Lead AWS Platform Engineer — Kubernetes & Cloud Automation

Hsbc Global Services Limited; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare for UK-based staff

Enhanced maternity and adoption pay &帰

Contributory pension scheme

Job summary

Lead AWS Platform Engineer role at HSBC Global Services Limited in Sheffield, GB, shaping a large, globally distributed Kubernetes platform hosted on AWS for enterprise-scale applications. You will set engineering standards, drive automation, and ensure regulatory compliance in a highly governed environment, partnering with Cloud Services and application teams.

You will engineer IaC-based cloud environments, build CI/CD pipelines, and maintain high platform availability while steering platform

Qualifications

• Experience building and operating cloud platforms at scale, including migration considerations.
• Advanced Kubernetes expertise and strong AWS knowledge.
• Hands-on experience running large-scale platforms across build, test, deploy, monitoring and alerting.
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform or equivalent.

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.

Skills

Kubernetes

AWS

Terraform

Docker

CI/CD

Agile DevOps

Tools

Istio

Helm

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Lead AWS Platform Engineer role at HSBC Global Services Limited in Sheffield, GB, shaping a large, globally distributed Kubernetes platform hosted on AWS for enterprise-scale applications. You will set engineering standards, drive automation, and ensure regulatory compliance in a highly governed environment, partnering with Cloud Services and application teams.

You will engineer IaC-based cloud environments, build CI/CD pipelines, and maintain high platform availability while steering platform