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We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering.

Business: Emerging Technology

Principal responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain tooling and pipelines for automating development and deployment processes.
• Design, build and maintain dashboards and alerting for monitoring infrastructure and applications.
• Ensure strict adherence of DevOps tooling to architectural principles, technical standards, security requirements, and the software development life cycle (SDLC).
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure issues, ensuring successful, high-quality, and resilient services in production.
• Establish best practices for development, including CI/CD pipelines, testing frameworks, and monitoring tools, and drive continual improvement of engineering processes.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to a team of DevOps engineers, guiding them in building robust, maintainable, and easy-to-use DevOps tooling for development teams.
• Collaborate closely with development engineers, stakeholders, and customers to ensure readiness and stability of a core AI platform that meets business needs.

Requirements

• Bachelor9s or Master9s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field; equivalent experience will be considered.
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership or technical lead role focusing on DevOps, cloud infrastructure or SRE areas.
• Hands on experience on cloud infrastructure ramping up from scratch, i.e. fully setup of a K8s environment with observability in place for hosting micro-services, etc.
• Proven expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure, Alibaba Cloud/ Ali) and container orchestration technologies (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Strong track record in DevOps, including experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and observability for K8s and container services.
• Experience implementing Jenkins scripted/declarative pipelines, Helm charts, Terraform IaC is highly desirable.
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used in DevOps (e.g. Groovy, Ansible, Python, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to mentor and lead DevOps teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to maintain large-scale, mission-critical platforms in production.

You9ll 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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