Job description
Some careers shine brighter than others.
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 organizations 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 realize their ambitions.
We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist
Key Responsibilities:
- Follow pre-defined scope, design, and plans to assist in implementing and supporting new technology initiatives.
- Support and maintain the existing SQL Server automation.
- Deliver robust solutions and provide excellent levels of service to the business and IT support needs.
- Design and code infrastructure automation for SQL Server customers.
- Apply DevOps principles to automate interfaces to SQL Server.
- Design and code reusable APIs to build, manage and provide self-service functions.
- Designing and testing automation, eliminating defects and errors with product development.
- Designing and integrating observability for all new and existing products including creating and maintaining solution documentation.
- Problem solving issues that arise in day to day running of automated processes and providing timely responses and solutions as required.
Requirements
Qualifications – External
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science engineering or related field.
- Minimum 12 years of experience in IT
- Extensive operational experience of SQL Server including installation, maintenance and performance.
- Good knowledge of SQL Server architecture including availability groups, mirroring and clustering.
- Experience and knowledge of Windows, Powershell, T-SQL, JSON and YAML.
- Strong knowledge and experience of automation using Ansible and Puppet.
- Knowledge of Active Directory, Kerberos, encryption and virtualization i.e. VMware VMs, Docker and Kubernetes.
- API development experience with Python FASTAPI, associated tooling and architecture.
- End-to-end knowledge of build, package, automated testing, and deployment of CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience using with Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Confluence, Splunk.
- Knowledge of Tanium and experience of promotion of packages to live.
- Good understanding of secrets management via Hashivault, Jenkins credentials and Ansible Vault.
- Experience of DevOps and Agile operating principles.
- Ability to navigate security and risk expectations in a regulated banking environment.
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams/regions/cultures, sharing and building collective knowledge.
- Troubleshooting and bug fixing.
- Self-Starter and able to work with minimal supervision.
- Excellent documentation skills.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India