Consultant Specialist

Job descriptionSome careers shine brighter than others If youre 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 Consultant Specialist In this role you will be Part of a small team of Engineers that supports multiple GCP development projects Collaborate with GCP delivery teams to challenge and refine solution designs ensuring at all times that DevOps best practice is followed Collaborate with central GCP teams architecture security engineering networks to design new implementation patterns and to apply them across the various GCP projects Design develop implement applications such as web based applications REST APIs for interactions with data in multiple cloud projects Design and implement CICD pipelines for resources to be deployed to Cloud platforms RequirementsTo be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements Key or pivotal role in delivery of a large-scale IT project requirements design development testing data infrastructure preferably delivered following an Agile approach Demonstrable experience in understanding business requirements and translating these requirements into a solid robust technical design that can withstand scrutiny by various teams involved in governance processes around live deployments IT Security Cyber Security etc Demonstrated an ability to see beyond the defined business requirements and designing solutions that are readily maintainable easy to extend and that allow for future requirements to be easily implemented minimising technical debt where possible A large cloud implementation migration project preferably GCP all the way through to go-live Strong working knowledge of cloud architecture solutions that maximise the use of PaaS offerings Understand the concept of immutable infrastructure what it means what design considerations are key why it is important and ideally some experience on at least one project Understand infrastructure-as-code and configuration-as-code and ability to differentiate toolsets platforms used to implement each one Experience of using modern frontend development languages frameworks and libraries to build user faced applications Experience of using programming languages and frameworks to build REST APIs and Streaming APIs Experience in data security and work closely with data security measures and protocols such as user access control and token management to protect both the organization from threats and exploits Experience managing cloud infrastructure environments admin users IAM service accounts Experience using Terraform designing re-usable code writing custom Terraform modules Experience writing Ansible playbooks developing custom Ansible roles Experience of designing and implement CI CD pipeline Experience of working in a test-driven development TDD approach Have knowledge of modern web application authentication and authorisation approaches including JWT OAuth and OpenID Connect Knowledge of tracking record of delivery Basic knowledge or familiar with Banking and or Financial Crime Risk experience optional TECHNICAL SKILLS Automation toolset Terraform Ansible Ansible Tower CI CD Engines - Bamboo Jenkins 2 Pipeline as Code DevOps principles CI CD designing implementing infrastructure configuration-as-code application lifecycle management risk mitigation management Designing writing robust automated tests related frontend backend and infrastructure such as Jest Junit Cucumber Rest-assured Selenium Terratest etc Knowledge of cloud architecture services preferably GCP Security IAM roles service accounts entitlements Java Spring Boot Maven for API development ReactJS JavaScript TypeScript Webpack Babel and other tools related to user interface application development Bash shell scripting and Python development Development tools and IDEs such as Git VS code Intellij Postman etc Artifact repositories such as NPM PyPI Nexus etc Knowledge of Docker for containerisation and encapsulation Atlassian toolset Bamboo Bitbucket JIRA Confluence Network configuration VPC VPN GCP Interconnect Good communication skills verbal written Ability to explain complex ideas Ability to work as part of a team familiarity with agile methodology Ability to work in a team that is located across multiple countries and regions Willingness to adapt and learn new things Takes ownership of tasks Youll achieve more when you join HSBC www hsbc com careersHSBC is committed to building a culture where all employees are valued respected and opinions count We take pride in providing a workplace that fosters continuous professional development flexible working and opportunities to grow within an inclusive and diverse environment Personal data held by the Bank relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement which is available on our website Issued by HSBC Software Development India