Job Description

Job Summary
The Senior Cloud Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions. This role involves working closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability, efficiency, and security of cloud infrastructure. The position requires strong technical expertise in cloud platforms, automation, and DevOps practices to support business objectives and drive innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
Develop and execute cloud strategies to enhance performance, scalability, and cost optimization.
Provide architectural guidance to align cloud solutions with business goals.
Business
Collaborate with stakeholders to understand cloud requirements and deliver effective solutions.
Evaluate new cloud technologies and recommend enhancements to existing systems.
Processes*
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration and deployment. Ensure best practices in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent tools.
People & Talent
Mentor junior cloud engineers and provide technical guidance. Contribute to training initiatives and promote cloud best practices within the team.
Risk Management
Monitor cloud environments for security vulnerabilities and compliance risks. Implement automated monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system health and security.
Governance
Ensure cloud solutions adhere to internal governance policies and industry standards. Maintain cloud cost governance and optimize cloud resource utilization.
Key stakeholders

• Work closely with Cloud, DevOps, security, and software engineering teams

Skills and Experience

• AWS or Azure Cloud
• SHELL, PYTHON, NODEJS

Qualifications
A bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
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.

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