Tralee in Co Kerry is to get 100 new jobs over the next five years, with JRI America announcing that it is to expand its technology centre, which already employs 100 people.

JRI America is a subsidiary of Japanese IT financial services company Japan Research Institute, the specialist IT research branch of Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Japan’s second largest bank.

The technology centre in Tralee supports the bank’s operations in both the Americas and EMEA, embracing software development, quality assurance, network support, security, infrastructure engineering and support, and helpdesk services.

The additional capacity in Tralee will create a security operations centre covering security operations, security event/incident monitoring, threat vulnerability analysis and management, and network/systems security.

The security centre will work in tandem with the group’s existing SOC in Japan to monitor, assess, mitigate and investigate cybersecurity threats and incidents across the group’s global operations.

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JRI America president Michael O’Dea said: “The commencement of operations in our Security Operations Centre in Tralee is a welcome addition, providing additional roles necessary to our cybersecurity capability.”

IDA Ireland chief executive Martin Shanahan said the expansion supports the agency's Cyber Ireland Cluster initiative with which JRI Tralee is already engaged.

SMFG operates four other entities in Ireland, including SMBC Aviation Capital, the world’s fourth largest operating lessor in the aircraft financing industry, which has c.160 staff in Dublin.