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 Associate Director, Software Engineering

Your responsibilities will include:

• Lead a variety of different initiatives with a global team of Engineers.
• Work closely with the stakeholders to ensure governance, project delivery and Architecture requirements are met.
• Work across one or more DevOps ‘pods’ as the Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineer
• Help to drive the Kubernetes platform forward to keep up with growing business demand.
• Build and manage Cloud environments to enable application deployments.
• Lead the engineering of solutions using Infrastructure As Code methods
• Ensure Operational and compliance activities are undertaken, and remediation actions planned for services.
• Provide quality assurance for engineering delivery and ensure best practice is followed throughout development and operations.
• Support continuous improvement processes and contribute to engineering best practice working with other Infrastructure Lead DevOps/Cloud Engineers
• Making sure the platform is highly available at all times.

The ideal candidate for this role will have some of the below experience/qualifications :

• Understand the complexities of moving to the cloud and how to overcome them and build at scale
• Advanced Kubernetes and Cloud knowledge (AWS)
• Familiarisation of how to run large scale platforms from build, test, deploy, monitor, and alerting.
• Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Cloud Services, Application DevOps, cross functional IT and global/local IT teams.