• You’ll be part of an application development ‘pod’ as the Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer.
• Designing, delivering and operating centralised cloud platform solutions to solve common engineering and operational problems, such as monitoring, logging, build, cost optimization etc., as the need arises, to ensure engineering teams are focusing on delivering value.
• Building and managing cloud environments to enable application deployments into test and production.
• Building repeatable solutions on Digital Cloud infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code methods (e.g. Terraform and Ansible)
• Ensuring the cloud-hosted solutions are integrated with or consume centrally provided HSBC services.
• Participating in code reviews and approvals; and definition of continuously improving code standards.
• Developing & maintaining application-specific AMI’s using Infrastructure as Code principles (e.g. Packer and Ansible)

• Understanding of and experience of working within a DevOps culture
• Infrastructure as a Code concepts and techniques
• Understanding of CI/CD and some exposure to relevant toolsets
• Security and Compliance, e.g. IAM and cloud compliance/auditing/monitoring tools
• Customer/stakeholder focus. Ability to build strong relationships with Cloud Services, cross functional development teams, and local and global IT teams.
• Kafka proficiency - understanding of kafka architecture, APIs and internals including topics, partiions, brokers consumers and streams
• Skills in setting up kafka for high availabilty, fault tolerance and scalability
• Security - knowledge of securing kafka clusters, understanding bank-level security requirements and compliance

We don’t expect you to be an expert in all of these areas, but you should have some basic understanding of each of them, and ideally some in-depth knowledge and experience in a few. We’re looking for T-shaped people who can act as SMEs where required.