Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Summary

• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, repeatable, and reliable software delivery
• Automate build, deployment, configuration, and environment provisioning processes using modern DevOps tooling
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code solutions for cloud and on-premise platforms
• Continuously improve deployment efficiency, environment consistency, scalability, and operational resilience

Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with application developers, SRE, QA, product managers, security, infrastructure, and business stakeholders
• Participate in agile delivery processes including sprint planning, daily standups, retrospectives, and release planning
• Contribute to technical documentation, runbooks, knowledge sharing, and operational handover activities
• Mentor engineers on DevOps practices, automation standards, release governance, and operational excellence

Skills and Experience

Must-have Skills

• DevOps, Linux & Container & Networking
• Database
• Java

Qualifications

Key Experiences

• 3-8 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins or Azure DevOps).
• Strong experience with Java application lifecycle management, including build, test, packaging, and deployment.
• Solid experience with container and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Proficiency in scripting/automation (Bash, Python, Groovy, or similar).
• Good understanding of observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or similar).
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking fundamentals, and system troubleshooting.
• Fluent English communication skills, both spoken and written.

Languages

• English

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

What we offer

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 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.