Senior Associate Director Engineering

HSBC
Hong Kong
Full timeFunction: Executive & General ManagementSkills: ["High autonomy","Clear ownership","Strong communication","Technical advisory","Stakeholder alignment"]

Lead the end-to-end building and evolution of enterprise cloud platform deliverables, including cloud landing zones, developer self-service tooling, and reusable platform primitives. Serve as a hands-on SME to consult with customers and partner engineers on technical discovery, design reviews, and architecture alignment. Own platform reliability, performance tuning, cost optimization, and observability while building automation and IaC pipelines across Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and secure networking.

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Senior Associate Director Engineering

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Job Summary

Lead the end-to-end building and evolution of enterprise cloud platform deliverables, including cloud landing zones, developer self-service tooling, and reusable platform primitives. Serve as a hands-on SME to consult with customers and partner engineers on technical discovery, design reviews, and architecture alignment. Own platform reliability, performance tuning, cost optimization, and observability while building automation and IaC pipelines across Kubernetes, GitOps, CI/CD, and secure networking.
Location: Hong Kong
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Executive & General Management
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Autonomously lead the design, build, and evolution of enterprise-grade cloud landing zones, developer self-service tools, and platform primitives.
  • •Write reusable, production-grade Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and deployment pipelines to enable seamless platform delivery.
  • •Architect and maintain container platform primitives across Kubernetes ecosystems (EKS/AKS/GKE), GitOps workflows, and ingress/networking layers.
  • •Ensure end-to-end platform reliability, performance tuning, cost optimization, and observability.
  • •Act as the primary SME for technical discovery, customer design reviews, and architectural alignment; translate business needs into executable technical blueprints and advise on new cloud technologies.

Key Requirements

  • •Demonstrated ability to autonomously lead complex cloud-native platform initiatives with minimal supervision.
  • •Enterprise cloud expertise in a multi-cloud environment, with a GCP focus and openness to AWS/Azure practitioners transitioning to GCP.
  • •Hands-on infrastructure and automation skills using IaC tools such as Terraform, OpenTofu, or Pulumi and deployment pipelines.
  • •Deep Kubernetes expertise including EKS/AKS/GKE, Helm, GitOps workflows, and ingress/networking layers with security in mind.
  • •Proficiency in CI/CD and GitOps tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Argo CD, Flux) and automation scripting with Python, Go, or Bash.
Experience:Cloud-nativePlatform engineeringKubernetesGitOps
Skills:High autonomyClear ownershipStrong communicationTechnical advisoryStakeholder alignment
Tech Stack:KubernetesEKSAKSGKEGitOpsTerraformOpenTofuPulumiHelmGitHub ActionsGitLab CIArgo CDFluxVPCVNetIAMRBACPythonGoBash

Company Brief

HSBC
Global banking and financial services organisation offering retail, commercial, corporate and investment banking, wealth management, and global markets services across Europe, Asia, the Americas and the Middle East.
Industry: Banking
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1865
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