Cloud Infrastructure Architect

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. 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, 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.

The anticipated salary range for this role is between $166,000.00 and $203,000.00. 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**

The Cloud Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the design, support, and implementation of complex Cloud solutions with a focus on the Amazon AWS Cloud provider. Other duties include application architecture review, platform automation, management, and infrastructure as code development within an enterprise environment. An ideal candidate will have background experience related to Cloud architecture, engineering and automation against Amazon AWS.

**Role Objectives**

This role is responsible for the creation of automated solutions and support regarding SMBC Americas Cloud platforms, notably Amazon AWS, across all SMBC/Group Company entities within the Americas Division. This role requires experience in Amazon AWS architecture and engineering with a heavy focus implementation.

Design and implement scalable, secure, and highly available AWS Cloud architectures for enterprise applications.

Assist with the creation of reference architecture with a strong emphasis on the secure implementation and end user consumption.

Collaborate with development, operations, and security teams to integrate cloud solutions into existing infrastructure.

Define cloud architecture best practices and ensure governance, compliance, and performance standards are met within a highly regulated environment.

Migrate on-premise applications to AWS, including rehosting, replatforming, and refactoring.

Design, creation, and deployment of Infrastructure as Code solutions for IaaS, SaaS, PaaS offerings within the SMBC Cloud environments with a heavy emphasis on Amazon AWS.

Conduct architectural reviews, proof-of-concepts, and cost-optimization assessments.

Ensure disaster recovery and business continuity planning are embedded in architecture designs.

Provide technical leadership and guidance to cross-functional teams throughout the project lifecycle.

Maintain and update cloud documentation, diagrams, and design specifications.

Stay current with AWS services, industry trends, and emerging technologies.

Ensure handover of new/updated systems/documentation to team providing 24x7x365 support.

**Qualifications and Skills**

Highly proficient in Cloud services related to Amazon AWS. Notably, IaaS, PaaS and SaaS services.

Proven expertise in AWS services like EC2, S3, Lambda, RDS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, and Route 53.

Fundamental understanding of public vs private networking in the Cloud.

Strong scripting experience, especially with the goal of automation in either Python or Powershell.

Hands-on experience with IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, CDK)..

Experience with monitoring and log aggregation tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Splunk, ELK, etc.

Basic knowledge of foundational IT tooling across a wealth of domains to facilitate understanding of automation creation.

Strong technical ability for diagnosis, triage, troubleshooting and problem analysis with the ability to communicate results to business stakeholders, IT support teams to resolve issues both quickly and effectively.

Experience integrating cloud solutions with enterprise identity providers (e.g., Active Directory, Okta, SSO).

Strong documentation and presentation skills; ability to create architecture diagrams using tools like Lucidchart, Draw.io, or Visio.

Sound knowledge on Git merging and branching strategies.

Ability to execute proof of concepts and deploy complex solutions.

Understanding of typical SDLC processes and workflow.

Basic understanding of Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence) is a plus.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to articulate requirements, concepts and ideas to business and technology partners.

**Additional Requirements**

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. Hybrid work may not be permitted for certain roles, including, for example, certain FINRA-registered roles for which in-office attendance for the entire workweek is required.

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 ....