DevOps / ML Ops Engineer, AVP

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Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

Overview :

The DevOps / ML Ops Engineer will play a critical role in automating, orchestrating, and optimizing the build, test, and deployment of data and machine learning services within a highly regulated financial environment. This position is responsible for ensuring secure, compliant, and resilient operations, with a strong focus on regulatory adherence, risk management, and audit readiness. The ideal candidate will drive innovation while maintaining strict controls and governance required by the financial services industry.

Key Responsibilities :

Automation & Orchestration

Design, implement, and manage CI / CD pipelines with integrated segregation of duties and approval workflows.

Leverage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and artifact management systems to enable consistent, repeatable deployments.

Implement blue-green and canary deployment strategies, including automated rollback mechanisms to minimize risk and downtime.

Ensure all automation adheres to financial industry compliance and security standards.

Observability & Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Develop robust monitoring solutions for logs, metrics, and distributed traces, ensuring real-time visibility and rapid incident detection.

Establish and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets tailored for financial applications.

Create and maintain incident response playbooks that comply with regulatory requirements for incident management and reporting.

Support post-incident reviews and root cause analyses in alignment with audit and compliance standards.

Release Governance & Compliance

Manage comprehensive evidence capture, approval tracking, and change controls throughout promotion flows.

Integrate with Change Advisory Board (CAB) processes, maintaining detailed audit trails and regulatory documentation.

Ensure releases meet all internal and external regulatory compliance requirements, including SOX, SOC, and GDPR where applicable.

Facilitate regular audits and ensure readiness for regulatory examinations with no major findings.

Qualifications : Required

4+ years of experience in DevOps or SRE roles, ideally within financial services or other regulated industries.

Expertise in scripting languages, Infrastructure as Code, and cloud / platform automation tools.

Strong understanding of security best practices and regulatory controls.

Preferred

Proven experience implementing CI / CD pipelines with segregation of duties and CAB integration.

Demonstrated ability to produce and manage audit evidence for regulatory compliance.

Hands-on experience supporting regulated incident management and rollback processes.

Knowledge of financial data privacy, security standards, and risk management frameworks.

Success Metrics

Consistent achievement of pipeline reliability and lead time targets for changes, as defined by financial industry standards.

High SLO attainment, reduced Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and strong risk mitigation practices.

Successful completion of internal and external audits, with no major findings or compliance issues.

Other Qualifications :

As per MUFG’s work policy for all personnel, candidates must work onsite for 4 days and 1 day remotely out of either Jersey City, NJ, Tampa, FL or Tempe, AZ office.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $124K - $145K depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and / or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.