Unix Systems Administrator/Senior. Associate Director, Software Engineering

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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 Senior. Associate Director, Software Engineering

In this role you will:

• Be responsiible for Unix/Linux operations: Provisioning, patching/upgrades, performance tuning, capacity management, and break/fix across RHEL/SUSE/AIX (as applicable).
• Incident/Problem/Change ownership: Triage, RCA, remediation, and preventative actions.
• On-call & major incidents: Rota support with clear technical updates, recovery steps, and stakeholder comms.
• Operational documentation: Maintain runbooks, build standards, support handovers, and known error records.
• Patching & deployments (DIGS): Plan and deliver patch cycles end-to-end (pre-checks, scheduling, implementation, validation, rollback) and resolve failures.
• Compliance & go-live readiness (QuAC): Verify compliance, remediate findings, and provide audit/control evidence; ensure builds meet security/logging/monitoring/backup/DR standards.
• Privileged access governance (RPA/TPAM/Centrify): Enforce least privilege, ensure approvals/auditability, and support access reviews and remediation.
• Automation & internal cloud (Puppet/Ansible/Shell/Python, HIC): Automate and standardise builds, reduce toil/MTTR, and support HIC-hosted workloads with platform teams.

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

• Strong Unix/Linux administration experience in production environments.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise patching/deployment processes (including DIGS or equivalent tooling).
• Compliance/go-live validation experience using QuAC or similar compliance verification tooling.
• Privileged access management experience using RPA processes and tools such as TPAM and/or Centrify.
• Automation with Puppet and Ansible (writing/maintaining modules/playbooks; idempotent approach).
• Scripting: Bash/Shell; Python desirable. Solid troubleshooting across OS, performance, storage, and networking fundamentals.
• Comfortable working within ITIL-aligned change/incident/problem processes and producing audit-ready evidence.
• Experience supporting services on internal cloud platforms (especially HIC). Familiarity with vulnerability management, OS hardening standards, and configuration drift remediation. Exposure to CI/CD concepts and infrastructure-as-code practices.

You’ll achieve more when you join HSBC.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India