Requirements

Expected technologies

GCP

Docker

Phyton

Kubernetes

Google Cloud

Terraform

Ansible

Our requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. (Or equivalent work experience).
• Proven mastery of core technologies associated with Cloud infrastructure operations and automation. Expert level knowledge of multiple cloud platforms with a specific focus on Google Cloud.
• Deep and broad understanding of network, storage, and security principles. Experience of designing, implementing and operating at global, enterprise scale.
• Significant, practical experience of major incident response and troubleshooting methodologies. Demonstrable experience of leading a team to successful remediation of high pressure, materially impacting incidents.
• Practical, enterprise experience with implementing containerization and orchestration technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Outstanding influencing and communication skills, with experience of communicating complex subject matter to senior executives.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Python and Bash). Deep experience in infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
• A vast array of expert- level industry certifications across a broad range of technical subjects.

Your responsibilities

• Provide strategic direction to the GCP Engineering team across the range of key technologies and infrastructure components used, leveraging deep enterprise experience and current or emerging industry best practices.
• Directly lead a small engineering pod to set the standards and deliver upon core practices such as infrastructure reliability, capacity planning, security, automation, incident management, performance optimisation, monitoring and alerting.
• Collaborate closely and maintain strong relationships with a broad range of senior stakeholders across many functions, including Architecture, Security and Compliance, Cyber Security and other Cloud platform teams.
• Proactive identification and remediation of risks and issues before they present a significant impact to the platform and its customers. Define the epics, stories or tasks required and be responsible for managing and prioritising the workload of a small team.
• Be a champion for safe change. Contribute to process improvements and help to promote a culture of safety and accountability through change-related ceremonies and individual opportunities for feedback.
• As a senior technical leader on the team, use experience to provide positive and regular inputs to more strategic matters. This would include but not be limited to culture, job design, resourcing, operating models and cross- cloud consistency.
• Partner engagement is a regular requirement. Influencing enterprise partners to drive changes to their roadmaps that favour HSBC priorities, strongly influence relevant product developments and shared initiatives to achieve stronger business outcomes.
• Developing oneself and others. Maintain and make progress against an ambitious personal development plan while seizing opportunities for day-to-day and more strategic technical development of the wider GCP team and its customers. Be a voice in the industry and represent HSBC at a senior, technical level at appropriate conferences, workshops and seminars.