Kubernetes Platform Engineer
Tech Stack
Job Description
Some careers shine brighter than others.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.Your career opportunityThe Kubernetes Platform Engineer will work within an agile team of Engineers and Operations personnel building a highly resilient, scalable, performant and developer friendly GKE Kubernetes Platform in an automated and efficient manner.
The Platform Engineer will work alongside the Application DevOps teams and cross-functional IT teams.
The engineer will be required to use their initiative to innovate to achieve maximum performance and be prepared to investigate and use new products/services offered by GCP and the Cloud Native community.What you’ll doBuild and manage the HSBC GKE Kubernetes Platform to easily let application teams deploy to Kubernetes.
Mentor and guide support engineers, represent the platform technically through talks, blog posts and discussionsEngineer solutions on HSBC GKE Kubernetes Platform using Coding, Automation and Infrastructure as Code methods (e.g. Python, Tekton, Flux, Helm, Terraform, …).
Manage a fleet of GKE clusters from a centrally provided solutionEnsure compliance with centrally defined security controls and with operational risk standards (E.g. Network, Firewall, OS, Logging, Monitoring, Availability, Resiliency and Containers).
Ensure good Change management practice is implemented as specified by central standards.
Provide impact assessments where requested for changes proposed on HSBC GCP core platform.Build and support continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and continuous testing activities.
Engineering activities to implement patches for VMs and containers provided centrallySupport non-functional testing Update support and operational documentation as required Fault find and support Applications teamsOn a rotational on call basis provide out of business hours support as part of our 24 x 7 coverage What you need to have to succeed in this roleDemonstrable Kubernetes and Cloud Native experience – building, configuring and extending Kubernetes platformsAutomation scripting (using scripting languages such as Terraform, Python etc.) Experience of working with Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and continuous testing tools Experience of working with Kubernetes resource configuration tooling (Helm, Kustomize, kpt)Experience working within an Agile environment Programming experience in one or more of the following languages: Python or Go Ability to quickly acquire new skills and tools Nice to haveGCP Certifications - ideally professional CKAS / CKA CertificationsKubernetes native Continuous Delivery (FluxCD, ArgoCD)Implementing workload observability using logging and monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, GCP Monitoring)Experience operating in highly regulated industry, e.g.
Financial Services What we offerCompetitive salaryAnnual performance-based bonusAdditional bonuses for recognition awardsMultisport cardPrivate medical careLife insuranceOne-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).Corporate parties & eventsCSR initiativesNursery discountsFinancial support with trainings and educationSocial fundFlexible working hours Free parkingIf your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:Online behavioural test (only for external candidates)Telephone screen (only for external candidates)Job interview with the hiring managerWe are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!
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