Job Title
System Engineer
Location
Sheffield, UK
Work Mode
Hybrid (3 days onsite)
Job Type
Contract
JD
The role requires an experienced systems engineer with strong technical leadership and collaboration skills. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in cloud platform management, infrastructure delivery pipelines (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP) and scripting in Bash, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, etc.
In This Role You Will
- Act as a Technical SME, designing and developing innovative automated solutions to complex problems utilising the cloud environments.
- Design and support custom-built applications within HSBC Azure environment, ensuring secure, reliable and high‑performing deployments.
- Build and manage Azure Infrastructure, including Virtual Machines, VM images, Virtual Networks (VNets), subnets, private endpoints and Azure Storage.
- Develop and deploy Python functions within an Azure Functions App.
- Develop Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) such as ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform.
- Support CI/CD practices through deployment automation and version‑controlled infrastructure in Azure DevOps.
- Integrate monitoring, logging and diagnostics for custom applications using Azure Monitor, Application Insights and Log Analytics.
- Integrate with AI‑related Azure services such as OpenAI and contribute to integration strategies involving LLMs.
- Ensure that custom‑built applications are built and maintained inline with HSBC standards, governance and controls, ensuring compliance with SLDC & DEPL controls, AI Governance and legal & regulatory requirements.
- Support and extend an existing architecture in close partnership with the principal architect and core development team.
- Produce well‑documented, maintainable infrastructure configurations and effectively communicate implementation details with engineers and stakeholders.
- Work within evolving technical landscape and contribute to the refinement and evolution of architecture and infrastructure decisions.
- Utilise strong problem‑solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues, troubleshoot deployment challenges, and propose scalable and secure solutions.
- Promote a “self‑critical” and continuous assessment and improvement culture whereby identification of weaknesses in the bank’s control plane (people, process and technology) are brought to light and addressed in an effective and timely manner.
- Support engagement of HSBC Global Businesses and Functions to drive a global up‑lift in cyber‑security awareness and help to evangelise HSBC Cybersecurity efforts and success.
To be successful in this role you should meet the following requirements
- Experience within an enterprise‑scale organisation including hands‑on experience of complex data centre environments, working within a similar role (e.g. DevOps Engineer, Cloud Engineer, Security Engineer) is mandatory.
- Expert level knowledge of one or more leading Cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform and Alibaba Cloud.
- Expert level knowledge and proven experience managing Azure App Services, Azure Virtual Machines, and Azure Storage solutions.
- Hands‑on experience in one or more programming or scripting language (e.g. Python, PowerShell, Bash, Terraform).
- Experience and demonstrated experience of building and maintaining CI/CD Pipelines to support efficient software delivery.
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- IT Services and IT Consulting
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