Consultant Specialist

About the Role

The Consultant Specialist role at HSBC is responsible for the strategic evolution of Internal Kubernetes Services (IKS), which forms the backbone of HSBC's private cloud and on-premises container compute. This role will shape a multi-year roadmap to converge legacy Kube-Ops environments into the modern app.hsbc developer console and expand Kubernetes-native deployment capabilities for critical banking workloads. The role also focuses on enhancing the platform experience for developers and IT Service Owners (ITSOs).

Key Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year product roadmap for IKS aligned to Group CTO strategy and hybrid multi-cloud objectives.
• Prioritize the backlog using value frameworks such as WSJF and RICE, balancing reliability, security, and technical debt.
• Steer the migration of legacy Kube-Ops workloads and pipelines onto the app.hsbc standard delivery pipeline.
• Deprecate bespoke tooling by establishing unified platform contracts for hosting and workload management.
• Partner with Console and Frontend Micro-Frontend (MFE) teams to embed IKS across onboarding, component views, and settings.
• Productize Grafana observability (UniOP) for cluster health, pod metrics, and unified logging.
• Define requirements for OpenTelemetry (OTel) distributed tracing across platform and workloads.
• Govern delivery to meet HSBC SDLC, DEPL, and ICE controls, including automated evidence generation and audit trails.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager, or Systems Architect for developer platforms, Kubernetes platforms, or cloud infrastructure products.
• Deep, hands-on understanding of Kubernetes architecture and primitives including Pods, Deployments, Services, Ingress, CRDs, and Operators.
• Experience managing platform design considerations such as multi-tenancy, namespaces, and resource quotas.
• Knowledge of enterprise secrets management and container security practices such as least privilege and hardened runtimes.
• Experience building modern CI/CD approaches including trunk-based development, immutable versioning, and Helm or Kustomize deployments.
• Familiarity with embedding automated quality and security gates using tools such as SonarQube, Nexus IQ, and DAST or equivalent controls.
• Experience running Agile product delivery using Scrum or Kanban with user story mapping, backlog management, and release planning in Jira and Confluence.
• Ability to deliver technology outcomes in a highly regulated environment with strong audit, change management, and risk frameworks.