Job Summary

Cloud Engineering Lead with 10-18 years of experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud and on-premise infrastructure. This role involves leading infrastructure automation, driving cloud adoption strategies, and mentoring junior engineers. The ideal candidate should have deep expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Kafka, Hazelcast, ELK, Prometheus, and strong networking skills.

Key Responsibilities:
•    Infrastructure Architecture & Automation:
o    Lead the design and automation of infrastructure provisioning using Terraform and Ansible.
o    Oversee the deployment of Kafka, Hazelcast, and ELK on cloud and on-prem environments.
o    Define and implement multi-region, HA/DR strategies.
•    Cloud & Kubernetes Management:
o    Architect and manage large-scale Kubernetes clusters on AWS, Azure, OpenShift.
o    Optimize networking, security, and performance in cloud and on-prem environments.
o    Implement multi-tenancy solutions using Capsule.
•    Monitoring, Observability & Security:
o    Design and implement enterprise-grade monitoring using Prometheus, ELK, and custom alerting solutions.
o    Ensure infrastructure security, compliance, and governance.
o    Implement best practices for IAM, encryption, and role-based access control.
•    Leadership & Strategic Initiatives:
o    Drive cost optimization initiatives, including AWS Managed Kafka adoption.
o    Lead cloud migration and hybrid cloud adoption strategies.
o    Mentor junior engineers and provide technical leadership to cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

•    Act as Product Owner (PO) and Engineering Lead for Infrastructure requirements.
•    Lead overall SCPay infrastructure capacity planning.
•    Work outside the scrum framework to address overall SCPay Infrastructure needs.
•    Drive innovation initiatives, including AI, Platform Engineering, and related advancements.
•    Serve as the SME for the SKE Platform.

Processes
•    Ensure adherence to standardized cloud and infra structure deployment processes, optimizing automation, security and scalability. 
•    Locate and define new process improvement opportunities.

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.] * 
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board 
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent) 

Key stakeholders
•    Central Cloud Support team
•    Central Cloud Engineering team
•    Central Observability Platform team
•    Hive Leads
•    Sub domain Leads.

Skills and Experience

•    AWS / Azure Services
•    Kubernetees
•    Scripting languages – Python/Shell
•    Kafka, Hazelcat, Elastic Search, CI/CD – Jenkins / Azure ADO
•    Ansible, Terraform

Qualifications

•    Education           BE / MCA / MSC in Computer Science 
•    Certifications    AWS Cloud Practitioner, CKA, or Azure certifications preferred
•    Deep expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Kafka, Hazelcast, ELK, Prometheus.
•    Strong background in cloud networking, Linux, and security.
•    Extensive experience with AWS, Azure, OpenShift, and hybrid cloud environments.
•    Strong programming/scripting skills (Python, Bash) for automation.
•    Proven experience in HA, DR, and multi-region deployments.
Preferred Qualifications:
•    AWS Solutions Architect, CKAD/CKA, or Azure certifications preferred.
•    Strong leadership and problem-solving skills

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.