Specialist Engineer for Internal Cloud
Sheffield, GB, S1 4NB
If you’re 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.
Your career opportunity
HSBC Internal Cloud (HIC) and IKP (Internal Kubernetes Platform) are our strategic hosting platforms supporting the fast-growing demand from numerous customers. We have deployed over 15,000 servers in 3 regions underpinning thousands of Technology services.
As a specialist engineer, you will lead engineering solutions, working with a federated support team and help drive the internal cloud infrastructure and products.
What you’ll do
• Design, deliver and operate solutions to solve common engineering and operational challenges to ensure the team is focused on delivering value.
• Provide technical guidance and support for customers whilst driving deployment consistency by providing automation and configuration management services to the products.
• Participate in code reviews and approvals; and definition of continuously improving code standards and create self-service automation to allow ease of adoption for users
• Ensure infrastructure and services are built and configured in compliance with centrally defined blueprints, design patterns and standards, reusing approved components as far as possible.
• Help provide engineering solutions that align to the product strategy and roadmap, its future state architecture and drive the customer success agenda for the product whilst driving strong collaboration between federated domains underpinning internal cloud across CTO, and across the business lines and with vendors.
• Produce documentation to allow other engineers to use the solution and enhance it as necessary and join and support the crisis calls across the global regions as necessary and weekend L3 supports.
What you need to have to succeed in this role
• Experience and working knowledge on HIC/IKP, Hybrid Integration Platform, Software Defined Compute, Storage and Networks.
• Working knowledge of Load Balancers and proxy services and technologies along with understanding of Cloud technologies is desirable along with Strong understand of public cloud offerings with preferable experience in building applications on
• Experience in Automation scripting, and a deep technical expertise on distributed platforms and providing production support, troubleshooting issues and providing solutions and engaging vendors.
• Working knowledge of multiple middleware disciplines (Web Servers, Application Servers, Messaging and Application Lifecycle Management) is highly desirable
• Strong People Leadership, Articulation, Strategic Planning and Execution, Networking, and Influencing Skills.
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