Job Summary

We are seeking a DevOps Engineer (5-10 years’ experience) to build applications and tools that support financial crime prevention and cyber investigations. This role involves developing secure, scalable solutions for investigation, case management, alert triage, and workflow automation, with opportunities to apply GenAI and AI engineering for intelligent investigations.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Contribute to the FinCrime & Cyber technology strategy by building full stack applications that align with business goals and digital transformation priorities.
•    Explore emerging technologies such as GenAI, vector databases, and AI-driven assistants to enhance investigative efficiency.

Business
•    Collaborate with analysts, investigators, and risk teams to translate business needs into technical solutions.
•    Develop features that improve case management, fraud detection, and cyber defence workflows.
•    Ensure applications deliver measurable value in reducing investigation time and improving operational resilience.

People & Talent
•    Work closely with cross-functional teams, providing technical mentorship and knowledge sharing where needed.
•    Contribute to a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and innovation within the FinCrime & Cyber team.

Risk Management
•    Build applications that adhere to cybersecurity and data privacy standards.
•    Identify and mitigate risks in software design, deployment, and integration.
•    Ensure secure authentication, authorization, and audit trails are embedded in applications.

Governance
•    Participate in code reviews, architectural discussions, and design approvals to ensure compliance with technology standards.
•    Maintain documentation, version control, and consistent coding practices aligned with enterprise policies.

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
•    FCSO
•    FRM
•    Cyber Operations

Skills and Experience

•    Container Tech – Kubernetes, Docker 
•    Big Data Tech – Kafka, Nifi, Spark

Qualifications

•    Minimum 5-10 years experience in software development with a preference in Python language.
•    Expertise in source control tools like Git, Bitbucket.
•    Expertise in continuous integration tools like Jenkins and in writing pipeline as code.
•    Expertise in environment provisioning tools like Terraform, Packer, Cloud Formation etc.
•    Expertise in infrastructure and application automation tools like Ansible, Rundeck, Puppet, Chef etc.
•    Expertise in monitoring tools like ELK, Splunk etc.
•    Expertise in container technologies like docker / podman and orchestration using On-Prem (Kubernetes, OpenShift), Cloud (AKS or EKS) etc.
•    Expertise in Linux shell scripting, Windows PowerShell and other scripting technologies.
•    Deep understanding in automation tools and techniques.
•    Expertise in cloud technologies like AWS, Azure.
•    Experience in multi-tier application architecture, development, deployment and support.
•    Strong sense of personal ownership and responsibility in accomplishing the service line and function goals. 
•    Able to get things done in a fast-paced environment. Be transparent and open around what doesn’t work and what does
•    Must be motivated, independent and self-sufficient. Able to receive an assigned task and see it through to completion with minimal supervision.
•    Excellent communication skills – oral, written and presentation; technical reporting writing across various types of target audiences.
•    Strong sense of personal ownership and responsibility in accomplishing the service line and function goals. 
•    Able to get things done in a fast-paced environment. Be transparent and open around what doesn’t work and what does.

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.