Responsibilities will include:
- Build and manage the HSBC GCP foundation platform to enable application deployments
- Engineer solutions on GCP foundation platform using Infrastructure As Code methods (e.g. Terraform)
- Integrate, configure, deploy and manage centrally provided common cloud services (e.g. IAM, networking, logging, Operating systems, Containers.)
- Manage SDN in GCP
- Consume centrally agreed base HSBC Hardened OS (Linux and Windows)
- Ensure compliance with centrally defined Security
- 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.
Qualifications and experience
The ideal candidate for this role will have the below experience and qualifications:
- Experience of building a range of Services in a Cloud Service provider (ideally GCP)
- Expert understanding of DevOps principles and Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques
- Strong understanding of CI/CD and available tools
- Experience configuring SDN within a CSP (VPCs, XPN etc.)
- Valuable understanding of physical networks (SubNets, Natting, Routing)
- Security and Compliance, e.g. IAM (ADFS, OAuth) 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
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