JOB SUMMARY

•    Work closely with Enterprise Architects, Engineering Analyst, Development team, PSS and other interface teams and ensure all deployments are automated using DevOps Tools including interface system channels.
•    Ensure automated deployment of applications and components, starting from development to production release.
•    Drive the execution of projects in CEE, leading Delivery team.
•    Suggests areas for improvement in internal processes along with possible solutions.
•    Train and mentor, the newer/junior team members to come up the curve by having DevOps tools training and conducting knowledge sharing sessions.
•    Strategic role to provide overall technical leadership and direction encouraging innovation and improvement in DevOps areas and process.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Strategy
•    Align to hive strategy and roadmap
•    Adopt the bank’s technology strategy and drive within our programs/ projects. 
•    Independently drive CCIB strategy on Design, API, Microservices, Cloud Adoption, Transformation led initiatives. 
•    Guide new ideas through the ideation and design process to ensure they are sufficiently defined to address and meet strategic goals. 
•    Build strong relationship with production support teams and SRE and proactively manage production service ticket and issues.

Business
•    Manage good relationship with our stakeholders in Development, PSS, Technology Services and Architecture teams. 
•    Take part in Technology evaluation around Products / Services on new initiatives 

Processes
•    Adhere to ADO and Bank defined principles and guidelines on all Program delivery. 
•    Compliance on ICS guidelines, Security and Data protection
•    Compliant to SDF/SIA process and drive bank towards automating process areas removing redundancies. 
•    Compliant SCB Group code of conduct and standards
•    Compliance on CCIB Design and architecture guidelines , Data governance and policies

People & Talent
•    Train, retain and motivate new joiners in your team.
•    Recognize talent and identify the training/coaching areas for employees. 
•    Identify top talent, succession planning, key person dependency/risk and constantly work to address them with the appropriate plans.

Risk Management
•    Anticipate and handle all the delivery challenges and risks and adhere to Group compliance requirements based on business criticality levels.
•    Identify risk in production releases and raise it in PWG forum on time.
•    Manage the team and raise upfront on the people onboarding requirements as early as possible.

Governance
•    Must be aware of the Group’s regulatory framework and is expected to adhere based on the role.
•    Must understand the oversight and controls related to Business Unit, Job Function and deliver.

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.
•    Lead the [India / CCIB CLDM ITO / Hive Delivery Team] to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles 

Key Stakeholders

•    Architecture team, Product Owner, PSS, Development team, Testing team and Project Managers

Skills and Experience
•    13+ years of experience in DevOps Engineering with experience of leading the team.
•    Expert knowledge in tools like - Ansible, PowerShell and Puppet
•    Expert in hosting and managing applications in OCP and Kubernetes platforms.
•    Expert in application certificate management.
•    Expert in configuring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, Jenkins, Elastic Search and Kibana.
•    Experience in Java / Spring Boot, Kafka, REST, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Cassandra
•    Exceptional leadership capabilities and experience management large multi-disciplinary teams
•    Strong Communication and Influencing skills.

•    Experience in rolling out applications to production.
•    Expertise in understanding application architecture and propose viable deployment automation.
•    Experience in application management on defining project objectives, resource planning, allocation, and support for projects.
•    Experience in handling the issues relating to application resource utilization.
•    Good experience in application support & handling the critical Production issue with PSS support team.
•    Maintaining good technical knowledge to provide direction to the development process.
•    Manage cost and quality improvement activities by implementing new effective processes.
•    Good knowledge in the application release Management and code promotion to higher environment using DevOps tools.

Role Specific Technical Competencies
•    Ansible 
•    PowerShell
•    Shell Scripting
•    Maven
•    Azure DevOps
•    JSE and Python
•    Kafka, ActiveMQ, JMS Messaging  
•    Hazelcast, DSE Cassandra with High Availability
•    ELK, AppDynamics, APM, SRE Concepts, Production Monitoring Tool
•    Containerized platform OCP, Kubernetes, Docker 
•    Secure Design and ICS control

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.