Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

• Technology powers Standard Chartered Bank\'s vision and strategic agenda through the provision of innovative and efficient technology solutions; we will deliver greater value to our business stakeholders, we will improve the skills and flexibility of our people and work more effectively with our internal and vendor service partners.
• Enterprise Technology (ET) is responsible for providing application and Infrastructure services to all business lines within the bank namely CCIB, CPBB, Data and Global Functions. The Cloud function lies within ET and is responsible for engineering, building and supporting the Global IaaS and PaaS platforms for Public Cloud as well as Private Cloud in Standard Chartered footprints across the globe. The global team spans across the UK, India, Malaysia, China and Singapore.
• We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer who will be responsible for managing and developing teams, as well as deep hands-on experience with IaaS and PaaS with an emphasis on coding and automating all aspects of the infrastructure. This includes evaluating, designing, developing, and implementing high quality engineering solutions for the bank. Candidate will be working within a global team on innovative technology.
• 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 Multi-Cloud Platform. You love to Build, Test, Deploy and Manage things with new Technologies in the Cloud. We eat, breathe and sleep Agile methodologies and best DevSecOps Practices!

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Implement a state-of-the-art AWS 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.
• Prioritize 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.
• Master effective communication and act as the interface between Customers and Development Teams.
• Interact with customers and/or functional peer group managers.
• Perform other duties as assigned or required.

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 adopted and maintained.

People and Talent

• Be a role model 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.
• Work with internal business teams, cross-functional engineering teams, and external vendors.
• Effective conflict resolver and strong leadership skills to deliver on commitments and knowing when to say No to stakeholders.
• Set and monitor job descriptions and performance goals for direct reports and provide feedback and rewards in line with their performances.

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.

Key Stakeholders

• Engineering Teams, Product Owners, CIOs, Regulators

Other Responsibilities

• Continuously provide feedback to improve our strategy, people, and processes.

Our Ideal Candidate

• 5+ years of experience with AWS, and its security services
• 3+ years of experience with security tools and analytics using cloud trail, splunk, security lake, data bricks etc.
• 3+ years of experience in programming using golang, rust, python
• Solid experience in writing security policies, infrastructure as code using Terraform, golang etc.
• Well versed with SDLC, CI/CD, using git
• Preferably a Bachelor or master\'s degree, or the equivalent experience and have experience in design & engineering in the Finance Industry.
• Professional Cloud Certification in AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Would love to be in a high performing team and enjoy working with smart colleagues. We are open to new ideas and embrace collaboration and sharing in our Kanban/Scrum teams. Most of our days consist of Daily\'s, Sprint planning, Retrospections and most importantly to Getting Things Done.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• AWS, and its security services
• Security tools and analytics using cloud trail, splunk, security lake, data bricks etc.
• Programming using golang, rust, python
• Writing security policies, infrastructure as code using Terraform, golang etc.
• SDLC, CI/CD, using git
• Drive and be accountable for technical delivery and work with your team on strategy and execution.
• Experience with a Testing framework and writing your own Unit and System tests.
• A commitment to DevSecOps best practices.
• A solid understanding designing solutions and troubleshooting Internet Technologies and protocols such as TCP/IP, HTTPS, DNS, etc.

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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