Job Summary

Processes
•    Ensure the team always follows operational best practices. Ensure the highest levels of ownership, accountability and service are maintained within the team.
•    Review, uphold and enforce all Bank technical, security, quality, and engineering standards on supported assets.
•    Ensure compliance with Bank ITSM processes such as Incident, Change and Problem Management.
•    Identify and implement service improvements that will include, but not be limited to, improving service level delivery; remediating process gaps; using automation to reduce turnaround times; improving the customer experience; reducing cost; improving risk exposure; and optimising the monitoring infrastructure.
•    Perform periodic capacity and performance reporting of the NAS storage infrastructure, and present key findings and recommendations.

Risk Management
•    Proactively identify risks and issues or react to them in a timely manner to minimise any potential impact. Create and implement remediate plans to resolve any non-compliance.
•    Support auditory, regulatory and risk and compliance initiatives that contain deliverables related to the storage and backup service.

Key Responsibilities

•    A talented and passionate senior individual to join Standard Chartered as a Sr Storage Developer/automation engineer, with a primary focus on the technologies in the Block and Object services (PURE Storage, Hitachi, Cisco, Broadcom, DELL PowerMax and Hitachi HCP). 
•    In this role, you will play a key role in the overall journey to treating infrastructure as code in the block and object storage domains, under the umbrella of Private Cloud Infra.  This entails developing, automating, and working with stakeholders on requirements to improve the overall customer experience and streamlining processes to minimise minimal human engagement. 
•    This role will play a critical part in helping shape and guide the future growth and development for Private Cloud Infrastructure and will be responsible for the creation and transformation of the capabilities that will define how we organise to deliver on the strategy. 
•    This includes leading the delivery of platform and storage capabilities crucial to our strategy and improved recovery capabilities. In addition, you will be instrumental in driving the engineering excellence culture and promoting engineering practices for the organization. 
•    This includes defining the proper practices for code reviews, testing, software and pipeline design, and ensuring proper security and reliability practices are enforced.

Skills and Experience

•    Hands on Scripting / Programming – BASH, KSH, PowerShell, Core Python, Ansible Playbooks
•    Strong experience on building and maintenance CI/CD Pipelines & DevOps Practices
•    Solid knowledge of Storage technologies
 

Qualifications

• ONTAP 9    
• NetApp Metrocluster    
• NetApp SyncMirror    
• NetApp SnapMirror    
• NetApp SnapVault    
• NetApp ActiveIQ Unified Manager    
• NetApp hardware knowledge and troubleshooting    
• CIFS / NFS    
• Knowledge of backup technologies    
• Hitachi / Pure storage    
• Scripting    

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

About our Transformation, Technology & Operations Team

Our Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) team is the powerhouse for the Bank. We aim to go further, faster, to ensure we're agile and ready for tomorrow, today. Our diverse network enables us to innovate and build banking solutions that support communities to prosper. We're a place where talented people are encouraged to grow, learn, and thrive, to drive their own career journeys, to reach their full potential.

When you work with us, you’re protecting the reputation and legacy of a 170 year organisation and building on it. We’re driven by progress and continuously evolving to ensure we’re agile and ready for tomorrow, today.

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.