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Senior Principal Platform Engineer role in Mumbai focusing on PKI & Key Management modernization
Lead the next-gen identity cryptographic platform at Nomura, driving automation, cloud integration, and industry best practices.
Principal Platform Engineer – Identity Cryptographic Services
Corporate Title: Vice President
Division: CTO - Group Platform and Services Engineering
Department / Group: Group CIO
Location: Mumbai, India (Powai – Winchester)
Hiring Manager: Dominic Cobo
Job/Group Overview
Nomura is currently undergoing a substantial modernisation programme across its identity and access management platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Identity Engineering function leading the engineering of the next‑generation Public Key Infrastructure and Key Management platform solutions for the firm and driving Group technology standardization initiatives.
Responsibilities
Work with the product owner & other engineers to design, implement and scale new and existing systems in the Identity Cryptographic Services domain to support Certificate Lifecycle Management Certificate Authorities, Key Management Services, and Hardware Security Module Platforms.
Provide technical engineering leadership for Key Management and Public Key Infrastructure platforms.
Support the modification of Key Management and Public Key Infrastructure platforms to drive strategic road map through consolidation and build out of new capabilities.
Provide technical guidance and coaching to junior engineers within the team.
Contribute towards ongoing automation and continuous improvement of existing services, including working closely with operational colleagues to improve general platform operability & stability.
Maintain high quality documentation and designs.
Requirements (indicate mandatory and/or preferred)
Skills & Experience Mandatory:
- 7+ years of demonstrable experience with Key Management systems (e.g. Entrust Key Control / CSP, Thales Cipher Trust Manager),
- 7+ years of demonstrable experience with HSM platforms (e.g. Entrust nShield HSMs, Thales Luna HSMs)
- 7+ years of demonstrable experience with Internal and External Public Key Infrastructure
- Strong background in modern platform delivery toolchains, techniques and fundamentals to drive automation of deployment and configuration (e.g. Gitlab, Ansible, Terraform, Powershell, Bash, etc)
- Experience with hybrid cloud architectures (including AWS, Azure, GCP, etc).
- Experience working in agile environment (e.g. Scrum)
- Computer Science or similar degree
- Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, or vendor‑specific qualifications.
- Strong understanding of how Key management and PKI operate to enable data protection and identity capabilities.
Preferred:
- Experience with ServiceNow.
- Exposure to Atlassian products (JIRA, Confluence)
- Awareness of and familiarity with ITIL
- Familiarity with modern telemetry and observability platforms (Prometheus, Loki, Grafana or similar).
- Financial Services Industry experience.
Soft Skills Required
- Excellent English written and verbal communication skills
- Willingness to work in a fast‑paced environment
- Ability to work with minimal supervision and on multiple tasks simultaneously
- Strong Self‑motivation, enthusiasm and proven rapid learning capability
- Excellent self‑management and prioritization skills
- Exceptional interpersonal skills including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
- Business and analytical problem‑solving skills.
- Ability to understand business context and requirements and discuss technical details at different levels based on the audience
We are committed to providing equal opportunities throughout employment including in the recruitment, training and development of employees. We prohibit discrimination in the workplace whether on grounds of gender, marital or domestic partnership status, pregnancy, carer’s responsibilities, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, race, color, national or ethnic origins, religious belief, disability or age.
*Applying for this role does not amount to a job offer or create an obligation on Nomura to provide a job offer. The expression "Nomura" refers to Nomura Services India Private Limited together with its affiliates.
*The benefits are subject to change and will be in accordance with Company’s policies as may be applicable from time to time).