Storage Automation Engineer

Nomura Holdings, inc.•New York, NY

2d•$160,000 - $190,000•Onsite

About The Position

Nomura is a global financial services group with an integrated network. As the agency-model execution services arm of the Nomura Group, Instinet Incorporated subsidiaries provide brokerage services to clients in over 65 markets around the world. Instinet offers advanced electronic trading strategies, a high-touch trading group, Commission Management services, an award-winning desktop trading platform, and access to liquidity, analytics, and content to help institutions lower trading costs and improve investment performance. In the US, Instinet also offers Equity Research. Instinet has a 50+ year history of innovation in trading technologies.

Requirements

Significant recent experience of administrating or building one or more traditional storage solutions and one or more software-defined storage solutions.
Proficient in developing automated solution designs to a professional standard, leveraging ServiceNow API’s.
Strong knowledge of Hitachi and Everpure block, file and object storage solutions.
Experience of providing storage across FC SAN, iSCSI and Ethernet.
Strong OS and networking knowledge.
Familiar with LTO, S3 object storage, shared filesystems and AWS & Azure O365 offerings.
Familiar with scripting, automation tooling, such as Python, Ansible and API’s.
Experience of using and integrating with ServiceNow and Jira for no touch provisioning.
Able to articulate cyber threats to the storage & backup service and what is needed to provide a defense of last resort.
Able to articulate cyber threats to the business and how the Backup Service can be used for mass recovery at speed.
Demonstrate how external and internal audits have been engaged in the past and what strategies were used to show that the backup service is appropriately managed.

Nice To Haves

Experience of enterprise backup solutions.

Responsibilities

Manage the global data protection and archiving software and hardware.
Ensure operations run consistently and that data is backed up or archived within agreed service level agreements.
Perform platform upgrades and service improvements.
Provide technical guidance to other members of the team or peers.
Ensure alignment for policy, process, procedures, software configuration and hardware types across all 3 regions.
Maintain standard documentation and ensure adherence to the global standard is followed.
Maintain 100% service uptime.
Stay abreast of industry trends and business needs.
Build productive working relationships with peer teams and managers to become recognized Storage Automation SME.
Develop multi-year Technology Roadmaps and deliver against for approved projects.
Automate repetitive tasks, such as BAU provisioning and de-provisioning.