GCP DevOps Engineer

Job description

GCP DevOps Engineer

Big Bank Funding. FinTech Thinking.

HSBC operates a ‘Cloud First' strategy - we strongly believe that the future of our infrastructure is on the Cloud, both Public and Private to accelerate our business capabilities.

The Cloud DevOps Engineer will work within an agile team of Engineers and Operations personnel building highly resilient, scalable and performant GCP infrastructure in an automated and efficient manner. DevOps Engineers will work alongside the Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams. The engineers will be required to use their initiative to innovate to achieve maximum performance and be prepared to investigate and use new products/services offered by GCP.

What you will be doing;

· 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

Desired profile

Qualifications :

What you will bring to the role;

To be successful in this role you should have proven experience of the following;

·  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 (VPC's, XPN etc.)
·  Good 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
·  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
·  Excellent skills in at least one of following: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Groovy, Scala
·  Experienced in full automation and configuration management

Essential Skills
·  Demonstrable Cloud service provider experience (ideally GCP) - infrastructure build and configurations of a variety of services including Compute, Storage, SDN (VPC and XPN)
·  Demonstrable experience of Linux administration and scripting preferably Red Hat
·  Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools
·  Experience working within an Agile environment
·  Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Go, Groovy, Scala
·  Server administration (either Linux or Windows)
·  Automation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Ansible etc.)
·  Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools

Desirable Skills
·  GCP Certifications - ideally professional
·  Linux Certification
·  Windows Server Certification

This role is based in London.

Come Power a Business that Defines How to Power the World

As a business operating in markets all around the world, we believe diversity brings benefits for our customers, our business and our people. This is why HSBC UK is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation.

We want everyone to be able to fulfil their potential which is why we provide a range of flexible working arrangements and family friendly policies.

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

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Recruitment Helpdesk:
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