Terraform Engineer - Contractor

Nomura Holdings, inc.•Philadelphia, PA

9d•$600 - $700•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Terraform Engineer at Nomura, you will take part in developing a Terraform platform that delivers value for our business and engineering teams. In this role, you will be a subject matter expert in our Terraform platform and contribute to its features, drive operational excellence and make the platform easier for the broader engineering community to consume. Your work will center around AWS 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 Terraform and collaborate with other Platform Engineering teams to evolve the platforms and foundational engineering patterns and achieve enterprise-level synergies.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar discipline, or equivalent work experience.
5+ years of professional experience in Cloud, DevOps, SRE, Platform, or similar roles developing Terraform platforms at scale.
Cloud Infrastructure in AWS (core services, networking, IAM, etc.)
Infrastructure as Code (IaC), particularly using Terraform
CICD, particularly using Gitlab and Terraform Enterprise
Observability, particularly using LTGM (Grafana, Loki, Mimir/Prometheus, Tempo).
Policy enforcement, particularly using HashiCorp Sentinel
Proficiency in Bash, 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.