DevOps 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, 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 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 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.

Role Description

The DevSecOps Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable DevSecOps pipelines aligned with SMBC’s 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 lifecycle—from development through deployment—in 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s 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.

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.

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 accommodations@smbcgroup.com.