In this role, you will:

• Providing technological guidance and leadership to the Scrum team members and encouraging team members to continue learning, to ensure organic growth of the team.  

• Ensuring technical leadership is present within the team and that all deployment activities follows agreed standards and processes.  

• Defining, implementing, and overseeing team processes in line with the wider DevOps Engineering team and HSBC procedures.  

• Ensuring changes delivered by the team are compliant with HSBC Controls.  

• Ensuring the team is compliant with HSBC policies both for personnel and services/applications managed by the team.  

• Preparing the teams in DevOps Engineering for upcoming changes in the ways of working, available tooling and internal controls in use at the bank.  

• Ensuring tasks and sprint planning is accurate and achievable.  

• Acting as a Technical SME for the platforms hosting the Cybersecurity applications.  

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

• 7+ years of experience in a DevOps role within an agile delivery environment.  

• Experience with OOP practices and familiarity with design patterns and data structures. 

• Experience designing and building highly scalable and resilient platforms and applications, including multisite resilience, load balancing, automatic failover, active-active implementations of application servers and database and storage backends.  

• Experience working directly with every layer of the application service stack, from infrastructure (network, storage, servers), through operating system and middleware software (RHEL, Windows Server, nginx, Apache httpd, Gunicorn, PostgreSQL and MSSQL database backends), to application software (developed in-house).  

• Experience working with third-party cloud computing platforms such as Ali Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Azure Cloud and Google Cloud with a focus on virtual computing, virtual networking and network services and managed container solutions.  

• Experience in working with BigData related environment like CDP (Cloudera Data Platform), HDP (Hadoop Data Platform), GCP (Google Cloud Platform) 

• Experience working with virtualization, infrastructure as code, configuration as code, automation, centralized logging and monitoring, software versioning and secrets management technologies, such as KVM, VMWare, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Application Dynamics, Splunk, GIT, Hashicorp Vault.  

• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.  

• Experience in an DevOps working team.  

• Excellent communication and mentoring skills.