Internal Kubernetes Platform Lead Engineer

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Your career opportunity

HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organizations in the world, with operations in 62 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 realize their ambitions.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our global team in the role of IKP Support Engineer at Hybrid Integration Platform. Hybrid Integration Platform is one of the platforms that constitutes The Enterprise Infrastructure Area within IT function. The function powers the platforms that enable our internal clients to operate efficiently, securely, and with insight to accelerate the internal customer journey, increase service agility, and improve resilience. IKP Team provides containerization capabilities to our internal customers around the globe.

What you’ll do

• Provide end-to-end platform engineering and lifecycle management on Internal Kubernetes Platform

• Build tools and automation to manage platform infrastructure and services lifecycle. Develop platform operations to orchestrate all automation solutions, rather than maintaining isolated pipelines

• Improve reliability, quality, and time to upgrade cluster and service versions

• Measure and optimize system performance and resource utilization, and plan for future capacity

• Build dashboards and visualizations to users for transparency of platform status

• Detect system issue and develop self-healing solution where possible

• Provide operational support and engineering for multiple software development teams.  Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning

• Implement infrastructure changes at weekends or out of normal operating hours. 

• Plan duties and the other administrative tasks for a team in line with Polish Labor Code. 

What you need to have to succeed in this role

• Administrative knowledge with hands-on experience with container and Kubernetes infrastructure as well as management and operation experience on production environment

• Engineering skillset to manage infrastructure by developing automation, API and pipeline

• Core competencies: Linux OS, Container, Kubernetes and K8S native system like Istio, Cilium, CSI solution etc. 

• Ability to script in one or more shell languages, such as Bash and to program (structured and OO) with one or more high level languages, such as Python or Golang

• Ability to use orchestration tools like Jenkins and Ansible (core & AAP) and observability tools like Splunk & Datadog 

• Experience in infrastructure lifecycle management and in development following software lifecycle using Github

• ITIL awareness

• A proactive approach to spot problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

• Ability to communicate in English on a business level.

What we offer

• Competitive salary

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Additional bonuses for recognition awards

• Multisport card

• Private medical care

• Life insurance

• One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).

• Corporate parties & events

• CSR initiatives

• Nursery discounts

• Language classes

• Financial support with trainings and education

• Social fund

• Flexible working hours 

• Free parking

If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:

• Online behavioural test

• Telephone screen

• Zoom interview with the hiring manager

We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!

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