Unix Global Practice Head/Delivery Head

Job description

Job description

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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 organisations 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 realise their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Delivery Head

·  Provide overall leadership, oversight etc to build and run the UNIX practice capability within WPB IT; across all dimensions, including people, process and tools. Proactive in identifying and clearing roadblocks for the virtual team
·  Develop talent in the virtual team and create opportunities
·  Manage a global virtual team of circa 15 – 30 infra UNIX FTE. Accountable to ensure best practice, standards, recommended tools and technologies are used within WPB IT.
·  Drive the evolution and adoption of Hashicorp Vault across WPB and HSBC
·  Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the virtual team by automating manual task. Devolve responsibility where automation is not possible to the POD teams. Champion the use of Agile and DevOps principles/methodologies.Identify key blockers and play a lead role in the removal of blockers and hence facilitate the implemenation of tactical and strategic solutions accordingly
·  Accountable for CTO UNIX relationship within WPB. Collaborate with peers in IT and HTS Partners, to ensure the delivery of goals for WPB  with respect to the infrastructure aspects. Communicate and implement the WPB & CTO strategy to explain the benefits accordingly.
·  Act as escalation proint for all UNIX issues teams are unable to resolve themselves.
·  Face off/Influence CTO/Cyber teams to adapt/evolve to meet WPB requirements and vice versa
·  Governance over compliance to Security Standards; Approval of membership to privileged access groups (GSDE, Build, HPSA and PAR).
·  Governance of OAT and quality controls against standard baselines before go-live.
·  Governance over critical patching and production of MI.
·  Be able to solution design and make judgement calls about adoption of tech debt
·  Apply experience to identify most important parts of a problem
·  Governance over technical interviews, assessments and certification for cross-training into Practice functional roles.
·  Leverages past experience and uses strong communication skills to collaborate effectively with all stakeholders including customers, senior management and other business leaders

Requirements

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

·  Must have substantial experience of UNIX including expert level knowledge of the RedHat 6/7/8
·  Expert level knowledge of Hashicorp Vault
·  Excellent programming skills – ideally Bash and Python
·  Expert level knowledge in all aspects of Systems Performance
·  Expert level knowledge of Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server and Veritas Netbackup Client
·  Good practical knowledge of Networks and network technologies
·  Good understanding of the Linux kernel
·  Experience of DevOps deployment and monitoring tooling such as Ansible, Grafana etc
·  Experience as a hardware engineer responsible for the build of new servers and diagnosis of hardware faults
·  Practical knowledge of database technologies e.g. Oracle RAC, Dataguard
·  Provide Architecture design and support for development projects from a UNIX perspective
·  Good practical knowledge of SAN & NAS technologies
·  Good knowledge of RAID Levels such as RAID-0, RAID-1, RAID-1+0, RAID-5.
·  Proven experience in managing and building relationship with developers, management and infra SME’s

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India