Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Nomura Holdings, inc.•Philadelphia, PA

1d•$130,000 - $160,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer at Nomura, you will take a leading role in end-to-end solution delivery for strategic platforms that deliver value for our business and engineering teams. In this role, you will be a subject matter expert in our Cloud platform and contribute to its roadmaps and features, drive operational excellence and make the platforms easier for the broader engineering community to consume. Your work will center around AWS, Kubernetes (EKS), and Terraform and will contribute to the evolution of our cloud control plane and foundational infrastructure and platform capabilities as the organization migrates into a new cloud environment. You will develop and support User Experiences for our platforms, contribute to Cloud-related frameworks and practices, and collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams to evolve the platforms and foundational engineering patterns and achieve enterprise-level synergies. You will achieve a high degree of self-service and ease-of-use for application development teams while maintaining robust enterprise governance and control frameworks.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline, or equivalent work experience.
4+ years of professional experience in Cloud, DevOps, SRE, Platform, or similar roles.
Expertise with Cloud Infrastructure in AWS (core services, networking, IAM, etc.)
Expertise with Kubernetes and related technologies (EKS, Docker, Helm, Flux)
Expertise with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly using Terraform
Expertise with CICD, particularly using Gitlab
Expertise with Observability, particularly using LTGM (Grafana, Loki, Mimir/Prometheus, Tempo).
Proficiency in Python and/or Go for building pipelines and microservices
Working knowledge of databases, APIs, and modern authentication/authorization mechanisms.
Familiarity with Linux, shell scripting, load balancing, and networking/OS concepts.
Ability to design solutions considering user experience, automation, security, performance, resilience, cost, scale, and reusability.
Understanding of design patterns, testing methodologies, and the overall SDLC.
Comfort in proposing designs, gathering feedback, building reusable solutions, and documenting them effectively.
Experience using AI from both a personal productivity standpoint as well as a platform-productivity standpoint.

Responsibilities

Take a leading role in end-to-end solution delivery for strategic platforms.
Be a subject matter expert in the Cloud platform and contribute to its roadmaps and features.
Drive operational excellence and make platforms easier for the broader engineering community to consume.
Contribute to the evolution of the cloud control plane and foundational infrastructure and platform capabilities.
Develop and support User Experiences for platforms.
Contribute to Cloud-related frameworks and practices.
Collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams to evolve platforms and foundational engineering patterns.
Achieve a high degree of self-service and ease-of-use for application development teams while maintaining robust enterprise governance and control frameworks.