Vice President, DevOps 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, 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


As a DevOps Engineer you will play a critical role binding the gap between development and operations. You will have a development background and work closely with our software engineering, QA, infrastructure and security teams to design, implement and maintain a robust and scalable platform solution to support mission-critical financial applications. Your expertise will ensure the seamless deployment of applications, while maintaining the highest levels of security, compliance and performance.

• Tooling development: help to build out the engineering platform that assists in improving developer experience and productivity.
• Platform development: help to build out the platform services.
• CICD Pipeline Management: design, develop and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines to streamline the software development process.
• Infrastructure as Code - Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and Ansible to automate the provision and management of infrastructure.
• Monitoring & Logging: develop and maintain comprehensive monitoring and logging solutions to ensure the reliability and performance of production systems.
• Security & Compliance: collaborate with security teams to integrate security best practices into the DevOps processes, ensuring that all systems meet the stringent compliance requirements of the bank.
• Cloud and on-premise Infrastructure: manage both Cloud based (Azure) and on-premise (OpenShift/VM's) infrastructure, ensuring high availability and disaster recovery readiness.
• Collaboration: work closely with development, QA, security and operations teams to ensure smooth and reliable application delivery and set best practice guidelines wherever possible.
• Environment Stability: take part in the DevOps team Rota to monitor alerts across environments, reporting on issues and improving the monitoring stack as required.
• Release and DR: deploy scheduled releases after EOD and DR weekend checkouts when required.

Qualifications and Skills

• At least 5 years as a developer (ideally Java)
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge and relevant experience
• Experience with monitoring and alerting technologies
• Strong IaC knowledge and relevant experience
• Experience with GoLang and React preferred
• Financial Industry knowledge
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, QA, security, and operations
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (Master's preferred)

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. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.


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 [email protected].