Storage Automation Engineer

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $160,000 and $190,000/year (see below footnote for additional compensation and benefits information).

Nomura is a financial services group with an integrated global network. By connecting markets East & West, we service the needs of individuals, institutions, corporates and governments through our four business divisions:
Wealth Management, Investment Management, Wholesale (Global Markets and Investment Banking) and Banking.

As the agency-model execution services arm of the Nomura Group, Instinet Incorporated subsidiaries provide brokerage services to clients in over 65 markets around the world. Through its advanced suite of electronic trading strategies, experienced high-touch trading group, top-ranked Commission Management services, award-winning desktop trading platform, and unparalleled access to insightful analytics, content and unique liquidity, Instinet helps institutions lower overall trading costs and ultimately improve investment performance.

In the US, Instinet also offers a boutique-model Equity Research offering to assist their clients in the pursuit of alpha generation in a changing landscape. Over the course of its 50+ year history, Instinet has introduced a range of now industry-standard trading technologies and has been an innovator at the forefront of the market's evolution. For more information, please visit

The Senior Storage & Backup Engineer will be responsible for managing the global data protection and archiving software and hardware. This will include ensuring operations run consistently and that data is backed up or archived within agreed service level agreements. As the senior data protection engineer, be responsible for platform upgrades and service improvements. Provide technical guidance to other members of the team or peers.

• Ensure alignment for policy, process, procedures, software configuration and hardware types across all 3 regions.
• Maintain standard documentation and ensure adherence to the global standard is followed.
• Maintain 100% service uptime.
• Stay abreast of industry trends and business needs.
• Build productive working relationships with peer teams and managers to become recognized Storage Automation SME.
• Develop multi-year Technology Roadmaps and deliver against for approved projects.
• Automate repetitive tasks, such as BAU provisioning and de-provisioning.

• The candidate will be expected to have significant recent experience of administrating or building one or more traditional storage solutions and one or more software-defined storage solutions.
• The candidate is preferred to have experience of enterprise backup solutions.
• The candidate is expected to be proficient in developing automated solution designs to a professional standard, leveraging Service Now API’s.
• The candidate must have strong knowledge of Hitachi and Everpure block, file and object storage solutions.
• The candidate must have experience of providing storage across FC SAN, iSCSI and Ethernet.
• The candidate should have strong OS and networking knowledge.
• Familiar with LTO, S3 object storage, shared file systems and AWS & Azure O365 offerings.
• Familiar with scripting, automation tooling, such as Python, Ansible and API’s.
• Experience of using and integrating with Service Now and Jira for no touch provisioning.
• Able to articulate cyber threats to the storage & backup service and what is needed to provide a defense of last resort.
• Able to articulate cyber threats to the business and how the Backup Service can be used for mass recovery at speed.
• Demonstrate how external and internal audits have been engaged in the past and what strategies were used to show that the backup service is appropriately managed.

• 10+ years’ experience of block and file storage
• 8+ years’ experience of backup solutions.
• Experience administrating solutions within a regulated environment, i.e. Financial Services.
• 3+ years’ experience of S3 object storage solutions.
• Red…