About this role
<p><u><b>Overview:</b></u><br> <br> 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 <a href="http://www.nomura.com">www.nomura.com</a><br> <br> Nomura Services India, (Powai) supports Nomura’s businesses around the world. Powai’ s world class capabilities in trading support, research, information technology, financial control, operations, risk management and legal support have played a key role in facilitating Nomura’s global operations and are an integral part of Nomura’s global expansion plans. The Powai operation is a critical part of the platform to support the growth of Nomura’s global business.</p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Role Overview:</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif"> </span></u></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Engineer and automate database platforms build and administration tasks</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Automate database & operating system version upgrades and security patching.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Automate database failover and failback</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Automate database, user, and security management</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Customize database vendor product to best fit Nomura environment </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Automate database audit and compliance data collection</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Automate and manage database CMDB property management</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Follow Agile development method for automation</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Enhance and maintain existing homegrown database management tools like Self Service Portal, CopyDB etc</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Enhance and maintain database microservice API platform</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Database infrastructure lifecycle and vulnerability management</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Troubleshoot production database automation jobs, track failures and rollout fix.</span></li> </ul> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Collaborate with production support team and implement database automation solutions for new and existing databases.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Willingness to learn and adapt to new technologies and methodologies</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Willingness to work in global team & weekend support on need basis </span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Required Experience & Skills</span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> </span></u></strong></p> <p style="line-height:14.0pt;background-color:white;margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Calibri Light', sans-serif;color:#222222">Required Experience </span></u></strong></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="color:#222222;line-height:14.0pt;background-color:white;margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:'Calibri Light', sans-serif">11-14 Years of relevant experience</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm;text-align:justify;text-indent:0.0cm;font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:13.0pt"> </span></u></strong></p> <p style="margin:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">The candidate must have the following skills and experience:</span></p> <ul style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm" type="disc"> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Expert in development and rollout of Ansible playbook, plugin, roles and template deployment on Ansible Tower</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Expert in automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Shell Scripts, FastAPI, Gunicorn, Flask microservice and version control with Git Repository</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Experience using Gitlab CI/CD for automated testing. Knowledge of Jenkins will be an added advantage</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Experience of managing project using JIRA, Kanban & Structure Board</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Experience of handing complex platform and database automation project</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Hands on knowledge of DBA task of RDBMS MSSQL, MySQL, Oracle. MongoDB, Aurora and AWS RDS knowledge will be added advantage.</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) using tools like Terraform</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Hands on experience with Linux (RedHat 9.x or 8.x) </span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Knowledge of VMware platform & Redhat OpenShift</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Exposure to large scale IT infrastructure automation and support</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">ITIL experience including change and incident management using SNOW</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Experience in dashboarding tools e.g. PowerBI/Grafana & TOM will be an advantage</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions), will be an advantage</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Knowledge of enterprise level Job scheduling using Autosys will be added advantage</span></li> <li style="margin-top:0.0cm;margin-right:0.0cm;margin-bottom:0.0cm;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif">Excellent English written, verbal, and presentation skills</span></li> </ul> <p style="margin:0.0cm 0.0cm 0.0cm 18.0pt;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif"> </p><p><u><b>Equal Opportunity Employer:</b></u><br> <br> Nomura is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees (including promotion, transfers, assignments and beliefs). We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, career’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age. Our objective is to attract job applications and applications for development from the best possible candidates and to retain the best people.</p>