About Standard Chartered
We are a leading international bank focused on helping people and companies prosper across Asia, Africa and the Middle East. To us, good performance is about much more than turning a profit. It's about showing how you embody our valued behaviours - do the right thing, better together and never settle - as well as our brand promise, Here for good.
We're committed to promoting equality in the workplace and creating an inclusive and flexible culture - one where everyone can realise their full potential and make a positive contribution to our organisation. This in turn helps us to provide better support to our broad client base.
The Role Responsibilities
Technology Services and is responsible for providing application and Infrastructure services to all business lines within the bank namely CIB, RBPW, Data and Global Functions. The Cloud Infrastructure Services function lies within Technology Services and has six teams; Infrastructure Cloud, Container Platforms, Solutions Architecture, Risk/Security & Compliance, Project Management Office, and Business Management. The Infrastructure Cloud function is responsible for engineering, building and supporting the Global IaaS platform for Public Cloud as well as Private Cloud in the UK and Asia. Within Infrastructure Cloud there are five teams namely Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Cloud Operations, Platform Integration & Tooling, and Risk. The global team consists of approximately 60 highly skilled team members located in the US, UK, Bangalore, Malaysia, and Singapore.
There is a requirement for a Senior Level Cloud Developer within the Cloud Engineering team who will be responsible for evaluating, designing, developing, and implementing high quality engineering solutions for the bank. You'll be working within a global team on innovative technology. This is a hands-on role with an emphasis on automating all aspects of the infrastructure. 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 Cloud Platform.
Implement a state of the art platform to enable our customers to gain a faster time to market Be recognised as trusted partner for business application owners and other technology teams who seek to make use of Cloud based infrastructure Prioritise technical resources against a pre-defined roadmap and funding model Provide technical design expertise to application and delivery teams Introduce & support emerging technology and best market practices to ensure consistent and state of the art systems are built and business achieves enhanced benefits Special responsibility for:
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 Full-Stack development Software testing during deployment cycles Architectural design and continuous improvement of the platform adhering to regulator and compliance requirements Supporting adoption of containers and container control frameworks for external and internal Cloud Services, including container platform selection and design, cost and license planning and ensuring that self-service design/deployment/control web containers is appropriate for requirements Ensure lifecycle management consists of documentation such as test cases, source code repositories etc are actively used and maintained Interact with customers and/or functional peer group managers Perform other duties as assigned or required People and Talent
Lead through example 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. Set and monitor job descriptions and objectives for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performance against those responsibilities and objectives. 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's policies and procedures; and the Group Code of Conduct. Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk and compliance matters. Embed the Group's 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's form part of the culture. Our Ideal Candidate
TECHNOLOGY Required - Advanced understanding of RESTful architecture Required - Advanced understanding of developing highly available infrastructures in a cloud services environment, preferably with Amazon Web Services or other cloud providers such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform Required - Advanced understanding of multi-tier application architecture, development, deployment Required - Advanced understanding of container implementation (OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes) Required - Proficient in the following: Python or Go (Web Framework, Serverless etc) Required - Experience and expertise in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment practise, tooling, and techniques, particularly evidence of leading organisational and cultural change to adopt CI/CD practises (Jira, Confluence, BitBucket, git; Jenkins, Artifactory, Terraform, Packer, Rundeck, Ansible, AWS, ELK, AppDynamics) Required - experience with at least one type of infrastructure as code product (Terraform, Cloud Formation, Bosh) Strongly advantageous - experience and demonstrable accomplishments as a DevOps engineer Strongly advantageous - experience and demonstrable achievements in collaborative working with compliance, technology risk and regulatory requirement specialists to design requirements of control frameworks to meet these multi-disciplinary requirements, then successfully implementing solutions that meet these requirements Advantageous - extensive experience and demonstrable accomplishments in selecting, designing, and implementing automation and compliance frameworks that are applied to virtual compute resource deployments in the cloud
SERVICE AND FINANCE
Demonstrates delivering services as a business (understanding and analysing the cost based of a service, controlling a recharge and recovery model) Vendor Interaction, understand the product/technology lifecycle (end-of-life) and provide recommendation for changes/upgrades Demonstrates tactical ownership for the management and support of assigned infrastructure areas Participating in initiatives to maintain a secure, consistent, and effective global technical infrastructure service
PLANNING AND DESIGN
Demonstrates high analytical skills, is self-motivated/directed Applies standards consistently across all solutions Demonstrates senior level technical skills and ability to successfully complete and resolve complex, non-routine solution designs to address customer requirements Demonstrates strategic foresight while employing hands-on technical skills on projects and work assignments Demonstrates ability to develop, organize and analyse performance metrics in their given function Demonstrates ability to develop, communicate and educate on standard operating procedures within their given function
PERSONAL AND INTER-PERSONAL SKILLS
Delivers by possessing productivity, professionalism, customer service attitude, attention to detail and quality; ability to multitask; strong interpersonal skills, strong verbal and written communication skills, and adherence to standard operating procedures Demonstrates ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and ability to take direction from multiple areas Comfortable in an agile and fast-moving environment Developing Self & Others through Coaching, contributing to Team, continuously learning, and sharing knowledge
QUALIFICATIONS Academic or Professional Education/Qualifications: IT related tertiary qualification or equivalent experience Licences and Certifications / accreditations - Associate or Professional level of AWS/Azure/GCP Certification (SA, DevOps)
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