Job Summary

•    We are seeking an experienced and proactive DevOps Lead to join our central team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting and enhancing the bank's infrastructure, ensuring seamless integration and continuous delivery across all departments. This role requires a strong background in DevOps practices, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with various teams to drive the bank's technological advancements

Strateg

•    Understand the bank’s DevOps strategy and implementing automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes.

Business

•    This role requires Design, implement, and maintain scalable and secure CI/CD pipelines to support the bak’s diverse applications and services.

Processes

•    Understand the bank’s software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank’s compliance and security requirement. 

Key Responsibilities

People & Talent

•    Work collaboratively with a team of diverse engineers in sprint delivery.
•    Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support.
•    Conduct briefing and/or training sessions to application delivery teams to help them get onboarded and accelerate adoption.

Risk Management

•    Understand bank’s risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.

Governance

•    Understand bank’s software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.

Skills and Experience

Regulatory & Business Conduct

•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
 
Key stakeholders

•    Azure Devops Engineering and Operations

Other Responsibilitie

•    Monitor system performance, troubleshoot issues, and ensure high availability and disaster recovery.
•    Stay up-to-date with the latest DevOps tools, technologies, and trends to continuously improve the infrastructure.

Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
•    Proven experience as a Infrastructure Engineer with a focus on public cloud environments (e.g., AWS, Azure).
•    Strong understanding of DevOps principles, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code (IaC).
•    Proficiency in scripting and automation using tools such as Python, Shell, or similar languages.
•    Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.
•    Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
•    Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively convey technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
•    Technical competency name:    Proficiency levels
•    Devops, Secops, CI/CD pipelines, Source control system like git    
•    Proficient in any program language (java, node, python)    
•    Ansible or puppet or helm    
•    Unix, Operating System, Bash or powershell    
•    Container technology, kubernetes    
•    Monitoring and Observability    
•    Communication & collaboration    

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.