GCP Admin / Consultant Specialist

In this role, you will:

• The role holder must also drive operational excellence across our businesses worldwide, achieving this through the consolidation, simplification and continuous improvement of processes across the full range of HSBC operations. 
• Should be able to manage multiple GCP projects 
• Collaborate with application packaging team and assist resolving all technical challenges that might be present during integration phase.
• Communicate with the relevant project teams regarding resolving technical / application issues related to delivery of GCP solutions. 
• Work with Engineering and operations to ensure our environment is monitored appropriately.
• Ensure SLA commitments are met, and escalate accordingly.
• Provide Deployment activities to create & maintain development, test, UAT and production environments in project deployment phase.
• Establish, document and implement the best practices in the end to end application initiation and deployment processes.
• Working for continuous improvement to achieve customer satisfaction.
• Should have flexibility as per project needs.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

• Knowledge in banking domain 
• GCP Cloud engineer certification would be desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree (in science, computers, information technology or engineering)
• Experience in driving GCP Data Analytics projects/ecosystems independently
• Experience in GCP IaaS such as GCE, GAE, GKE, VPC, DNS, Interconnect VPN, CDN, Cloud Storage, FileStore, Firebase, Deployment Manager, Stackdriver.
• Experience in GCP services such as Cloud Endpoints, Dataflow, Dataproc, Datalab, Dataprep, Cloud Composer, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions
• Experience on Terraform and Devops (CI/CD pipeline)
• Experience in publishing GCP cost Dashboards, Alerting and monitoring 
• Excellent understanding of machine learning setup in Google architecture and google Analytics products
• Should have experience working in agile and devops environment using team collaboration tools such as Confluence, JIRA.
• Programming skills and hands-on experience in Python desirable
• Proficiency in working with cloud based native data stores/databases
• Knowledge on design patterns for GCP third party tools setup and native tools usage
• Experience and ability to manage a small team of tech specialists
• Excellent multitasking ability - Must have ability to track multiple issues, effectively manage time and competing priorities, and to drive results through partner organizations.
• Strong communication skills (verbal, written, and presentation of complex information and data).
• Experience of planning and prioritising their own time effectively, aware of their responsibilities and committed to delivering these efficiently
• Develop process to track test environments required for QA
• Create short-term plans to deliver environments to support sprint-based development
• Coordinate activities of technical specialists to automate the setup and configuration of environments
• Monitor and guarantee uptime of test environments
• Provide ongoing support for environments
• Develop KPIs to track efficacy of test environment delivery efforts
• Move environment activities toward a goal of 100% automation
• Forecast environment requirements based on anticipated future demand from multiple application development teams
• Good knowledge in Juniper Ingestion.
• Developing Feeds with different sources of on-prem and loading data into GCP in Juniper.
• Good knowledge in scheduling the feeds for different frequencies in Juniper.