Software Engineer/ DevOps

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Job Summary

• We're looking for a Senior DevOps Platform Engineer to join our Messaging Platform Engineering team. In this role, you'll build, support, and scale the infrastructure and tooling that powers mission-critical messaging systems such as Solace, IBM MQ, Apache Kafka, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), and Managed File Transfer (MFT).
• You'll work closely with integration specialists, software engineers, and infrastructure teams to ensure our platforms are reliable, observable, secure, and easy to operate.
• This role is ideal for an experienced software generalist with deep expertise in areas like distributed systems, infrastructure as code, networking, or cloud-native delivery.

Key Responsibilities
Strategy

• Knowledge of technology best practices for building a modern automated DevOps platform

Business

• Build and manage a modern, automated, cloud-native, continuous delivery pipeline.
• Build and manage resources across on-prem and cloud for our business to use.
• Understand and provide the security, compliance, regulation of banking systems.

Processes

• Good understanding of technologies and experience in building a highly scalable and fault tolerant system

People & Talent

• Build and maintain the infrastructure and automation for deploying and managing messaging systems like Solace, Kafka, MQ, ESB, and MFT.
• Design and implement release strategies such as blue-green deployments, canary rollouts, and progressive delivery for messaging components.
• Develop and manage CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application delivery using tools like Azure Devops, etc.
• Deploy, scale, and monitor services in Kubernetes, OpenShift, and AWS EKS, using Helm and Terraform.
• Implement observability tooling including metrics, logs, traces, and health dashboards using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and OpenTelemetry.
• Collaborate with SRE teams to reduce operational toil, automate runbooks, and improve incident response tooling.
• Apply strong understanding of distributed systems principles to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Configure and troubleshoot networking components, including DNS, load balancers.
• Use Ansible and other automation tools for configuration and provisioning across environments.
• Advocate and enforce best practices in cloud engineering, security, and operational excellence.

Risk Management

• Ensures area integrity, minimizes technical debt.

Governance

• Sets architectural direction for the area, performs code review for significant changes in the area & responsible for system governance activities.

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.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key stakeholders

• Work with the team and other bank teams to ensure area integrity, system improvement and minimize technical debt.

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group's brand and values in Messaging Platform; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats);

Qualifications

• Education-Bachelor of engg or equivalent
• Training-Docker/kubernetes/cloud/podman

Skills And Experience

• Linux
• Programming Language
• Docker/Kubernetes/Cloud
• CICD tools ex: Gradle/Ansible/Helm
• Observability Tools ex: Elastic/Prometheus/Grafana
• Spring boot
• Scrum/Kanban

Key Requirements

• Minimum 8+ years of experience in Technology
• We are looking for a versatile engineer with strong software development, DevOps skills to join our platform team. You will help build and automate reliable, scalable systems and developer tooling across cloud-native environments.
• Proficient in Java (Spring Boot preferred) or any mainstream programming language.
• Strong understanding of software engineering best practices, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Hands-on experience with Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Familiar with AWS cloud, Linux systems, and scripting (e.g., Bash, Python).
• Knowledge of observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
• Experience in WebMethods, integration and middleware technologies: API gateways, Enterprise Service Bus, Solace, MQ, Managed File Transfer, or iPaaS.

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.