Sr. Assoc, Cloud Eng, WRB Tech

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.