Senior Cryptography and Encryption Operations Specialist

Job Title: Senior Cryptography and Encryption Operations Specialist

Corporate Title: Associate

Department: Technology

Location: New York

 

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $120,000 and $150,000 annually.

 

Company 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.

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Department Overview:

The Information Technology department at Nomura is at the forefront of innovation, driving technology solutions that empower our business and enhance client experiences. We leverage cutting-edge technologies to develop and maintain robust systems and infrastructure, ensuring the security, reliability, and efficiency of our operations. Join our team and be part of a dynamic and collaborative environment that embraces technological advancements to deliver value and drive our digital transformation journey.               

Role Overview:

Nomura is seeking an experienced operations specialist to support and enhance its global cryptographic infrastructure. This role underpins the security of the firm’s trading, settlement, and client-facing platforms by ensuring robust, reliable, and compliant use of encryption technologies across the organisation. We are looking for someone with strong operational discipline, excellent analytical capability, and hands-on expertise managing hardware security modules and public key infrastructure in complex financial environments.

The role sits within the global Identity and Access Management team and plays a key part in safeguarding the firm’s trading, operational, and client-facing platforms. This is a hybrid position based in Mumbai, with two mandatory office days each week.

You will be working as part of a follow-the-sun operational model with colleagues in Japan, India, EMEA, and the US. You will be expected to provide BAU support once every four weeks as part of the rota (including weekends), and spend the remaining time delivering projects, enhancements, and handovers received from the Engineering team.

Role Description:

• Provide technical operational leadership for cryptographic and data-protection platforms including Key Management Services, Public Key Infrastructure and HSMs.
• Provide technical operational leadership for Privileged Access and MFA tooling such as: CyberArk Privileged Access Management, and MFA technologies such as Duo or SecurID.
• Work with engineering to support the delivery of new services and platform improvements to existing platforms to enhance resilience, automation, and operational efficiency.
• In an L2/L3 capacity, operate, maintain and resolve operational issues with Nomura’s Key Management and Public Key Infrastructure platforms including Key Management Services, HSMs and PKI components (CLMs, RAs, VAs, CAs, etc) through a follow-the-sun model.
• Support day-to-day operational ceremonies required for Key Management and PKI, such as high-assurance key-signing ceremonies, key lifecycle and inventory management.
• Support teams deploying key management and public key infrastructure to enable data protection and Identity needs in-line with solutions developed by engineering.
• Maintain high-quality operational documentation, runbooks, and incident response procedures.
• Support internal and external audits.
• Provide technical guidance and coaching to junior operations st