Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

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. 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

The Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for the support of complex Cloud solutions across Azure/AWS/GCP. Typical day-to-day workload would focus on the development and creation of automations to support the delivery of Cloud resources, management, and consumption in an enterprise environment. An ideal candidate will have background experience related to Cloud engineering or Cloud development, with experience in automated solutions against a Azure Cloud.

Role Objectives

This role is responsible for the creation of automated solutions and support regarding SMBC Americas Cloud platforms, notably Azure, across all SMBC/Group Company entities in the Americas and EMEA Division. This role requires experience of Microsoft Azure engineering with a heavy focus on automation.
•    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, but not limited to 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.
•    Sound familiarity with orchestration and automation practices at scale, with a heavy emphasis on designing solutions for other teams to consume.
•    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 when it comes to application infrastructure, databases, networking, and DNS.
•    Design, creation and maintenance of complex Infrastructure as Code and Pipelines as Code solutions in a highly reusable capacity. 
•    Work with internal teams and vendors on the integration of a diverse set of systems into the central ITSM/ITOM platform, ServiceNow.
•    Participate in the automated implementation of monitoring systems, for event monitoring, alerting and metrics.
•    Discover opportunities and help facilitate a mechanism to change, evolve, improve, and simplify the infrastructure and supporting processes/procedures.
•    Directly interface with support teams across all disciplines, to facilitate a closer relationship 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.
•    Strong automation skillset with the ability to identify and create automation workflows.
•    Strong PowerShell or other scripting experience, especially with the goal of automation.
•    Experience with infrastructure as code development and iteration in either Terraform/ARM/Bicep/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.
•    Basic knowledge of foundational IT tooling across a wealth of domains to facilitate understanding of automation creation.
•    Fundamental understanding of public vs private networking in the Cloud.
•    Strong knowledge on Git merging and branching strategies.
•    Ability to execute