Job Summary

The DevOps Engineer works with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing,
release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably. The DevOps
Engineer will have a background in deployment, operations, and full-stack implementations. They will also
have experience programming in a high-level language such as Ruby, Ansible, Python, Java or other language to script installation, configuration, and provisioning. They will be providing continuous delivery solutions in 
cloud environment and have experience with the core suite of tools used to manage different cloud providers.
The DevOps Engineer will establish and employ Continuous Integration practices and tools such as Jenkins.
or other CI tools. They employ industry Continuous Delivery patterns and collaboratively work with other members to achieve successful continuous delivery solutions.

Key Responsibilities

•    Bachelor’s degree in computer science, systems analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience
•    6 + years of experience spanning at least two IT disciplines, including technical architecture, application.
•    development, or operations
•    Working knowledge of enterprise data center technologies including storage platforms, network switching, and security infrastructure within a virtualized data center
•    Experience in building end to end CI/CD pipelines.
•    Experience in building/configuring monitoring tools using Grafana/ITRS/...
•    Experience in Ansible/Linux/Python scripting.
•    Experience in Release Management
•    Experience in using orchestration tools.
•    Experience in Release Management
•    Experience in Containerization
•    Strong understanding of application development methodologies
•    Experience optimizing applications, both stand-alone and in distributed systems to maximize performance.
•    Experience maintaining an infrastructure and ensuring stability while adding new features.
•    Ability to use a wide variety of open-source technologies and tools.
•    Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment.
•    Possess a strong grasp of automation tools.
•    Comfort with collaboration, open communication and reaching across functional borders.

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.
•    Serve as a Director of the Board 
•    Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association

Skills and Experience

The successful candidate is expected to be an experienced DevOps Engineer with wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

•    Technical knowledge in DBs like Mongo, Postgres.
•    Shell scripts in Linux/Unix environment
•    Strong knowledge and practical experience in modern DevOps - CI/CD, Containerization, Orchestration
•    Experienced in Agile/Scrum-Kanban and related tools – JIRA, Confluence
•    Hands-On expertise in CICD integration tools like ADO Pipelines, Sonarqube, Artifactory, Nexus, etc.
•    Knowledge on test integration & automation tools.
•    One of the config & IaaC management tools like Ansible, Puppet, etc.
•    Hands-On knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes or equivalent are plus
•    Superior trouble shooting and analytical thinking skill
•    Must have knowledge on networking, linux systems and modern application architecture
•    Knowledge on real time monitoring & reporting tools like Datadog, Newrelic, Appdynamic, ELK

Other desired skills / knowledge:
•    Data-analysis / machine learning concepts
•    Some very basic knowledge of UI ( Angular/ React, HTML5, OpenFin ) and / or Java API designs
•    Python programming

Soft skills:
•    Fluent in English (speaking and writing)
•    Outstanding problem-solving skills
•    Proactive, self-starter, motivated, multi-tasking, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills, solution oriented with proven results
•    Good team spirit
•    Extreme curiousness 

Role Specific Technical Competencies

•    CI / CD
•    Experience in setting up CICD pipelines with industry standard CICD tools like ADO, Jenkins, Git, Artifactory/Nexus, Spinnaker etc
•    IAAC
•    Experience in automating infrastructure provisioning and application deployment using tools/scripts like Ansible, Terraform, python, shell scripting, CloudFormation etc
•    Infrastructure / Application Monitoring
•    Experience in setting up and configuring real time monitoring and reporting/alerting tools like Prometheus/Grafana, ELK etc
•    Containerization
•    Building container images as shippable artifacts. Experience in building container deployment strategy. Familiar with orchestration tools like Kubernetes, docker swarm, Nomad etc
•    Cloud Technology
•    Experience in designing and building application deployment solution in Cloud like AWS, Azure, GCP etc
•    Configuration Management
•    Good understanding on CM and establish and maintain consistency of performance, functional, and physical attributes of application and infrastructure. Experience with tools like Ansible is required.

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.