Job Description

The Role Responsibilities

Strategy

• 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.

Business

• Prioritize technical resources against a pre-defined roadmap and funding model.
• Provide technical design expertise to application and delivery teams.
• Introduce and support emerging technology and best market practices to ensure consistent and state of the art systems are built, and business achieves enhanced benefits.

Processes

• 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 infrastructure 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

• Mentor Sub Ordinates and Junior Staff, to fulfil the skills gap.

Risk Management

• Ensure risks if any are well manged and mitigated.

Governance

• Adherence to all governance controls and policies.

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group\xe2\x80\x99s 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 the India TTO Enterprise Technology to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank\xe2\x80\x99s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment].
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Solution Architects
• Cloud Engineering
• Cloud SRE
• CIO Teams

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values in India TTO Enterprise Technology

Our Ideal Candidate

• 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 using Azure DevOps.

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.

• Must in proficient in critical Azure Service including but not limited to (Azure DNS, Azure LAWS, Azure Monitor, Azure Key Vault, Azure Virtual Machines, VMSS, Load Balancer, etc).
• Required - Advanced understanding of developing highly available infrastructures in a cloud services environment, preferably with Microsoft Azure.
• Required - experience with at least one type of infrastructure as code product (Terraform, ARM Templates).
• Required - Advanced understanding of multi-tier application architecture, development and deployment.
• Required - Advanced understanding of container implementation (OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes).
• Must be proficient in deploying infrastructure using terraform onto Azure Platform.
• Required - experience and demonstrable accomplishments as a DevOps Engineer.
• Required - Proficient in the following: Shell or Python or Go.
• Must be proficient in core cloud security concepts.
• Must be proficient in developing with HCL.

Technical Certifications on Cloud and Terraform will be an added advantage.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• 5 Years of experience in Design, Implement, Manage, Azure Cloud Platform
• 5 Years of experience in managing and maintaining critical Azure Services
• VM, VMSS, Key Vault, Storage Account, Azure Monitor, Log Analytics Workspace, Private DNS Resolver, Load Balancer, PostgreSQL, Azure Firewall, Databricks, Private link, etc
• 3 years of experience in developing Azure terraform modules
• 3 years hand\xe2\x80\x99s on of experience on working in CI / CD toolsets and experience migrating to Azure DevOps
• 3 years of experience with Source Code management like git
• Hands-on experience in coding/scripting - Go, Python, PowerShell, Shell
• Basic understanding of container technologies

\xc2\xadAbout 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 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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