Job Summary

The Cloud Engineer role exists to design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions across multi-cloud environments. 
•    Deliver resilient cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud that support application scalability, security, availability, and performance. 
•    Accelerate engineering delivery through DevOps practices, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, container platforms, and reliable release tooling. 
•    Improve production stability through observability, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, cost transparency, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. 

Key Responsibilities

Cloud architecture and implementation 
•    Design and implement scalable, secure and highly available cloud solutions across AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud. 
•    Build resilient cloud architectures that support performance, availability and future growth requirements. 
DevOps, automation and platform engineering 
•    Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD and Azure DevOps. 
•    Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible to standardise provisioning and configuration. 
•    Manage containerised workloads using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm. 
Reliability, observability and optimisation 
•    Implement monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Promtail. 
•    Troubleshoot production issues and optimise cloud environments for cost, performance and operational stability. 
Collaboration and capability building 
•    Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud solutions aligned to engineering, risk and operational needs. 

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills 
•    Multi-cloud architecture: AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud 
•    Container platforms: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm 
•    Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Ansible 

Other Skills 
•    CI/CD engineering: Jenkins, Argo CD and Azure DevOps 
•    Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Prom tail 
•    Production troubleshooting, performance and cost optimisation 
•    Cloud governance in banking or regulated environments  

Motivations

•    Solving complex cloud engineering problems that improve resilience, scalability and security for critical applications. 
•    Automating repeatable engineering work through modern DevOps, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices. 
•    Working in collaborative, regulated technology environments where production stability, cost efficiency and continuous improvement matter.

Qualifications

Key Experiences 
•    6-8 years total experience, including a minimum of 5 years relevant cloud experience; hands-on delivery across cloud architecture, DevOps, infrastructure automation, container platforms, observability and production support. 

Certifications / Qualifications (only where mandatory) 
•    AWS and/or Azure certifications desirable 

Languages 
•    English proficiency suitable for technical documentation, stakeholder collaboration and production support communications.  

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.