Job Summary

• We are seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer Lead to drive the design, implementation, and optimization of our DevOps practices across banking technology platforms. The role requires both strong technical depth and leadership ability to guide teams in delivering secure, resilient, and scalable solutions that support trading, payments, risk, data, and regulatory platforms.
• The DevOps Engineer Lead will work closely with development, infrastructure, operations, cybersecurity, and compliance teams to ensure seamless delivery pipelines, high system availability, and strict adherence to industry regulations.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy
• Lead a team of DevOps engineers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and performance management.
• Define and execute the DevOps strategy aligned with the bank’s digital transformation, cloud adoption, and automation goals.
• Partner with application, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure DevOps practices meet regulatory, compliance, and resiliency standards (e.g., MAS, HKMA, SOX, GDPR).

Engineering & Delivery
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across multiple applications (trading, payments, risk, and data platforms).
• Champion infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation.
• Drive automation of build, deployment, monitoring, and incident response processes.
• Oversee container orchestration (Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker) and ensure secure configuration and resilience.
• Collaborate on hybrid-cloud initiatives (AWS, Azure, GCP, private cloud) while meeting data residency and regulatory requirements.

Operational Excellence
• Implement proactive monitoring, observability, and incident response frameworks to minimize downtime in mission-critical banking systems.
• Lead root cause analysis and post-mortem reviews for production issues, driving continuous improvement.
• Enforce best practices for security, access control, secrets management, and compliance monitoring in CI/CD pipelines.
• Establish and track KPIs for deployment frequency, MTTR (Mean Time to Recovery), change failure rate, and system reliability.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
• Work with technology and business stakeholders to prioritize DevOps initiatives and resolve bottlenecks.
• Communicate progress, risks, and opportunities to senior management in a clear and actionable manner.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, automation, and continuous improvement across technology teams.

Key Competencies
• Leadership – ability to coach, mentor, and inspire high-performing engineering teams.
• Strategic Thinking – balancing long-term DevOps vision with short-term delivery needs.
• Execution Excellence – proven ability to deliver resilient, automated, and secure solutions.
• Collaboration – strong ability to work cross-functionally with developers, operations, and business.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset – always seeking better performance, security, and automation.

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 the [country / business unit / function/XXX [team] 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.
•    [Insert local regulator e.g. PRA/FCA prescribed responsibilities and Rationale for allocation].
[Where relevant - Additionally, for subsidiaries or relevant non -subsidiaries]
•    Serve as a Director of the Board of [insert name of entities]
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Other Responsibilities
Embed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in XXXX [country / business unit / team]; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); [List all responsibilities associated with the role]

Qualifications

Essential
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or Infrastructure Engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• Proven track record managing CI/CD pipelines in complex, regulated industries (ideally banking or financial services).
• Hands-on expertise with:
• CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, Tekton)
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef)
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, or private cloud)
• Monitoring/observability (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Splunk, Datadog, AppDynamics)
• Strong knowledge of networking, security, encryption, and compliance in financial systems.

Preferred
• Experience in banking or financial services environments with high availability and low-latency systems.
• Knowledge of microservices architecture and service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd).
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills with senior technology and business leaders.

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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.