DevSecOps 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 Rail Services LLC, Manufacturers Bank, JRI America, Inc., SMBC Leasing and Finance, Inc., Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A., and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co., Ltd.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $97,000.00 and $154,000.00. The specific salary offered to an applicant will be based on their individual qualifications, experiences, and an analysis of the current compensation paid in their geography and the market for similar roles at the time of hire. The role may also be eligible for an annual discretionary incentive award. In addition to cash compensation, SMBC offers a competitive portfolio of benefits to its employees.

Role Description

This role is part of a team responsible for administering security projects designed to safeguard Capital Market’s information systems. This position requires participation in technical research and development of the on prem and cloud solutions to enable continuous innovation for Cyber Security and Information Risk department. The DevSecOps (Development, Security, and Operations) Engineer Associate 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. Reports to Head of Cyber Security of Capital Markets with reporting lines into the regional CISO of Americas Division as well Capital Markets’ COO. 

The DevSecOps Engineer will be responsible for ensuring that Information Security systems and cloud services are configured, deployed, and maintained in accordance with SMBC’s polices and standards. Engineer will work closely with DevOps team to ensure critical components of the CI/CD pipeline are configured according to existing policies and procedures and security is baked into the pipeline. This position requires participation in technical research and development to enable continuing innovation for Cyber Security and Information Risk management.

Role Objectives

• Focuses 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

Qualifications and Skills

• 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.
• Familiarly with container orchestration technologies such as Kubernetes, Openshift, EKS, AKS
• Experience with container image scanning and vulnerability management
• AWS or Azure Certifications

Additional Requirements

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.

We are 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. SMBC provides reasonable accommodations for employees and applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please let us know at accommodations@smbcgroup.com.