Cloud Engineer

Job Summary

This is a 12 Months Direct Contract role.

As a Cloud Engineer with a strong DevOps background, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable cloud infrastructure across multiple cloud platforms. You will work closely with development teams, platform engineers, and infrastructure architects to build and optimize cloud-native solutions, automate deployment pipelines, and ensure high availability and security of cloud services.

Your ultimate aim will be the deployment, optimization, and long-term stability of cloud infrastructure and DevOps pipelines while ensuring compliance with security standards, cost optimization, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Cloud Infrastructure & Architecture

• Architect and deploy scalable, resilient, and secure cloud solutions on AWS, Azure (plus), and/or Google Cloud Platform

• Develop and maintain infrastructure using Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM templates (plus), or similar tools

• Lead migration of on-premises applications to cloud platforms and modernize legacy systems to cloud-native architectures

• Design and implement solutions across multiple cloud providers and integrate with on-premises infrastructure; OCP (OpenShift Container Platform) private cloud experience is a plus

• Monitor cloud spending, implement cost-saving measures, and optimize resource utilization across cloud environments

DevOps & CI/CD

• Design, implement, and optimize continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps (plus), GitHub Actions, or similar tools

• Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes using tools like Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt

• Deploy and manage containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes (plus), ECS, AKS, GKE, or OCP/OpenShift (plus)

• Implement GitOps workflows for infrastructure and application deployment using ArgoCD, Flux, or similar tools

• Coordinate and manage software releases, deployments, and rollbacks across multiple environments

Monitoring, Observability & Performance

• Set up comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting systems using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or Datadog

• Analyze system performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement optimizations for improved reliability and efficiency

• Respond to production incidents, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive measures

• Implement Site Reliability Engineering practices including SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and error budgets

Security & Compliance

• Implement security best practices including IAM policies, network security groups, encryption, secrets management, and security scanning

• Ensure cloud infrastructure complies with regulatory requirements, industry standards, and organizational policies

• Implement automated security scanning, vulnerability assessments, and compliance checks in CI/CD pipelines

• Design and implement disaster recovery strategies, backup solutions, and business continuity plans

Strategy

• Cloud strategy development - Support organization's cloud strategy, roadmap, and adoption initiatives

• Technology evaluation - Research and evaluate emerging cloud technologies, tools, and services

• AI-driven automation - Explore and implement AI agents and LLM-based solutions for cloud automation, infrastructure optimization, and intelligent operations (plus)

• Continuous improvement - Drive continuous improvement in cloud infrastructure, DevOps practices, and operational processes

• Innovation and R&D - Experiment with new technologies and implement proof-of-concepts for innovative solutions

Business

• Deliver business value - Focus on delivering solutions that drive business outcomes and operational efficiency

• Project execution - Lead and contribute to cloud and infrastructure projects from planning through implementation

• Stakeholder management - Communicate effectively with stakeholders about project status, technical challenges, and solutions

• Agile practices - Work within agile frameworks, participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives

Processes

• Establish DevOps processes - Define and implement DevOps processes, standards, and best practices across the organization

• Change management - Manage infrastructure changes following established change management procedures

• Quality assurance - Implement testing strategies for infrastructure code including unit tests, integration tests, and end-to-end tests

• SDLC compliance - Ensure all deployments and infrastructure changes comply with Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) requirements

People and Talent

• Work on upskilling of technical expertise of the Engineers to enable them to become more efficient in agentic tools used day-to-day.

• Mentoring and training the squad on technical skills to become proficient at developing AI tools,, services and pipelines.

Risk Management

• Identify and mitigate risks - Proactively identify technical risks, security vulnerabilities, and operational issues

• High availability design - Design and implement highly available and fault-tolerant systems

• Capacity planning - Perform capacity planning and scaling strategies to meet business demands

Governance

• Support the remediation of tech compliance (ESDLC) requirements through the delivery lifecycle (design reviews, security reviews, code reviews, SAT, OAT, etc.) with support from HTL(Hive Tech Lead) / PO / CPO (Chief Product Owner)

Regulatory and Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct.

• Take 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.

• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.

Key Stakeholders

• Global Head, Credit Origination Technolog

• FFG Technology Programme Manager

• CIB DC & CP Cross Hive Tech Leads (where applicable)

• Hive Tech Leads & Product Area Leads, Product Enablement

• Hive Product Owner, Product Enablement

• HIVE Architects

Our Ideal Candidate

• 10+ years of overall IT experience in infrastructure, operations, or software engineering

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)

• DevOps experience including CI/CD pipeline development and automation

• Experience with containerization and Kubernetes and with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)

• Experience with microservices architecture and cloud-native application development

• Experience in agile development environments and modern software development practices

• Experience with large-scale, mission-critical production environments

• Azure Cloud and Azure DevOps experience is a plus

• Kubernetes orchestration experience is a plus

• OCP (OpenShift Container Platform) private cloud experience is a plus

• Experience with AI agents for cloud automation is a plus - Exposure to LLMs, AI-powered automation tools, or agentic AI systems for infrastructure management

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Cloud Infrastructure Architecture

• Azure Cloud Platform

• DevOps & CI/CD Pipeline Development

• Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards)

• Container Orchestration - Kubernetes

• OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) - Private Cloud

• Docker & Containerization

• Configuration Management (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)

• Scripting & Automation (Python/Bash/PowerShell)

• Cloud Networking & Security

• Monitoring & Observability (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/Azure Monitor)

• Linux / Unix System Administration

• GitOps & Version Control (Git/GitHub/GitLab/Azure Repos)

• Microservices Architecture

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Practices

• Cloud Security & Compliance

• Database Management (SQL/NoSQL/Cloud DBs)

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.

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