Salary: £40,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements: - Bring deep experience building and operating cloud platforms at scale, including migration considerations and how to address them
- Demonstrate advanced Kubernetes expertise and strong AWS knowledge
- Show hands-on experience running large-scale platforms across build, test, deploy, monitoring and alerting
- Apply Infrastructure as Code approaches with tools such as Terraform or equivalent
- Use container and platform tooling such as Docker, Helm and service meshes such as Istio or equivalent
- Build and support CI/CD pipelines and platform automation using modern tooling
- Operate effectively in a highly regulated environment with a clear focus on security standards and approved design patterns
- Work confidently in Agile Scrum and DevOps environments using tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Communicate complex technical topics clearly to varied audiences and build strong working relationships across teams
Responsibilities: - Oversee engineering initiatives across a global team within DevOps pods
- Partner with stakeholders to meet governance, project delivery and architecture requirements
- Shape the Kubernetes platform roadmap to support growing business demand
- Build and manage AWS cloud environments that enable application deployments
- Engineer solutions using Infrastructure as Code practices
- Ensure operational and compliance activities are completed and remediation plans are owned through to closure
- Provide quality assurance across delivery and embed best practice through development and operations
- Strengthen automation, continuous improvement and engineering standards across the platform
- Maintain high availability across the platform and its core services
Technologies: - AWS
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- Confluence
- DevOps
- Docker
- Helm
- Istio
- Support
- JIRA
- Kubernetes
- Network
- Security
- Terraform
- Web
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We are HSBC, one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with a network covering more than 50 countries and territories. We offer opportunities, support and rewards designed to help our people fulfil their potential. This role sits in our Engineer Foundation Platform team, where we build and run cloud services on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for HSBC Wealth and Personal Banking. You will help shape and evolve a large, globally distributed Kubernetes platform that hosts APIs, applications and event-driven services and supports thousands of developers delivering business applications. We offer tailored professional development opportunities and a competitive pay and benefits package, including private healthcare for all UK-based employees, enhanced maternity and adoption pay with return-to-work support, and a contributory pension scheme with a generous employer contribution. We are committed to diversity, inclusion and accessibility, and we take pride in being a Disability Confident Leader.
last updated 36 week of 2026