Job Description

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the design for new solutions requested by CCIB client
• Provides consultancy and advisory services to the business, systems development and technology production services for system integration, product evaluation, projects, new business engagements (i.e. acquisitions, integrations, new premises, major projects)
• Acts as a \xe2\x80\x9cRelationship Manager\xe2\x80\x9d to an Applications and Solutions Delivery business line for all Infrastructure Solution Design requests.
• Delivers high quality infrastructure engineering solutions for the bank across all platform requirements.
• Value - add to various technology streams by timely and proper engagement and recommending appropriate solutions.
• Platform and system capacity & performance related risks are identified, communicated, escalated and acted upon.
• Effectively understand the way how we consume on-prem infrastructure and at the same time explore every avenue to migrate to cloud.
• Strong knowledge of various AWS Resources (primarily EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, Subnets, NAT, RDS, KMS, IAM) and understand how the design is different from on-prem and accordingly educate users with Public Cloud First strategy.
• Strong experience in providing solution using virtual environment and be the advocate to not allow any anti-pattern (e.g using physical servers) but the at the same time meeting user expectations.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills to articulate Infra Solution Design to various forums as required.
• Strong hands-on experience to promote the idea of Design and Build instead of the traditional approach of just Design as the primary scope for Architect.
• Interact with application team to understand the various software requirements and ensure alignment with tech standards.
• Develop methodology for Right Sizing and ensure infrastructure is not over/under provisioned.
• Perform regular capacity review to the applications that overspend on Cloud and provide recommendations to optimize the Infra resources.
• Thorough understanding to deep dive into a system to analyze performance and to understand the performance bottlenecks.
• Full understanding of various monitoring tools and be able to create custom dashboard.
• Work with Solution architect to understand various AWS resources requirement for the application
• Engage with vendors and architects to determine strategic direction and align implementations accordingly.
• Establish best engineering practices through solid design decisions, processes, and tools.
• Provide expert advice to development and support teams to create robust production topology that are highly available, scalable and can cope with burst demand.
• Champion Agile best-practices, processes, and tools in support of DevOps processes.

Technical Competencies

• Required \xe2\x80\x93 expertise with:
• Automation - Shell scripting, Python, Perl, Ansible
• Operating System - Linux Administration & Troubleshooting
• Messaging \xe2\x80\x93 IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, Kafka
• Application Server \xe2\x80\x93 IBM WAS, Jboss AS, Tomcat
• Database \xe2\x80\x93 Oracle, PostGres, MongoDB, Cassandra
• Container technology \xe2\x80\x93 Docker / Podman
• Container Orchestration \xe2\x80\x93 RedHat OpenShift / Kubernetes
• Monitoring Tools \xe2\x80\x93 ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Fluentd, Grafana, Metric beat, File Beat
• Collaboration Tools \xe2\x80\x93 Confluence, JIRA
• CI/CD \xe2\x80\x93 Jenkins, GIT, bitbucket
• Strongly advantageous to attain Certifications on the above skillsets
• Required \xe2\x80\x93 experience and expertise in Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment practice, tooling and techniques (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, git; Jenkins, Artifactory, Ansible)
• Required \xe2\x80\x93 experience with at least one of data analytics tools such as Splunk and/or ELK.
• Required \xe2\x80\x93 Ability to write code. Ideally in Python or Perl or bash.
• Strongly advantageous \xe2\x80\x93 experience and demonstrable accomplishments as a DevOps or automation engineer.
• Strongly advantageous \xe2\x80\x93 experience of successful and demonstrable achievements in collaborative working with compliance, technology risk and regulatory requirement specialists.
• Advantageous \xe2\x80\x93 deep experience in multi-tier application architecture, development, deployment and support.

Service and Finance

• Demonstrates delivering services as a business (understanding and analyzing the cost base of a service, controlling a recharge and recovery model)
• Experience in Quotation of Infra Solutions, differentiating CAPEX and OPEX concepts and evaluating different options to find the most cost-effective solution.
• Vendor interaction, understand the product/technology lifecycle (end-of-life) and provide recommendation for changes/upgrades.

Personal and Interpersonal Skills

• Delivers by possessing productivity, professionalism, customer service attitude, attention to detail and quality; ability to multitask; strong interpersonal skills, strong verbal and written communication skills and adherence to standard operating procedures.
• Demonstrates ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment and ability to take direction from multiple areas.
• Comfortable in an agile and fast-moving environment.
• Developing Self & Others through Coaching, Contributing to Team, continuously learning and sharing knowledge.

Regulatory & 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 [country / business unit / function [team] 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.
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Other Responsibilities

• Embed Here for good and Group\xe2\x80\x99s brand and values in [country / business unit / team]; Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures; Multiple functions (double hats); [List all responsibilities associated with the role]

ROLE SPECIFIC TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES AND PROFICIENCY LEVELS

• Project Management
• Infrastructure Design
• Unix
• Middleware & Messaging
• Capacity Management
• Infrastructure Cost Optimisation
• Container & Microservice
• JIRA Workflow & confluence

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 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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