DevOps Automation Engineer
DevOps Automation Engineer
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Job Description
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 80000 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. SMFGs 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 Ireland 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 organizations extensive global network. The Groups operating companies in the Americas include Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (SMBC) SMBC Nikko Securities America Inc. SMBC Capital Markets Inc. SMBC MANUBANK JRI America Inc. SMBC Leasing and Finance Inc. Banco Sumitomo Mitsui Brasileiro S.A. and Sumitomo Mitsui Finance and Leasing Co. Ltd.
- This is a hybrid role requiring the successful candidate to attend our Tralee office
Overview
SMBC are seeking an experienced DevOps Automation Engineer to drive automation across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This role is pivotal in driving the reliability scalability and security of our CI/CD processes by embedding automation into development testing and deployment workflows. The ideal candidate brings a strong engineering mindset a passion for continuous improvement and hands-on experience with modern DevOps toolchains coupled with a deep understanding of the SDLC.
This role will report to the Executive Director of Enterprise Architecture.
Responsibilities
- Embed automation into development testing and deployment activities ensuring quality gates security checks and compliance requirements are met from build to production.
- Design build and optimise end to end CI/CD pipelines with a focus on reusable workflows.
- Advise project teams on integrating test automation into the SDLC.
- Collaborate with testing teams to design and build automated test frameworks (unit integration API end-to-end)
- Troubleshoot and resolve automation issues to reduce downtime and improve reliability.
- Collaborate with operations and platform teams to streamline deployments and gating controls.
- Monitor pipeline performance infrastructure health and delivery metrics using tools such as Datadog Splunk or Prometheus.
- Integrate and maintain tools for code quality security scanning artifact management test automation.
- Facilitate training and mentoring on automation tools processes and best practices.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field.
- 5 years experience in automation engineering software development and DevOps.
- Experience integrating policy and compliance automation into delivery pipelines.
- Experience with test automation tools such as Playwright Selenium.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform ARM templates Ansible).
- Experience with GitOps containers and orchestration tools.
- Proficient with scripting languages such as Python JavaScript or Bash.
- Solid understanding of DevSecOps tools and Application Security best practices.
- Excellent debugging and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- ServiceNow Devops Change Velocity knowledge is a plus.
- Microsoft Power Platform knowledge is a plus.
SMBCs 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.
SMBC provides reasonable accommodations during candidacy for applicants with disabilities consistent with applicable federal state and local law. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application process please let us know at
Employment Type
Full Time
