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Working closely with development, infrastructure, cloud, and production support teams, you will drive the adoption of SRE practices to reduce operational risk, improve service availability, and ensure critical applications and platforms always operate reliably.\nThe role combines traditional SRE responsibilities with the opportunity to help shape the next generation of operational tooling through AI-enabled automation. In addition to supporting the reliability of Markets systems, you will contribute to the development of AI-powered operational assistants and Microsoft Copilot-integrated agents that improve incident management, troubleshooting, observability, knowledge management, and operational efficiency.\nKey Responsibilities\nSite Reliability Engineering\nImprove the reliability, availability, scalability, and performance of business-critical Markets applications and platforms.\nEstablish and manage Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and error budgets to drive reliability-focused engineering decisions.\nLead the diagnosis and resolution of production incidents, reducing Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Recover (MTTR).\nDrive root cause analysis and permanent remediation of recurring production issues.\nProactively identify reliability risks and implement measures to improve resilience and fault tolerance.\nDesign and implement monitoring, alerting, observability, and capacity management solutions across Markets technology platforms.\nPartner with development teams to improve application operability, observability, recoverability, and production readiness.\nSupport disaster recovery, resiliency testing, failover exercises, and service continuity planning.\nDrive operational excellence through automation, self-healing capabilities, and reduction of manual operational effort.\nProvide technical leadership during high-severity incidents and critical production events.\n\nObservability & Automation\nDevelop and enhance observability solutions covering metrics, logs, traces, synthetic monitoring, and service health monitoring.\nBuild automated operational workflows, runbooks, and remediation capabilities.\nDevelop dashboards and analytics that provide actionable insights into application health, performance, capacity, and reliability trends.\nSupport the ongoing evolution of the bank’s monitoring and observability capabilities.\nAI & Copilot Engineering\nContribute to the design and development of AI-powered operational tooling and intelligent automation solutions.\nDevelop Microsoft Copilot-integrated agents that assist engineers in troubleshooting, incident response, change risk assessment, knowledge retrieval, and operational decision-making.\nIdentify opportunities to apply Generative AI and AIOps capabilities to reduce operational workload and improve engineering productivity.\nCollaborate with platform engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to develop practical AI use cases within production operations.\nEvaluate and implement AI-driven observability, anomaly detection, event correlation, and predictive operational capabilities.\n\nStrategy\nAwareness and understanding of the T&O 30 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 Markets Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team is a global function focused on ensuring the reliability, performance, resilience, and operational stability of the bank’s critical Markets applications and platforms. Working closely with development, infrastructure, and cloud engineering teams, the SRE team drives observability, automation, incident reduction, and operational excellence across the Markets technology estate.\nThe ideal candidate will have strong experience supporting large-scale production environments and deep expertise in observability technologies such as Elastic, Grafana, Open Telemetry, or Geneos, together with supporting technologies including Kafka, cloud platforms, and automation frameworks. They will apply SRE principles to improve service reliability, accelerate incident resolution, reduce operational toil, and enhance platform resilience.\nIn addition, the candidate will contribute to the development of AI-powered operational tooling and Microsoft Copilot-integrated agents, helping automate troubleshooting, knowledge retrieval, incident analysis, and operational workflows. This role requires a blend of reliability engineering, software development, and automation skills, with a focus on improving both platform stability and engineering productivity across the Markets domain.\nProcesses\nYou will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability, reliability, and performance of our Markets applications and platforms, 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.\n\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 T&O 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\nGlobal Head, Markets Production Management\nLead, Markets Site Reliability Engineering\nMarkets PSS Leads\nMarkets PSS Managers\nHead, Observability\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]\nSkills and Experience\nReliability Engineering\nObservability Platforms\nSoftware Engineering\nCloud Computing\nAutomation Engineering\nIncident Management\n\nTechnical Skills\nStrong experience with several of the following technologies:\nPrometheus and AlertManager\n\nGrafana\nOpenTelemetry (Metrics, Logs, Tracing)\nElastic Stack or equivalent observability platforms\nApplication Performance Monitoring (APM) tools\nSynthetic monitoring solutions\n\nKafka / Confluent Kafka\nServiceNow ITOM and Event Management\nAzure, AWS, AKS, EKS, or Kubernetes-based platforms\n\nTerraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, or similar automation tools\n\nExperience with Shell scripting, Java, Python or Ruby\n\nExperience with Web Technologies (Apache, HTML, JavaScript, HTTP, XML)\nProgramming and scripting experience in one or more of:\nPython\nJava\nGo\nShell scripting\nPowerShell\n\nReliability Engineering Competencies\nAdvanced troubleshooting skills across applications, middleware, cloud infrastructure, databases, networking, and distributed systems.\nProduction incident management and major incident support experience.\nRoot cause analysis and problem management expertise.\nCapacity planning, performance engineering, and resiliency testing experience.\nStrong understanding of operational risk and production stability principles.\nAI & Automation Experience (Preferred) Experience in one or more of the following areas would be highly advantageous:\nMicrosoft Copilot Studio and Copilot extensibility.\nAI agent development and orchestration.\nGenerative AI platforms and Large Language Models (LLMs).\nAIOps platforms and intelligent event management.\nRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures.\nOperational knowledge management and search platforms.\nAI-enabled observability and incident management solution\nQualifications\nTraining: Agile Delivery, SRE\nLicenses: Any\nMembership: Any\nAny Professional certifications in SRE, monitoring and observability platforms such as ElasticSearch, Grafana, or ITRS Geneos:\nCertified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)\nKubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (KCNA)\nCertified Administrator for Apache Kafka\nRed Hat Certified Specialist in Event-Driven Development with Kafka\nAWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate\nLanguages: English\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, Information Systems, or equivalent practical experience.\nMinimum 5+ years of IT experience, including at least 2 years in SRE, Production Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a similar reliability-focused role.\nExperience supporting critical production applications within financial services, capital markets, trading platforms, or similarly demanding environments.\nStrong understanding of distributed systems, cloud-native architectures, and large-scale production operations.\nExperience with software engineering principles, source control, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.\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 h...","description_format":"text","description_chars":12508,"description_truncated":true,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["Annual leave","Continuous learning","Flexible schedule","Life insurance"],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Commercial & Retail Banks","Wealth Management & Financial Advisors","Investment Banking & M&A Advisory"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-13T13:34:50Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":86,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":1,"age_days":0,"expected_fill_days":4,"reasons":["conf:2","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-14T01:08:54Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/standard-chartered-senior-sre-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/standard-chartered-senior-sre-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-14T01:08:54Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":1734,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-15T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":20709},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=20709"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fstandard-chartered-senior-sre-engineer"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fstandard-chartered-senior-sre-engineer"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fstandard-chartered-senior-sre-engineer"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/standard-chartered-senior-sre-engineer\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fstandard-chartered-senior-sre-engineer"}]}