Senior DevOps Engineer / Associate Director, Software Engineering
Pune, MH, IN, 411006
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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 a Associate Director, Software Engineering
In this role, you will:
- Architect, implement, and continually optimize secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, etc).
- Design and operate cloud (GCP, Azure) and IKP based microservices infrastructure (GKE, Artifact/Container registries).
- Build robust automation in Python and Groovy (Jenkins shared libraries, custom CLI tools, API integrations).
- Containerize and operationalize services: vulnerability scanning, progressive rollout (blue/green, canary).
- Advance Kubernetes governance (RBAC, network policies, pod security, autoscaling, cost & quota strategies).
- Integrate AI/GenAI accelerators (e.g., intelligent test selection, pipeline log summarization, anomaly detection, knowledge bots).
- Own release orchestration: environment promotion, artifact integrity, rollback safety, change governance.
- Lead blameless postmortems; automate recurring remediation tasks.
- Mentor engineers; codify best practices into reusable templates, libraries, and runbooks.
- Curate and energize a GenAI Community of Practice (CoP) to scale responsible AI-driven operational gains.
To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:
- 12+ years progressive DevOps / Platform / SRE / Software Engineering experience.
- Strong, current GCP or IKP hands-on expertise (compute, networking, IAM, managed services).
- Expert-level Python (automation frameworks, APIs, tooling) and Groovy (advanced Jenkins pipeline DSL & shared libraries).
- Deep Jenkins mastery: Declarative & Scripted pipelines, matrix/parallel builds, dynamic agents, pipeline security.
- Proven microservices platform delivery (service discovery, config, resilience, API gateways).
- Production-grade Kubernetes (cluster design, multi-tenant controls, ingress, secrets, Helm).
- Strong automation mindset: infra-as-code, config-as-code, policy enforcement, testable modules.
- Security-first orientation: secrets management (Vault / GCP Secret Manager), vulnerability remediation.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills across technical and executive audiences.
- GCP (GKE, IAM, Logging/Monitoring), Jenkins, Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, Python, Groovy, Bash, Docker, Git (semantic versioning, branching strategies), AI/GenAI SDKs/APIs.
- Strong presentation skills, written and verbal communication; tailors depth to audience.
- Doer mindset: bias for action, rapid iterative improvement with quality control.
- Collaborative influencer across product, security, data, leadership.
- Outcome-focused: balances velocity, reliability, security, and cost.
- Ownership & accountability end-to-end.
- Growth mindset; continuous learning and experimentation.
The successful candidate will also meet the following requirements: (Good to have Requirements)
- GCP Professional certifications (DevOps Engineer, Architect).
- GenAI / AIOps experience: embedding ML or LLM-based helpers into ops/pipelines.
You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.
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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India