Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior SecOps Engineer to join our bank's cybersecurity team. This role requires expertise in Security Operations (SecOps), Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), and Machine Learning Security Operations (MLSecOps), with a focus on engineering AI-based threats, attacks, and vulnerabilities. The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication, report writing, and presentation skills to effectively articulate security reports to a wide audience within the bank. This position is critical in ensuring the bank's security posture is resilient against emerging cyber threats.
Key Responsibilities:
• Implement and manage security tools and technologies to detect and respond to security incidents.
• Monitor security events and alerts, analyze security data, and investigate potential security incidents.
• Develop and maintain security playbooks, procedures, and incident response plans.
• Conduct security assessments and audits to identify gaps and recommend improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement security best practices across the organization.
• Stay updated on the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and industry trends.
• Design and implement machine learning models for threat detection and anomaly detection.
• Develop and deploy ML-based security solutions for identifying and mitigating cyber threats.
• Engineer AI-based attacks and vulnerabilities to assess the effectiveness of security controls.
• Utilize data analytics and machine learning techniques to enhance security operations.
• Collaborate with data scientists and security analysts to improve ML models' performance.
• Monitor and fine-tune ML models to adapt to evolving cyber threats.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy
· Awareness and understanding of the TTO’25 business strategy and model appropriate to the role. Support and the enablement of the Central Monitoring & Observability strategy, goals and objectives by developing prioritized features aligned to the Catalyst and Tech Simplification programmes.
Business
· The Monitoring & Observability Platform team is a global team ensuring the design, development, delivery & support of the bank’s central monitoring and observability services for all TTO teams (technology domains).
· The ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of in one or more of the platform technologies (Elastic Observability, Grafana Observability or ITRS Geneos) and its other required capabilities, such as Kafka messaging, database management, enabling the design, development, implementation, and management of the central solution, integrating advanced technological tools and techniques, and overseeing large-scale enterprise-level implementations.
Processes
· As an Observability Engineer, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, reliability, and performance of our applications and platform, thereby enabling our organization to deliver exceptional services to our internal stakeholders by adhering to the Enterprise SDLC (eSDLC) framework and guidelines.
People & Talent
· Actively engaging in stakeholders’ conversations, providing timely, clear and actionable feedback to deliver solution within timeline.
Risk Management
· The ability to interpret the Group’s technical and security (ICS) control requirements and information to identify potential risks and key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures to mitigate or minimize risk to the central monitoring & observability platform delivery.
Governance
· Awareness and understanding of the eSDLC framework, in which the TTO software delivery operates, and the requirements and expectations relevant to the role.
· Responsible for adhering to the effectiveness of the central monitoring and observability platform deliver governance, based on oversight and controls of the eSDLC framework.
Skills and Experience
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
• TTO CIO Development teams
• TTO Product Owners
• TTO SRE / PSS
• ET Foundation Service Owners
Our Ideal Candidate
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Security, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on SecOps and MLSecOps.
• Strong understanding of security operations, incident response, and threat intelligence.
• Proficiency in implementing and managing security tools and technologies.
• Experience with machine learning algorithms and techniques.
• Knowledge of data analytics and statistical analysis.
• Excellent communication, report writing, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced and collaborative environment.
• Extensive hands-on experience in cybersecurity operations and machine learning.
• Proven track record of implementing ML-based security solutions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and methodologies.
• Leadership experience and the ability to mentor junior team members.
If you possess the required skills and are passionate about pushing the boundaries of cybersecurity, we encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. Join us in safeguarding our organization against evolving cyber threats and driving innovation in security operations.
Role Specific Technical Competencies
· IAM (RBAC, ABAC) and Secrets Management
· Threat Modeling (Manual / Automation) with Framework STRIDE, MITRE
· Penetration Testing (Cloud, Container, On-premise)
· Azure / AWS Public Cloud
· Python, Go Lang, Java / .NET
· Red, Blue & Purple Teaming
· PowerShell, Azure CLI
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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