Administer and support Oracle/ PostgreSQL- Associate Director,

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HSBC is one of the largest banking and financial services organisations in the world, with operations in 64 countries and territories. We aim to be where the growth is, enabling businesses to thrive and economies to prosper, and, ultimately, helping people to fulfil their hopes and realise their ambitions.

CIB MSS Securities Services (SSV) Infrastructure Team is responsible for delivery of IT infrastructure needs for SSv business needs globally. The current team has strong infrastructure skills and experience across our globally distributed SMEs spread across (Canada, U.K, India and HongKong). To maintain our professional level of Database Administration and Automation service, we need an individual who should possess a strong blend of development tooling experience and methodologies, coupled with an awareness of infrastructure technologies and ITIL processes.

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering

In this role, you will

Administer and support Oracle and PostgreSQL database platforms across development, test and production environments, including installation, configuration, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, monitoring, and performance tuning.

Design and implement infrastructure automation solutions in line with Group standards for database and platform operations, including provisioning, configuration, patching, health checks, capacity reporting, and vulnerability remediation.

Support Oracle high-availability and disaster-recovery technologies, including RAC, Data Guard, and multitenant architecture, as well as relevant PostgreSQL resilience and recovery solutions.

Investigate database and automation-service incidents, lead technical troubleshooting where required, identify root causes, and implement sustainable preventive measures.

Develop reusable, production-ready scripts and automation workflows using Rundeck, Ansible, and related tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, and GitHub, with appropriate testing, logging, error handling, security controls, and documentation.

Partner with infrastructure, application, security, and service-management teams to integrate automation into operational processes and improve service resilience.

Maintain technical documentation, automation runbooks, and support procedures, and contribute to knowledge sharing, continuous improvement, and a strong engineering culture.

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

A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related discipline.

At least 10 years’ hands-on experience in database administration, with strong expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL, including installation, configuration, monitoring, patching, upgrades, backup and recovery, performance tuning, troubleshooting, high availability, disaster recovery and resilience. Practical experience with Oracle RAC, Data Guard and multitenant architecture is required.

Experience with Delphix, Oracle GoldenGate, Oracle Exadata and cloud technologies is advantageous. Good working knowledge of Unix/Linux and Windows platforms, enterprise monitoring, job scheduling and storage technologies, including tools such as BMC Patrol and Control-M, as well as SAN environments.

Familiarity with approved AI-assisted development or operational tools is required. Good understanding ofthe business benefits, limitations and potential risks of AI technologies.

Demonstrable experience in designing, developing, testing and supporting infrastructure automation solutions, with strong hands-on experience in Rundeck and/or Ansible, plus knowledge of at least one additional tool such as GitHub, Grafana, Jenkins or HashiCorp Vault.

Good coding and scripting capability in Python, Shell, PowerShell, SQL and Git, together with experience integrating with APIs and the ability to create maintainable, reusable and production-ready infrastructure automation.

Practical experience in incident, crisis and problem management, including root-cause analysis, risk-based decision-making and the implementation of preventive measures.

Strong ownership, a sense of urgency, analytical and communication skills, attention to detail, and a commitment to processes, security, compliance and operational controls.

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Issued by – HSBC Software Development India