Job Summary

The Engineering Excellence & DevOps team sitting in Technology Strategy & Architecture organization are seeking a Dev Ops / test automation engineer with 8 or more years of experience to be an engineering manager, delivering DevOps and Testing Automation related software solutions.

Key Responsibilities

Strategy
•    Understand the bank’s DevOps strategy and implementing automation solutions to improve the bank’s software delivery pipeline. 

Business
•    This role requires broad engagement with application delivery teams across the bank, helping them adopt DevOps pipeline solutions to improve delivery efficiency and maturity.

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

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.

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
•    Head of Solution Delivery
•    Technology Assurance Owners
•    Delivery leads

Qualifications

•    Extensive experience in DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code.
•    Proficiency in testing automation frameworks, tools, and methodologies, with experience in developing and maintaining automated test scripts and suites.
•    Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby, and experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
•    Knowledge of agile methodologies and experience working in Agile/Scrum teams.
•    Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot complex technical issues.
•    Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with developers, operations teams, and other stakeholders.
•    Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Tableau, Grafana, or ELK stack.
•    Familiarity with security best practices and experience with implementing security measures in DevOps environments.
•    Experience with infrastructure automation tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.Hand on experience in implementing various services in Azure cloud resources like storage, load balancers, DNS, logging and monitoring etc.
•    Hands on experience in Linux and database administration activites (Oracle,  MySQL and PostgreSQL)
•    Exposure towards OS level patching and upgrades.
•    Exposure to diff deployments strategy (blue green and canary)

SDLC 
•    Proficiency in SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, or Scrum, and experience with implementing SDLC best practices.
•    Familiarity with software testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing.
•    Experience with software deployment and release management, including release planning, scheduling, and coordination.
•    Knowledge of software configuration management, including version control, branching strategies, and merging.
•    Knowledge of software security best practices, including secure coding, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.

Skills and Experience

•    Hands-on experience in implementing automated testing solutions with frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium, Appium.
•    Hands-on experience in Java. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Kotlin is a bonus
•    Hands-on experience with Test Management tooling such as Azure DevOps Test Plan is highly desirable
•    Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible is desirable
•    Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is desirable
•    Experience with cloud services such as AWS EC2 as well as container platform such as Docker and Kubernetes is bonus

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.