Job Summary

The Lead Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, build and optimizing the organizations cloud platforms to ensure scalability, reliability and security. The role leads the development and implementation of automation tools, manages infrastructure as code and oversees the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. They collaborate with cross-functional teams to enable developer productivity, ensure platform consistently across multiple cloud service providers and support the business goals. 
The cloud plays a critical role in the organisation’s strategy as it complements the global business model with a reliable global network of services. The Lead Cloud Engineer understands this and always finds ways for the platform to meet organisation ambitions and is relentless in making the platform efficient, easy to off/onboard and resilient. 

Key Responsibilities

Business
•    Drive adoption of the cloud platform aligned with business goals
•    Ensure configuration management of cloud environments
•    Develop and maintain API’s for cloud platform that can consumed by orchestration and onboarding tools
•    Ensure consistent workload deployment patterns by standardizing deployment processes, utilizing automation, and enforcing best practices across all environments
•    Maintain consistent account baselines by enforcing standardized configurations, conducting regular audits, and applying best practices to ensure uniformity and security across cloud accounts
•    Ensure the platform baseline is consistently maintained across all cloud environments
•    Ensure the platform is efficient, easy to off/onboard and resilient
•    Enhance developer productivity and efficiency by providing streamlined tools, automated workflows, and clear documentation to support seamless development and deployment processes
•    Embed security and compliance consideration into the platform

Processes

•    Work with Technology Governance to issue appropriate policies, procedures and quality checks for operating and servicing cloud workloads across the bank
•    Have awareness of and understand the relevant regulation for the markets in which the bank operates such as sovereignty and resilience.
•    Ensure compliance with Standard Chartered governance frameworks and challenge them where appropriate.
•    Keep program management teams in-tune with statuses and risks during change delivery
 

Qualifications

• Cloud Computing
• Cloud Computing Architecture
• Agile Development
• Emerging Technologies

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.