Job Summary

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•    The Engineering Excellence & DevOps team sitting in Technology Strategy & Architecture organization are seeking a Dev Ops / test automation engineer with 8 or more years of experience to be an engineering manager, delivering DevOps and Testing Automation related software solutions.

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Strategy

•    Understand the bank’s DevOps strategy and implementing automation solutions to improve the bank’s software delivery pipeline.

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Business

•    This role requires broad engagement with application delivery teams across the bank, helping them adopt DevOps pipeline solutions to improve delivery efficiency and maturity.

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Processes

•    Understand the bank’s software delivery processes and implement solutions in line with the bank’s compliance and security requirement.  

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People & Talent

•    Work collaboratively with a team of diverse engineers in sprint delivery.
•    Produce technical documentation and prepare training materials on the solutions being delivered and provide technical support.
•    Conduct briefing and/or training sessions to application delivery teams to help them get onboarded and accelerate adoption.

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Risk Management

•    Understand bank’s risk management framework and embed that into the technology solution being delivered.

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Governance

•    Understand bank’s software delivery & quality assurance framework and assist in solutioning in respective governance activity.

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Regulatory & 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.

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Key stakeholders

•    Head of Solution Delivery
•    Technology Assurance Owners
•    Delivery leads

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Skills and Experience

•    Hands-on experience in implementing automated testing solutions with frameworks such as Cucumber, Selenium, Appium.
•    Hands-on experience in Java. Proficient in additional languages such as .NET, JavaScript, Scala, Python, Kotlin is a bonus
•    Hands-on experience with Test Management tooling such as Azure DevOps Test Plan is highly desirable
•    Experience in DevOps with exposure to CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, Ansible is desirable
•    Experience with Unix and Windows host operating systems, scripting (Bash/Shell or PowerShell) & networking is desirable
•    Experience with cloud services such as AWS EC2 as well as container platform such as Docker and Kubernetes are bonus

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Qualifications

•    Experience in DevOps practices, including continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure as code.
•    Proficiency in testing automation frameworks, tools, and methodologies, with experience in developing and maintaining automated test scripts and suites.
•    Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Ruby, and experience with configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet.
•    Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to troubleshoot technical issues.
•    Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with developers, operations teams, and other stakeholders.
•    Hand on experience in implementing various services in Azure cloud resources like storage, load balancers, DNS, logging and monitoring etc.
•    Hands on experience in Linux and database administration activites (Oracle,  MySQL and PostgreSQL)
•    Exposure towards OS level patching and upgrades.
•    Exposure to diff deployments strategy (blue green and canary)

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SDLC

•    Proficiency in SDLC methodologies such as Waterfall, Agile, or Scrum, and experience with implementing SDLC best practices.
•    Familiarity with software testing methodologies, including unit testing, integration testing, system testing, and acceptance testing.
•    Experience with software deployment and release management, including release planning, scheduling, and coordination.
•    Knowledge of software configuration management, including version control, branching strategies, and merging.

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