Senior Cloud Engineer - Azure

 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, 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.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $166,000.00 and $203,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for the deployment and support of complex Cloud solutions across the Azure Cloud provider. Typical day-to-day workload would focus on overseeing and participating in the development, delivery, and management of Cloud resources in an enterprise environment. An ideal candidate will have a strong background in Cloud engineering or Cloud development, with experience in providing technical expertise to Agile teams.

Role Objectives

This role is responsible for the deployment and management of services regarding SMBC Americas Cloud platforms, notably Azure, across all SMBC/Group Company entities in the Americas and EMEA Division. This role blends hands-on Microsoft Azure engineering with architectural leadership and team mentorship. 
•    Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available Azure Cloud architectures for enterprise applications.
•    Provide technical leadership and guidance to support the delivery of Cloud resources
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to drive cloud adoption, automation, and operational excellence.
•    Conduct architectural reviews, proof-of-concepts, and cost-optimization assessments.
•    Ensure disaster recovery and business continuity planning are embedded in infrastructure designs.
•    Maintain and update cloud documentation, diagrams, and design specifications.
•    Finding and improving operational efficiencies to best suit Cloud resource delivery, access management and security implementations.
•    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.
•    Champion best practices in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, and DevOps methodologies. 
•    Oversee team processes related version control tools such as GitHub / Azure DevOps, including repository management, pipeline as code, and SDLC workflows.
•    Design, creation and maintenance of complex Infrastructure as Code and Pipelines as Code solutions in a highly reusable capacity. 
•    Participate in the automated implementation of monitoring systems, for event monitoring, alerting and metrics.
•    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.
•    Well-rounded understanding of Azure infrastructure
•    Understanding of Azure application infrastructure design and implementation
•    Proven experience leading engineering teams or technical projects.
•    Firm understanding of and experience working under Agile concepts, especially pertaining to SAFe application development
•    Experience with infrast