Job Summary

A technical, hands-on DevOps engineer is required for SCB Financial Markets working in the eTrading team supporting the bank’s FX trading business. 
This is a multi-disciplinary role, spanning BAU and project work, from a technical and process perspective. Your primary focus will be to support existing toolset and to bring in timely enhancements to the framework.
You will work closely with the development, QA and production support teams to manage and continuously improve all aspects of the release/delivery process. 
With a focus on automation and self-service you will identify areas of improvement and drive solutions through to implementation, across continuous integration, deployment, monitoring and release. 
Candidate will be responsible in owning/managing test environments. Work closely with QA/Dev/integration testing teams to ensure that deliveries are not impacted.
There is a heavy emphasis on transitioning to agile processes / increasing cloud footprint in 2023 along with a higher tempo of deployments as the applications are broken down into smaller components.

Key Responsibilities

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.
•    Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
 

Qualifications

Bachelor’s in engineering or Higher

Skills and Experience

Must-haves
•    Strong Scripting knowledge – Linux (bash), python, groovy
•    DevOps Tooling exposure – Jenkins, JIRA, CICD pipelines, Artifactory, Nexus etc
•    Containerization tools – Kubernetes, Podman, Openshift K8s
•    Cloud – AWS/Azure
•    Configuration Management – ansible, puppet
•    Knowledge on Oracle Database management
•    Environment management exposure
•    Source Control tools – GIT/SVN etc
•    Infra management/planning

Nice-to-haves
•    Release Management approach/tools
•    General Enterprise Technical Aptitude: networks, servers, load balancing, storage, etc
•    Financial Domain knowledge
Soft skills:
•    Confident and articulate communicator, a self-starter
•    Able to problem-solve at a deep level; determine the root cause of issues and design, plan, and deliver long-term strategic solutions

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.