Job Summary

The DevOps Specialist works with application developers to automate and accelerate the testing, release and deployment of applications into a runtime environment quickly and reliably. The DevOps Specialist 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 a cloud environment and have experience with the core suite of tools used to manage different cloud providers. The DevOps Specialist 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

• Environment management – Dev/UAT/SIT – ensuring system up/running/green state.
• Release management.
• Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD pipeline).
• Ansible scripts.
• System monitoring: alerts/setup.
• Infrastructure management/VM resource management/optimization.

Skills and Experience

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of software development, engineering or DevOps experience.
• Experience in setting up CICD pipelines with industry standard CICD tools like ADO, Jenkins.
• Experience in setting up and configuring real time monitoring and reporting/alerting tools like Prometheus/Grafana, ELK etc.
• Ansible scripting, Shell scripts in Linux/Unix environment.
• Containerization- Building container images as shippable artifacts. Experience in building container deployment strategy. Familiar with orchestration tools like Kubernetes, docker swarm, Nomad etc.
• 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.

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.