Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Job Role

We are looking for a Infrastructure / Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for managing and developing teams, as well as deep hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS with an emphasis on coding and automating all aspects of the infrastructure.

This includes evaluating, designing, developing and implementing high quality engineering solutions for the bank. You\'ll be working within a global team on innovative technology.

We are looking for a result oriented, self-starter who can dive deep into core engineering solutions and think innovatively, but in a pragmatic way to engineer a highly available Multi-Cloud Platform. You love to Build, Test, Deploy and Manage things with new Technologies in the Cloud. We eat, breathe and sleep Agile methodologies and best DevSecOps Practices!

Key Responsibilities

• Develop libraries and scripts to automate datacentre activities in private cloud.
• Create services, frameworks and templates leading to spin up and turning down virtual environments.
• Software testing during deployment cycles.
• Implement a state-of-the-art Infrastructure (i.e. Private cloud) platform to enable our customers to gain a faster time to market.
• Provide technical design expertise to application and delivery teams.
• Introduce and support emerging technology and best market practices to ensure consistent and state of the art systems are built, and business achieves enhanced benefits.
• Ensuring that platform conforms to Standard Chartered security best practises and is fully consistent with Bank audit and compliance requirements and fully consistent with the design ethos and technical requirements of external cloud providers.
• Architectural design and continuous improvement of the platform adhering to regulator and compliance requirements.
• Ensure lifecycle management consists of documentation such as test cases, source code repositories etc are adopted and maintained.

Strategy

• Towards delivering and living out our TTO Strategy 25 by

• Establish Strong Digital Foundations
• Accelerate Transformation
• Drive Process Excellence

Business

• Contribute to the strategic goals of the organisation through the application of technology.
• Solve problems through the application of technical knowledge and skill, determining when and how technology can solve business problems.
• Scope and create technical solutions that contribute to the business\xe2\x80\x99s strategic goals

Processes

• Identify new areas of focus and activity for both internal and external technology communities.
• Develop and roll out best practice in Technology domain of expertise or their specialism.
• Rescue, remediate or provide expertise on initiatives with significant technology challenges.

People and Talent

Be a role model and build the appropriate culture and values. Set appropriate tone and expectations from their team and work in collaboration with risk and control partners.

• Ensure the provision of ongoing training and development of people and ensure that holders of all critical functions are suitably skilled and qualified for their roles ensuring that they have effective supervision in place to mitigate any risks.
• Employ, engage and retain high quality people.
• Work with internal business teams, cross-functional engineering teams, and external vendors.
• Effective conflict resolver and strong leadership skills to deliver on commitments and knowing when to say No to stakeholders.
• Set and monitor job descriptions and performance goals for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performances.

Risk Management

• Make recommendations (and / or implement) to relevant stakeholders on possible risk management responses to identified risks and / or findings of concerns from investigation.
• Manage escalations on PEP / Sensitive issues requiring additional assessment and / or controls.

Governance

• Take personal responsibility for understanding the risk and compliance requirements of the role.
• 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\xe2\x80\x99s policies and procedures; and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters.
• Embed the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99s form part of the culture.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 team to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s 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.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association.

Our Ideal Candidate

• Bachelor degree with 8 - 12 years of experience.
• Experience using code repositories and DevOps Pipelines.
• Experience in implementing blue / green deployment strategies.
• Experience with Cloud-based infrastructure systems (AWS / Azure).
• Experience and hands-on working on automating Database provisioning.
• Experience in setting up monitoring and logging frameworks.
• Prefer strong coding skills in Python / NodeJs / Java and Terraform / Powershell / Ansible.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution
• Internet Technologies and protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTPS, DNS, etc
• Testing framework and writing your own Unit and System tests
• CI / CD pipelines and tools
• Python, PowerShell
• Terraform and Git
• Azure Landing Zone
• DevSecOps
• Azure

\xc2\xadAbout Standard Chartered

We\'re an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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
• Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental / maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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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