DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

The SRE Manager is ultimately responsible for system reliability, developer productivity and reducing time to market by striving to reduce technical debt of the services our team supports. We are seeking experienced SRE practitioners who are passionate about system reliability to influence and drive the strategic SRE mission.

Key Responsibilities

• Enhance application and infrastructure resiliency of service through self-healing and automated failovers.
• Oversee the planned / unplanned disruption of production infrastructure to ensure accountability for building resilient, always-on systems.
• Build resilience into the application so underlying system failures are handled gracefully and do not impact end users. Influence design/development teams to always be thinking of the rainy-day scenarios.
• Identify opportunities to eliminate all manual and repeatable activities (toil) via tooling and automation.
• Reduce the number of repeat incidents by permanently fixing the underlying root cause of issues.
• Develop automated predictive analysis of future capacity needs and drive the proactive upgrade of service capacity well in advance.
• Take responsibility for meeting SLA / XLA expectations around the operability and reliability of our critical user service journeys, where our customers expect a 24x7 digital service offering. Examples of “always on” techniques to be used include caching, circuit breakers, dark and canary releases, store and service patterns and alternate user experience flows.
• Drive conversation around development velocity using SLIs / SLOs data to ensure development velocity vs. service reliability is optimized in partnership with Product Teams.
• Iteratively review SLI / SLO / Error Budget policy to ensure the quantitative indicators of customer experience are accurate.
• Where an increased focus on reliability is required influence senior stakeholders to ensure resourcing / effort is made available
  
  

General

Skills and Experience

• Relevant degree in Computer Science / Technology and evidence of continuous professional development in an IT role.
• More than 8 years of overall IT experience in application development, production support, DevOps.
• RedHat certifications preferred.
  
  

Experience In Several Of The Following Is Expected

• Infrastructure-as-code: Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Terraform.
• Container orchestration: OpenShift, Kubernetes.
• Batch management: Control M, Autosys.
• Monitoring: ITRS, Grafana, ELK, Prometheus.
• Microservices: Kong, Istio, Jersey.
• DB: Redis, Cassandra, Hazelcast, Postgres.
• DevOps: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GIT, Maven, Docker, Rundeck.
• Messaging: Kafka, Active MQ, iMFT, FileID.
• Programming: Python, Perl, Power shell, Bash, Java / J2EE, Angular JS, Spring & Microservices.
  
  

Others

• Excellent communicator with strong command in English.
• Expressive, creative and ability to think out-of-box.
• Enthusiastic problem solver with exceptional analytical skill.
• Strong team player but able to complete tasks independently with minimal guidance.
• Never settle mindset, always challenge the status quo.
• High learning aptitude, able to learn new products and technology very quickly.
  
  

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