SQL warehouses, and troubleshooting Data Factory pipeline workflows.
* Prior experience working with version control tools such as GitHub, Azure DevOps including repository management, pipeline as code, and SDLC workflows.
* Basic understanding/debugging experience in application infrastructure, databases, networking, and DNS.
* Familiarity with data analytics tools such as Databricks and Data Factory.
* Experience with deployment of data analytics infrastructure, onboarding, debugging pipelines, and core features.
* Work with internal teams and vendors on the integration of systems into the central ITSMITOM platform ServiceNow.
* Assist with migrations to cloud ensuring best practices are followed and architecture is compliant with company standards.
* Participate in the implementation of monitoring systems for event monitoring, alerting, and metrics.
* Discover opportunities to improve and simplify the infrastructure and supporting processes.
* Interface with support teams across all disciplines for collaborative implementations and knowledge sharing.
* Ensure handover of new/updated systems documentation to team providing 24x7x365 support.
Qualifications and Skills
* Proficiency in Cloud services related to one or more Cloud providers including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.
* Experience with infrastructure as code development in either Terraform, ARM, Bicep, or CloudFormation.
* Hands-on operational experience and knowledge with Azure or AWS.
* Experience with monitoring and log aggregation tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, ELK, etc.
* Fundamental understanding of public vs private networking in the Cloud.
* Sound knowledge of Git merging and branching strategies.
* Ability to execute proof of concepts and deploy complex solutions.
* Understanding of typical SDLC processes related to infrastructure.
* Basic understanding of Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence) is a plus.
* Strong PowerShell or other scripting experience, especially for automation.
* Prior experience with configuration management tools (Ansible preferred) and infrastructure-as-code tools (HashiCorp Terraform).
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate requirements and concepts to stakeholders.
* Strong technical ability for diagnosis, triage, troubleshooting, and problem analysis.
* Ability to influence and negotiate with business users, IT partners, and vendors.
* High-level customer service mindset and commitment to deliver quality results.
* Strong sense of urgency and accountability with exceptional time management skills.
* Comfortable in fast-paced environments with changing priorities and schedules.
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.
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.
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