Job Description

Job Summary
As a Platform Engineer you'd be able to work on and solve some of the many interesting challenges we are facing in Cloud deployment, automation and data management, learn new ways of working, and build delightful high-quality products for our customers.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy

• Knowledge of technology best practices for building a modern automated DevOps platform

Business

• Build and manage a modern, automated, cloud-native, continuous delivery pipeline.
• Build and manage resources across on-prem and cloud for our business to use.
• Understand and provide the security, compliance, regulation of banking systems.

Processes

• Good understanding of technologies and experience in building a highly scalable and fault tolerant system

People & Talent

• Self-starter, capable of working without direction and able to deliver projects from scratch
• Proficiency in the development (Java/Groovy/Kotlin, spring boot) and Strong scripting skills.
• DevOps toolchain experience (ADO, Gradle/Maven, Artifactory)
• Infrastructure as Code tools (Puppet/Ansible/Chef, Helm)
• Cloud computing deployment and management experience (AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure) via (Terraform(preferred)/CloudFormation/Pulumi)
• Container management and container orchestration experience - Docker, Kubernetes.
• Monitoring tools Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Strong knowledge of Linux/UNIX and TCP/IP Subnet.
• Strong understanding and practice Agile/Lean projects SCRUM, KANBAN etc.
• Practical knowledge with Git flow, Trunk and GitHub flow branching strategies.
• Strong English communication skills
• Distributed system knowledge applicable to a microservice architecture
• Breadth of knowledge - operating systems, networking, distributed computing, cloud computing

Risk Management

• Ensures area integrity, minimizes technical debt.

Governance

• Sets architectural direction for the area, performs code review for significant changes in the area & responsible for system governance activities.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's 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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Work with the team and other bank teams to ensure area integrity, system improvement and minimize technical debt.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in Messaging Platform; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats);

Skills and Experience

• Linux
• Programming Language
• Docker/Kubernetes/Cloud
• CICD tools ex: Gradle/Ansible/Helm
• Observability Tools ex: Elastic/Prometheus/Grafana
• Spring boot
• Scrum/Kanban

Qualifications

• Education Bachelor Of Engg Or Equivalent
• Training DOCKER/KUBERNETES/CLOUD/PODMAN

Competencies
Action Oriented
Collaborates
Customer Focus
Gives Clarity & Guidance
Manages Ambiguity
Develops Talent
Drives Vision & Purpose
Nimble Learning
Decision Quality
Courage
Instills Trust
Strategic Mindset
Technical Competencies: This is a generic competency to evaluate candidate on role-specific technical skills and requirements
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.

Recruitment Assessments
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