DevOps Engineer
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Job Summary
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.
The DevSecOps Engineer is responsible for designing implementing and maintaining secure scalable DevSecOps pipelines aligned with SMBCs Secure Systems and Software Development Lifecycle. This role plays a key part in advancing automation reducing vulnerabilities and enforcing controls across CI/CD pipelines to enable secure efficient software delivery.
The position ensures that security compliance and quality controls are embedded throughout the full lifecyclefrom development through deploymentin line with regulatory expectations (e.g. FFIEC NIST SSDF) and internal governance standards. The ideal candidate combines a strong engineering mindset with a passion for continuous improvement hands-on experience with modern DevOps toolchains and a deep understanding of secure SDLC practices.
- Embed automation across development testing and deployment processes ensuring quality gates security checks and compliance requirements are consistently enforced from build through production.
- Design build and optimise end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with a focus on scalability and reusable workflows.
- Guide project teams on integrating automated testing into the SDLC.
- Partner with testing teams to design and implement robust automated test frameworks (unit integration API and end-to-end).
- Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline and automation issues to improve reliability and reduce downtime.
- Collaborate with platform and operations teams to streamline deployments and strengthen gating controls.
- Monitor pipeline performance infrastructure health and delivery metrics using tools such as Datadog Splunk or Prometheus.
- Integrate and maintain tools supporting code quality security scanning artifact management and test automation.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI capabilities within CI/CD processes to enhance SDLC efficiency and effectiveness.
- Integrate DevSecOps toolchains with enterprise platforms (e.g. ITSM change management and service management systems).
- Support application onboarding into standardised DevSecOps pipelines.
- Contribute to tool rationalisation and the adoption of enterprise-approved tooling.
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science or a related field.
- 7 years of experience in automation engineering software development or DevSecOps roles.
- Experience with CI/CD platforms (e.g. GitHub Actions Jenkins Azure DevOps) source control systems (GitHub Enterprise preferred) and build/artifact management tools.
- Experience embedding policy and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform ARM templates Ansible).
- Experience with GitOps practices containerisation and orchestration technologies.
- Experience delivering DevSecOps capabilities within large-scale enterprise transformation programmes.
- Experience implementing security controls within pipelines (e.g. SAST SCA DAST IaC scanning).
- Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python JavaScript or Bash.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS Azure or GCP).
- Excellent problem-solving debugging communication and collaboration skills.
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
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