Enterprise Cloud Engineer

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 Enterprise Cloud Engineer.

As an Enterprise Cloud Engineer you will join the Cybersecurity Product Sustained Engineering team, with the prime responsibility of looking after the Cyber Forensics Cloud Lab hosted on the Azure platform. The wider team manages a large scale Splunk installation on AWS IaaS-hosted services, as well as inter-cloud ingestion pipelines. The role requires an experienced systems engineer with strong technical leadership and collaboration skills.  The ideal candidate will have significant experience in cloud platform management, infrastructure delivery pipelines (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP, scripting in Bash, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, etc.). 

As an HSBC employee in the UK, you will have access to tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package. This includes private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay and support when you return to work, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution.

In this role you will:

• Act as a Technical SME, designing and developing innovative automated solutions to complex problems utilising the cloud environments.
• Design and support custom-built applications within HSBC Azure environment, ensuring secure, reliable and high-performing deployments.
• Build and manage Azure Infrastructure, including Virtual Machines, VM images, Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, private endpoints and Azure Storage.
• Develop and deploy Python functions within an Azure Functions App.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) such as ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform.
• Support CI/CD practices through deployment automation and version-controlled infrastructure in Azure DevOps.
• Integrate monitoring, logging and diagnostics for custom applications using Azure Monitor, Application Insights and Log Analytics.
• Integrate with AI-related Azure services such as OpenAI and contribute to integrations strategies involving LLMs.
• Ensure that custom-built applications are built and maintained inline with HSBC standards, governance and controls, ensuring compliance with SLDC & DEPL controls, AI Governance and legal & regulatory requirements.
• Support and extend an existing architecture in close partnership with the principal architect and core development team.
• Produce well-documented, maintainable infrastructure configurations and effectively communicating implementation details with engineers and stakeholders.
• Work within evolving technical landscape and contribute to the refinement and evolution of architecture and infrastructure decisions.
• Utilise strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues, troubleshoot deployment challenges, and propose scalable and secure solutions.
• Promote a “self-critical” and continuous assessment and improvement culture whereby identification of weaknesses in the bank’s control plane (people, process and technology) are brought to light and addressed in an effective and timely manner.
• Support engagement of HSBC Global Businesses and Functions to drive a global up-lift in cyber-security awareness and help to evangelise HSBC Cybersecurity efforts and success.

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

• Experience within an enterprise scale organisation including hands-on experience of complex data centre environments, working within a similar role ie DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Security Engineer is mandatory.
• Expert level knowledge of one of more leading Cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud.
• Expert level knowledge and proven experience managing Azure App Services, Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Storage solutions.
• Hands on experience in one or more programming or scripting language (e.g Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform).
• Experience and demonstrated experience of building and maintaining CI/CD Pipelines to support efficient software delivery.

This role is based in Sheffield.

Opening up a world of opportunity

Being open to different points of view is important for our business and the communities we serve. At HSBC, we’re dedicated to creating diverse and inclusive workplaces - no matter their gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or age. We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring careers at HSBC are inclusive and accessible for everyone to be at their best. We take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader and will offer an interview to people with disabilities, long term conditions or neurodivergent candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role.

If you have a need that requires accommodations or changes during the recruitment process, please get in touch with our Recruitment Helpdesk:

Email: hsbc.recruitment@hsbc.com

Telephone: +44 207 832 8500