Job Summary

The Container Platforms team, which encompasses the following functions, is a pivotal part of delivering on the Technology strategy for the Bank, which comprises

•    Kubernetes Container Platforms
•    Openshift Container Platforms

There is a requirement for a Container Reliability Engineer within Container Platforms, who will be a key member of the team responsible for building and supporting innovative container hosting platforms for Standard Chartered Bank. The team has members in Poland, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore , China and in India and offers services based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP), AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and podman container runtime.

Key Responsibilities

Kubernetes platform widely used across the bank.

•    Solid understanding of K8s architecture and how K8s works essentially in kernel/user space.
•    Understanding of OCI, CRI, CNI, CSI, how core components are orchestrated in K8s cluster. This includes but not limit to etcd, kubelet, kube-proxy, kubeapiserver, kube-scheduler, containerd, runc.
•    Cluster life cycle management: Provision, Backup, Restore, Upgrade, Scale, Delete.
•    RBAC design in multi-tenancy cluster.
•    Multiple ways of cluster authentication.
•    Basic k8s development patterns. Operator, CRD+Controller.
•    Understanding of cluster networking / overlay network. How c2c, p2p, p2s, e2i traffic is routed. Familiar with one or two CNI implementations (Flannel,Calico, Antrea, Weave, Cilium).
•    Should be able to design network policies to fulfil zero-trust principal.
•    Hands on experience on container security. Familiar with CIS/FIPS/NIST benchmarks. Decent footprints of pod/container security context config. Be able to design solutions to make the cluster compliant.
•    Encryption at transit/rest solution design in cluster.
•    Hands on experience on cluster monitoring/alerting/logging capabilities.
•    Bash, Golang programming skills

Nice to have
•    Cloud experience on AWS/GCP/Azure
•    Azure Dev Ops/CICD. Terraform. GitOps 1
•    Python
•    Helm/Kustomize
•    OCP administration experience

Strategy
•    Responsible for having awareness and understanding of the Group’s business strategy and model appropriate to the role.

Business
•    Responsible for having awareness and understanding of the wider business, economic and market environment in which the Group operates. 

Processes
•    Responsible for executing the Containers Engineering processes.

People & Talent 
•    Not applicable, not a people leader role 

Risk Management
•    Identify, assess, monitor, control and mitigate risks of the OpenShift/Kubernetes Containers, as well as understand the main risks facing the team and promote risk awareness.
•    Adhere to common practices to mitigate risk in their respective domain. 

Governance 
•    Ensure all artefacts and assurance deliverables are as per the required standards and policies (e.g., Standard Chartered Bank Governance Standards, Enterprise System/software Delivery Lifecycle, etc.)
•    Understand and comply with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, and regulations, including those governing anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, and sanctions; the Group’s policies and procedures; and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters.
•    Embed the Group’s values and code of conduct to ensure that adherence with the highest standards of ethics, and compliance with relevant policies, processes, and regulations among employee’s form part of the culture.

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 Containers SRE 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.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures.

Key stakeholders
Application team, CIO, Engineering team, Product owner, Risk team, ITSM team

Other Responsibilities
•    Continuously provide feedback to improve our strategy, people, and processes.
•    Communicate effectively to both internal team members and customers.

Skills and Experience

•    5+ Years of experience in Information Technology
•    Must have hands on experience in production support using one or more containers orchestration platform such as Kubernetes, Openshift or Docker.
•    Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) qualification would be advantageous
•    Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration would be advantageous
•    Amazon Web Services and Azure certifications would be advantageous
•    Licences and Certifications/Accreditations – ITIL v3 Foundation or similar certifications or training would be advantageous
•    Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications: IT related tertiary qualification or equivalent experience.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    Kubernetes Container Platforms
•    OpenShift Container Platforms
•    Linux/Unix
•    Engineering
•    Problem Solving 

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.