HSBC Group

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If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out, join HSBC and fulfil your potential. Whether you want a career that could take you to the top, or simply take you in an exciting new direction, HSBC offers opportunities, support and rewards that will take you further.

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions. 

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist. 

In this role, you will: 

• Build, deploy and manage the HSBC GCP foundation platform application primarily using Google Cloud products like BigQuery, GKE, Cloud Build, Cloud Run etc. and Python as programming language.
• Engineer solutions on GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods (e.g. Terraform)
• Integrate, configure, deploy, and manage centrally provided common cloud services covering IAM, networking, logging, Operating systems, Containers etc.
• Manage Software Defined Networking in GCP
• Consume centrally agreed base HSBC Hardened OS (Linux and Windows).
• Ensure compliance with centrally defined Cloud Security Standards.
• Ensure compliancy with Operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency).
• Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities.
• Engineering activities to implement patches provided centrally.
• Support non-functional testing.
• Update support and operational documentation as required.
• Fault find and support Applications teams.
• Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards.
• Provide impact assessments where requested for changes proposed on HSBC GCP core platform.
• On a rotational on call basis provide out of business hours support as part of our 24 x 7 coverage.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:      

• Experience in building managing a range of services in Google Cloud Platform. Expertise in products like GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Build or Cloud Run will be considered as a plus.
• External level understanding of Cloud Security and associated Google Cloud specific best practices.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and SRE principles and Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques. Hands-on experience in Terraform.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD and related tools e.g. Jenkins, Flux CD, Helm.
• Excellent skills in at least one of following programming languages: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Groovy, Scala.
• Security and Compliance, e.g. IAM and cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools.
• Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Application teams, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams.
• Good leadership and teamwork skills - Works collaboratively in an agile environment with DevOps application ‘pods’ to provide GCP specific capability/skills required to deliver the service.
• Operational effectiveness - delivers solutions that align to approved design patterns and security standards.
• Risk management effectiveness.
• Experienced in full automation and configuration management.
• A track record of constantly looking for ways to do things better and an excellent understanding of the mechanism necessary to successfully implement change.
• Set and achieved challenging short, medium and long term goals which exceeded the standards in their field.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills; an ability to communicate with impact, ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way to wide and varied audiences.
• Built effective networks across business areas, developing relationships based on mutual trust and encouraging others to do the same.
• A successful track record of delivering complex projects and/or programmes, utilising appropriate techniques and tools to ensure and measure success.
• A comprehensive understanding of risk management and proven experience of ensuring own/others' compliance with relevant regulatory processes.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India