JOB SUMMARY

• Cloud Engineer with 3-8 years of experience in cloud and on-prem infrastructure management. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Kafka, Hazelcast, ELK, and Prometheus while maintaining and managing infrastructure across both cloud and on-prem environments. A strong understanding of networking, Linux, and automation is required.

Infrastructure Automation & Management:

• Provision and manage cloud and on-prem VMs using Terraform.
• Automate installation and configuration of Kafka, Hazelcast, and ELK using Ansible.
• Maintain containerized applications using Kubernetes.

Monitoring & Observability:

• Set up and maintain Prometheus and ELK for monitoring and alerting.
• Implement logging and performance monitoring solutions.
• Cloud & On-Prem Infrastructure Management:
• Support hybrid cloud environments (AWS/Azure/OpenShift) and on-prem Kubernetes clusters.
• Troubleshoot infrastructure issues, ensuring high availability and scalability.

Security & Compliance:

• Ensure infrastructure meets security best practices and compliance requirements.
• Manage IAM roles, encryption keys, and network security in cloud environments

 RESPONSIBILITIES

Processes

• Interacting with the technical team to ensure that the requirements are clear and well understood.
• Work with the delivery / implementation teams to provide domain inputs and to ensure delivery and implementation of the proposed solution into Solution Design and Implementation methodologies.
• Ability to work in Waterfall, Iterative or Agile methodology of SDLC,
• Ensure adherence to standardized cloud and infra structure deployment processes, optimizing automation, security and scalability. 
• Locate and define new process improvement opportunities.

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.

Key Stakeholders

• Central Cloud Support team
• Central Cloud Engineering team
• Central Observability Platform team

Qualification

• Education     BE / MCA / MSC in Computer Science     
• Certifications     AWS Solutions Architect, CKAD/CKA, or Azure certifications preferred

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• AWS / Azure Services
• Kubernetees
• Scripting languages – Python/Shell
• Kafka, Hazelcat, Elastic Search, CI/CD – Jenkins / Azure ADO
• Ansible, Terraform, 

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.