Consultant Specialist

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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Consultant Specialist.

Business: Group Functions Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Provide technical consultation to development team members with guidance of department principles. Lead teams or projects of high complexity. Initiates and conducts feasibility studies of new and modified business requirement.
• Provide technical analysis and solutions to business issues, provides consultation, researches and implements technical alternatives, and maintains awareness of business technology strategies.
• Be responsible in user requirement gathering, detailed requirement documentation by working closely with the project stakeholders including IT and business users. Ensure the business need can be translated into executable artefacts for development team.
• Work closely with stakeholders, architects, and a variety of end users to ensure technical compatibility and user satisfaction.
• Work with development team to clarify the user requirements, conduct system testing, prepare test plan and test cases.
• Build and maintain secure, scalable and resilient infrastructure and services on Google Cloud.
• Develop and maintain continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines to enable reliable, repeatable application releases.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management and routine operational tasks using infrastructure as code.
• Implement monitoring, logging and alerting to detect service issues and improve visibility into service health and performance.
• Define and track service reliability targets, working with development teams to improve availability, performance and capacity.
• Respond to production incidents, coordinate service recovery and conduct root cause analysis to prevent recurrence.
• Collaborate with development, security and support teams to embed reliability and security practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
• Maintain operational documentation, support procedures and disaster recovery plans, and participate in recovery testing and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• University Degree (or above) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrable experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering or production engineering, supporting secure and resilient services.
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms, preferably Google Cloud, including infrastructure provisioning, identity and access management, networking and monitoring.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash or another scripting language to automate operational tasks and develop reliable tooling.
• Practical experience building and maintaining continuous integration and continuous delivery pipelines, with security checks integrated into the delivery process.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, container technologies such as Docker, and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of monitoring, logging and alerting, with the ability to define service reliability targets and troubleshoot distributed systems.
• Sound knowledge of Linux, networking and cloud security, alongside practical experience in incident response, root cause analysis and disaster recovery.
• Strong written and spoken English communication skills, with the ability to collaborate across teams and explain technical issues clearly to different audiences.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

HSBC is an equal opportunity employer 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. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified persons irrespective of, but not limited to, their gender or genetic information, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, social status, medical care leave requirements, political affiliation, people with disabilities, color, national origin, veteran status, etc., We consider all applications based on merit and suitability to the role.

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