Job Summary

•    we are seeking a highly skilled and experienced senior mlops engineer with expertise in databricks and advanced python development for machine learning applications. The ideal candidate will play a critical role in operationalizing machine learning models, building scalable pipelines, and developing robust python-based solutions to support ml workflows. You will collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, and software developers to deploy, monitor, and optimize machine learning systems in production environments.

Key Responsibilities

•    10+ years of experience leading a microservice platform engineering solution, automation, SRE.
•    Strong belief in working with agile methodology and practices to manage a key middleware of the bank that manages large domain integration solutions.
•    Hands-on experience in implementing automated solutions with python, shell scripting, ansibles.
•    Hands-on experience in atleast one language choice of Java, JavaScript, Scala, Python.
•    Hands-on experience and deep experience in CI/CD tooling such as Azure DevOps, Jenkin, Jira, Ansible.
•    Working knowledge of microservice development and deployment architectures in the industry.
•    Working knowledge of OIDC, oAuth 2.0, Tokenization framework, MFA, Identity Management, Cryptography.
•    Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as ADO, Git, Ansible is a must.
•    Experience with Unix host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is a must
•    Working experience of APM for large service platform with Prometheus, ELK , Graphana. He must also have ability to architect and specify the best practice for implementation within the team.
•    Experience with containers as well as container platform such as Podman, Docker and Kubernetes
•    Working knowledge of database systems of oracle or Postgre. Especially deployment and maintainability of the code within context of CI/CD.
•    Ensuring that all relevant platforms are being efficiently and appropriately supported in SCB Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) toolchains, including identifying opportunities for toolchain and operational practise improvement and refinement, and ensuring that ‘infrastructure as code’ deployment mechanisms are common and portable across Cloud and non-Cloud environments 
•    Platform estate management including license / support subscription oversight, control and best utilization, automation of estate reporting and management, including close collaboration with other Platforms and ITIL Team team/product leads to ensure that Cloud Support needs are covered in line with Bank strategy and policy
•    Supporting adoption of containers and container control frameworks
•    Incident Management for issues related to platform, acting as senior escalation and control point for Support (and wider Platforms Teams) and driving service restoration and stability during significant incidents on the platform.

Strategy
•    Understand the bank’s platform technologies and strategy. Meet the automation expectations to enhance the Ci/CD lifecycle, from development to deployment and monitoring.
Business
•    Collaborate with application delivery teams to adopt and implement pipeline solutions, enhancing delivery efficiency and operational maturity.
Processes
•    Understand the bank’s software delivery processes and implement Devops solutions that align with compliance and security requirements.
People & Talent
•    Collaborate with diverse engineers in sprint delivery, create technical documentation, prepare training materials, provide technical support, and conduct sessions to onboard and accelerate adoption by application delivery teams.
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. 
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
•    Delivery Leads
•    Engineering Team
•    Architect

Skills and Experience

•    CI/CD Tools
•    Python
•    Openshift/EKS
•    Helm Charts
•    Unix Shell Scripts
•    Azure/AWS
•    SQL
•    CI/CD Tools
•    Networking

Qualifications

•    Computer Science degree / Computer Post Graduation

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.