DevSecOps Engineer

SMBC Group is a leading global financial institution with a rich history dating back 400 years. Headquartered in Tokyo, the group offers a diverse range of financial services, including banking, leasing, securities, credit cards, and consumer finance. With over 130 offices and 80,000 employees worldwide, SMBC Group is one of the three largest banking groups in Japan.

The group's shares are listed on the Tokyo, Nagoya, and New York stock exchanges, providing a strong foundation for its global operations. In the Americas, SMBC Group has a significant presence in the US, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Peru, offering a range of commercial and investment banking services to its corporate, institutional, and municipal clients.

We are seeking a highly skilled DevSecOps Engineer to join our team responsible for administering security projects designed to safeguard Capital Market's information systems. This role requires participation in technical research and development of on-prem and cloud solutions to enable continuous innovation for Cyber Security and Information Risk management.

The successful candidate will serve as a liaison between Development, Operations, and the Cybersecurity Risk teams, using a combination of programming knowledge, threat management, and communication skills to automate and integrate cybersecurity at every stage of the SDLC lifecycle.

• Ensure that Information Security systems and cloud services are configured, deployed, and maintained in accordance with SMBC's policies and standards.
• Work closely with DevOps teams to ensure critical components of the CI/CD pipeline are configured according to existing policies and procedures and security is baked into the pipeline.
• Participate in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation for Cyber Security and Information Risk management.
• Focus on hands-on engineering and architecting cybersecurity solutions using industry's best practices to protect the firm from various threat actors.
• Partner closely with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams to design and automate security controls as part of their CI/CD pipelines.
• Scan and track the remediation of vulnerabilities in code, containers, and infrastructure as code.
• Implement automation to perform security compliance testing into the development lifecycle.
• Develop and Report Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) within the SSDLC processes working closely with Americas Division's Security and Testing Team.
• Create and present updates to management on periodic basis w.r.t accomplishments, challenges and risks associated with respective projects.

• 4+ years of hands-on security engineer and operations experience securing cloud environments and developing automation workflows.
• Practical experience in implementing security checks within a Secure SDLC Pipeline.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Github Actions, Artifactory etc.
• Hands-on experience with Secrets Management, SCA, open-source tools.
• Scripting experience with one or more scripting languages: bash, python, perl, YAML - required.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform or Cloudformation - required.
• Familiarity with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Openshift, EKS, AKS.
• Experience with container image scanning and vulnerability management.
• AWS or Azure Certifications.

SMBC is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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