# Senior Consultant Specialist

**Company**: HSBC
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Finance

**Apply**: https://portal.careers.hsbc.com/careers/job/563774611602535?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist.

Principal responsibilities:

- Lead the design, implementation, and enhancement of service monitoring systems to ensure services operate within agreed Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and enable rapid response to performance indicator breaches.

- Drive automation initiatives by identifying opportunities to replace manual tasks with software solutions, improving efficiency and reliability across systems.

- Perform in-depth system analysis, configuration management, and implement improvements to enhance system software performance, availability, scalability, and reliability.

- Oversee and approve deployment changes, ensuring adherence to best practices and minimizing change-related incidents that could impact the error budget.

- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, testers, and product managers, to ensure systems meet non-functional requirements such as performance, security, and availability.

- Develop and enforce best practices for incident management, root cause analysis, and post-mortem processes to improve system resilience.

- Mentor and guide junior SREs, fostering a culture of continuous learning and operational excellence.

- Maintain and expand system documentation, including runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures, ensuring critical knowledge is accessible to the team.

- Lead capacity planning and disaster recovery strategies to ensure system readiness for growth and unexpected events.

- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies, driving innovation and improvements in reliability engineering practices.

Requirements:

- Minimum 10 years of experience in production support, SRE, or DevOps roles, with a proven track record of managing and improving large-scale, mission-critical systems.

- Advanced programming and scripting skills (e.g., Java, Python, Go, SQL, API development, backend systems).

- Extensive experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration platforms (Kubernetes), including designing and managing large-scale deployments.

- Proficiency in monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk, CloudWatch, AppDynamics, Prometheus, or Grafana.

- Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible, with experience in managing cloud-based infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

- Demonstrable experience in designing and implementing automation pipelines for CI/CD and operational tasks.

- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams to resolve complex technical issues and drive system improvements.

- Strong understanding of security best practices, including vulnerability management and secure system design.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in both Mandarin and English, with the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.

- Experience in mentoring and leading junior engineers, fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering scalable and reliable solutions.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- Python
- Go
- SQL
- API development
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Splunk
- CloudWatch
- AppDynamics
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Terraform
- CloudFormation
- Ansible
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP

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