Job Summary

As a DevOps Platform Engineer, you will play a critical role in the design, development, and deployment of our platform infrastructure. You will work collaboratively with a cross-functional team, focusing on CI/CD pipelines, cloud and on-prem platform setup, and infrastructure as code (IaC) management. Your expertise will be pivotal in ensuring the scalability, reliability, and efficiency of our platform solutions.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Business
•    Develop and champion solutions through coding and automation 
•    Ensure platform delivery and services meet highest level of standard of availability and reliability.
•    Manage the DevOps tools deployed on-prem and on Kubernetes
•    Review the current DevOps pipeline and provide implement a short and long term plan.
•    Experience in building pipeline for hybrid cloud solutions
•    Onboard development team into the DevOps pipeline. 
•    Expertise in Config and Development tools experience.
•    Knowledge in DevOps tool chain.
•    Define the application monitoring, alerting and reporting framework.
•    Collaborate with the solution architects and application development leads to co-create robust and scalable application framework by providing best practices in design & coding.

Key Responsibilities

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
•    Software Engineering Teams
•    Platform Teams
•    Product Owner
•    Engineers
•    CISRO, CISO

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]

Skills and Experience

Cloud Computing 
Cloud Computing Architecture
Agile Development
Emerging Technologies
Kafka
Continuous Integration

Qualifications

•    Microservices Architecture: Proficient in designing and managing microservices, with experience in Apache Kafka.
•    Cloud Computing: Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, and EKS.
•    Container Technologies: Extensive experience with containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
•    Programming and Scripting: Strong skills in Python, with additional proficiency in Ansible and Groovy being advantageous.
•    Infrastructure Knowledge: Solid understanding of networks, operating systems, and other infrastructure components.
•    Configuration Management: Experience with tools like Ansible and Packer for managing configurations.
•    Continuous Integration: Proficient in using tools like Maven and Jenkins for CI processes.
•    Continuous Deployment: Experience with deployment tools such as Jenkins and Rundeck.
•    Communication Skills: Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.

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.