Job Summary
• The Cloud Engineer role exists to design, implement, and operate scalable, secure, and highly available cloud solutions across multi-cloud environments.
• Deliver resilient cloud architectures across AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud that support application scalability, security, availability, and performance.
• Accelerate engineering delivery through DevOps practices, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, container platforms, and reliable release tooling.
• Improve production stability through observability, troubleshooting, performance optimisation, cost transparency, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Key Responsibilities
Cloud architecture and implementation
• Design and implement scalable, secure and highly available cloud solutions across AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud.
• Build resilient cloud architectures that support performance, availability and future growth requirements.
DevOps, automation and platform engineering
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, ArgoCD and Azure DevOps.
• Implement infrastructure as code using Terraform and Ansible to standardise provisioning and configuration.
• Manage containerised workloads using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.
Reliability, observability and optimisation
• Implement monitoring and logging using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Promtail.
• Troubleshoot production issues and optimise cloud environments for cost, performance and operational stability.
Collaboration and capability building
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver cloud solutions aligned to engineering, risk and operational needs.
Skills and Experience
Must-have Skills
• Multi-cloud architecture: AWS, Azure and Oracle Cloud
• Container platforms: Docker, Kubernetes and Helm
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform and Ansible
Other Skills
• CI/CD engineering: Jenkins, ArgoCD and Azure DevOps
• Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and Promtail
• Production troubleshooting, performance and cost optimisation
• Cloud governance in banking or regulated environments
Motivations
• Motivations explain what energises someone to consistently do their best work over time. Describe the environments, outcomes or types of problems that will drive sustained effort, resilience and impact.
• Solving complex cloud engineering problems that improve resilience, scalability and security for critical applications.
• Automating repeatable engineering work through modern DevOps, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Working in collaborative, regulated technology environments where production stability, cost efficiency and continuous improvement matter.
Qualifications
Key Experiences
• 8-12 years total experience, including a minimum of 5 years relevant cloud experience; hands-on delivery across cloud architecture, DevOps, infrastructure automation, container platforms, observability and production support.
Certifications / Qualifications
• AWS and/or Azure certifications desirable
Languages
• English proficiency suitable for technical documentation, stakeholder collaboration and production support communications.
About Standard Chartered
We're a global bank connecting clients to our differentiated network, offering growth opportunities in the world's most dynamic markets. Our strategy, which combines cross-border capabilities and leading wealth management expertise, helps us deliver our purpose - to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity.
Over our 170-year history, and across a unique geographical footprint connecting Asia, Africa and the Middle East to each other and the world, we've built a bank like no other, with diverse capabilities and partnerships that set us apart.
What We Offer
- Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions, and geographies.
- 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 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.
Visit our careers website to learn more about us: www.sc.com/careers.
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