The Role Responsibilities
The Engineering Excellence & DevOps team sitting in Technology Strategy & Architecture organization are seeking a SRE engineer with 4 or more years of experience to be an DevOps SRE Engineer, Automation and TOIL reduction and monitoring.
Strategy
· Understand the bank’s DevOps strategy and implementing automation solutions to improve the bank’s software delivery pipeline.
Business
· This role requires broad engagement with application delivery teams across the bank, helping them adopt DevOps pipeline solutions to improve delivery efficiency and maturity.
Processes
· Understand the bank’s software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank’s compliance and security requirement.
People & Talent
· Work collaboratively with a team of diverse engineers in sprint delivery.
· Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support.
· Conduct briefing and/or training sessions to application delivery teams to help them get onboarded and accelerate adoption.
Risk Management
· Understand bank’s risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.
Governance
· Understand bank’s software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.
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
· SRE Lead
· Head of Solution Delivery
· Delivery leads
Our Ideal Candidate
We expect our team members to be better than the skilled in SRE tasks, recognised and trusted partner for business application owners and other technology teams who seek to make use of DevOps tooling and managing infrastructure.
· 4+ years’ experience in DevOps SRE and from Banking industry will be an advantage
· Automation and TOIL reduction
· ensuring that all relevant platforms are being efficiently and appropriately supported in SCB Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) toolchains, including identifying opportunities for toolchain and operational practise improvement and refinement, and ensuring that ‘infrastructure as code’ deployment mechanisms are common and portable across Cloud and non-Cloud environments
· Cloud platform estate management including license / support subscription oversight, control and best utilization, automation of estate reporting and management, including close collaboration with other Platforms and ITIL Team team/product leads to ensure that Cloud Support needs are covered in line with Bank strategy and policy
· Operational design, maintenance and continuous improvement of event and audit logging frameworks and systems for cloud environments
· Supporting adoption of containers and container control frameworks
· Incident Management for issues related to Cloud Services, acting as senior escalation and control point for Cloud Support (and wider Platforms Teams) and driving service restoration and stability during significant incident
The soft skills we are looking for include:
· Eagerness to learn – curious, self-learning, then applying
· Problem Solving Skills – Creativity, resourcefulness, lateral thinking.
· Positive Attitude – passion for the task and achieving a solution
· Communication Skills – explain, influence, listen, document thinking
· Independence - Ability to work and deliver unsupervised, a self-starter
· Discipline - to chase down solutions to resolution, to deliver quality
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· Experience in AWS & Azure architecture, design and implementation
· Hands-on experience in python. Proficient in additional cloud tools helm. EKS, AKS, Dashboards, Monitoring
· Hands-on in CICD DevOps tools ADO, Artifactory, Sonarqube
· Experience Cloud security, best practices
· Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is desirable
About 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 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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