Job Summary

Senior DevOps Engineer candidates should have a strong background on Linux Shell Scripting, Jenkins, Ansible and Containers. Kubernetes and AWS/GCS/Azure experience would be really nice to have. The candidate will be pragmatic, with a delivery mindset and a desire to deliver constant business value through the effective use of technologies with a proven background in delivering high quality software. The candidates will work closely with business stakeholders to deliver to exacting requirements working in a dynamic global team across multiple locations.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for design and implementation of DevOps that covers:
  • CI/CD pipeline creation and maintenance,
  • Automated deployment,
  • Infrastructure management (Physical Servers, VMs, Storage, Database, etc.),
  • Obsolescence remediation,
  • Configuration management,
  • System logging and monitoring,
  • Security scanning and issue fix,
  • Containerization,
  • Kubernetes deployment,
  • AWS cloud deployment,
  • System migration to new infrastructure / deployment platform,
  • New technology / tool POCs and onboarding.
• Communicate with bank's infra teams to raise requests and discuss/fix issues e.g. Unix/Container/AD/DB teams.
• Communicate with Central DevOps and other DevOps teams across the bank for knowledge/info/idea exchange.
• Champion DevOps innovations by introducing better tools and agile practices.

Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 7+ years of software development, engineering or DevOps experience.
• Strong experience in modern DevOps technology stack.
• Strong experience in container and Kubernetes.
• Strong experience in agile methodologies and working in agile teams.
• Experience in software development using open source technologies is a plus.
• Nice to have experience in working with distributed systems.
• Experience in release management is a plus.
• Nice to have experience in promoting DevOps culture in other organizations.
• Highly effective verbal and written English communication skills.
• Proven ability to work within a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to make good / sound decisions and use independent judgement.
• Strong reasoning, analytical and inter-personal skills.
• Ability to be organized and multi-tasked on different requirements across various stakeholders, and to work independently and under pressure.
• Excellent attention to details and time management.
• Good track record of communicating effectively with both business and IT staff at all levels.
• Cultural sensitivity and awareness to work with a range of people from diverse background and geographies.
• Good presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge in scripting languages such as Linux Shell, Groovy.
• Strong knowledge in Source Control tool of Git, and GitFlow as the branching strategy.
• Strong knowledge in CI/CD toolset such as Jenkins, Bitbucket, JaCoCo, SonarQube, JIRA, Ansible and Artifactory.
• Knowledge in Domain-Driven Design, Microservices Architecture, Micro-Frontend Architecture, REST API, Spring Boot
• Knowledge in Integrated Development Environment (IDE) such as IntelliJ IDEA, VS Code.
• Knowledge in databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle.
• Knowledge in automated testing toolset such as jUnit, Mockito, Cucumber, Selenium etc.
• Knowledge in monitoring, log analysis and dashboard tools such as ELK stack, Splunk, Zipkin, Prometheus, Grafana etc.
• Knowledge in Authentication and Authorisation frameworks and tools, e.g. Kerberos, SSO, OUD, AD/LDAP, JWT, Spring Security.
• Knowledge in Server Management, Networking, Virtualisation/Virtual Machine.
• Knowledge in Storage systems e.g. SSD, SAN, NAS, AWS S3, HCP, MinIO.
• Knowledge in Containers and Container Platforms e.g. Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, OpenShift, AWS EKS.
• Knowledge in Big Data technologies e.g. Hadoop, HDFS, Spark.
• Knowledge in Cloud Platforms e.g. AWS, Azure.

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.