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You will contribute to the develop the bank’s central monitoring and observability platform and tooling to enable product owners, developers, and operators to efficiently trace performance problems to their source and map their application performance to business objectives. You will contribute to the backend cloud services development of the central observability platform for the applications / Infrastructure including Platform, Database, Integration, Reliability, and Cloud Operations teams, as well as product owner and developer / engineering teams.\nKey Responsibilities\nStrategy\nAwareness and understanding of the FFG business strategy and model appropriate to the role. Support and the enablement of the Central Monitoring & Observability strategy, goals and objectives by developing prioritized features aligned to the Catalyst and Tech Simplification programmes.\nBusiness\nThe Monitoring & Observability Platform team is a global team ensuring the design, development, delivery & support of the bank’s central monitoring and observability services for all TTO teams (technology domains).\nThe ideal candidate will possess a deep understanding of in one or more of the integration technologies (Elastic Observability, Grafana Observability or Geneos) and its other required capabilities, such as Kafka messaging, database management, enabling the design, development, implementation, and management of the central solution, integrating advanced technological tools and techniques, and overseeing large-scale enterprise-level implementations.\nProcesses\nAs the Engineer, Central Platform Development, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, reliability, and performance of our applications and platform integrations, thereby enabling our organization to deliver exceptional services to our internal stakeholders by adhering to the Enterprise SDLC (eSDLC) framework and guidelines.\nPeople & Talent\nActively engaging in stakeholders’ conversations, providing timely, clear and actionable feedback to deliver solution within timeline.\nRisk Management\nThe ability to interpret the Group’s technical and security (ICS) control requirements and information to identify potential risks and key issues based on this information and put in place appropriate controls and measures to mitigate or minimize risk to the central monitoring & observability platform delivery.\nGovernance\nAwareness and understanding of the eSDLC framework, in which the TTO software delivery operates, and the requirements and expectations relevant to the role.\nResponsible for adhering to the effectiveness of the central monitoring and observability platform deliver governance, based on oversight and controls of the eSDLC framework.\nRegulatory & Business Conduct\nDisplay exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.\nTake 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.\nEffectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.\nKey stakeholders\nTTO CIO Development teams\nTTO Product Owners\nTTO SRE / PSS\nTTO Cloud Engineering\nET Foundation Service Owners\nOther Responsibilities\nEmbed Here for good and Group’s brand and values in the Observability Platform 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]\nParticipate in solution architecture / design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning activities\nCreate sustainable solutions and services through automation and service uplifts within monitoring and observability disciplines\nSkills and Experience\nAgile Delivery\nApplication Delivery Process\nSoftware Engineering\nSoftware Product Technical Knowledge\nSoftware Quality Assurance\nApplication Programming\nApplication Integration\nQualifications\nOur ideal candidate should have overall minimum of 8+ years of IT experience\nBachelor’s degree in computer science or information systems or equivalent applicable experience\nSoftware development domain and principles, including design patterns, code structure, programming languages, continuous integration (Git/SVN), continuous deployment (Azure Pipelines), and deployment orchestration (Chef, puppet, or equivalent)\nExcellent programming skills using in one of the key languages Python and Java.\nStrong fundamentals and knowledge on web technologies (Advanced JavaScript, NodeJS, React Native, Graph-QL, Nginx, Apache, HTML, JavaScript, HTTP, JSON).\nAbility to write Database queries, API related calls and integration with third party vendor tools (e.g. Elastic, Geneos, Grafana, Kafka).\nExcellent hands-on AWS, Azure, K8s services infrastructure.\nGood to have Experience with Postgres Database, ELK stack, Spring boot, Grafana.\nProficient understanding of devops tools such as Azure DevOps, Git CI, Azure Pipelines.\nUnderstanding of working of Single Page applications, Multi page applications UI is a plus.\nAbility to write confluence documentations, testcases and drive best practices.\nIncrease day-to-day operational efficiency and accuracy via the use of automated tools and scripts.\nIntermediate understanding of the IT & Network infrastructure, Intermediate troubleshooting knowledge.\nExperience with Agile and Lean methodologies a big plus to produce in a fast-paced environment.\nExcellent communication skills both written and verbal and presentation skills.\nTraining: Agile Delivery, DevOps\nCertifications: Any Programming or K8s or AWS Certifications\nLanguages: English\nAbout Standard Chartered\nWe'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.\nOur 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.\nTogether we:\nDo the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do\nNever settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well\nAre better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term\nWhat we offer\nIn line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.\nCore bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.\n 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.\nFlexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.\nProactive 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\nA continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.\nBeing 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.\nRecruitment Assessments\nSome of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. 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