Standard Chartered Bank: DevOps Engineer (Nairobi)

 DevOps Engineer - (2200014280)

: TechnologyJob

: Africa & Middle East-Kenya-NairobiPrimary Location

: Full-timeSchedule

: PermanentEmployee Status

: 14/Jun/2022, 3:54:46 PMPosting Date

: 29/Jun/2022, 12:59:00 AMUnposting Date

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About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 160 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

Be better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 weeks maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with 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.

Recruitment assessments - some of our roles use assessments to help us understand how suitable you are for the role you've applied to. If you are invited to take an assessment, this is great news. It means your application has progressed to an important stage of our recruitment process.

Responsibilities

Working closely with the engineering team to deploy and maintain the infrastructure.

Automate and streamline our operations and processes for scale.

Maintain SLAs by tuning systems according to scale.

Designing systems at scale to make sure solutions built are economical and secured.

Strong understanding of immutable infrastructure and infrastructure as code concepts.

A ‘detail obsessed’ professional who puts customer experience at the heart of any product design

A technology enthusiast who is up-to-date with the latest developments in the world of technology

Someone who can:

Balance customer delight, technology viability and business feasibility

Think big and take ownership of deliverables from ideation to execution

Embrace chaos, uncertainty and volatility

Work in a dynamic environment with a diverse set of stakeholders

Key StakeholdersVenture Lead, Solv Kenya

Commercial Lead, Solv Kenya

Risk and Compliance Solv Kenya

Our Ideal CandidateUniversity Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems.

AWS certified DevOps Engineer with 5-8 years of experience.

Hands on experience working on AWS and Google Cloud.

At least one-year exp in microservices using Docker, kubernetes (EKS), Lambda, EC2, ingress and api gateways.

Most have worked with Container and automation tools such as Docker, terraform and Ansible Jenkins

In-depth knowledge of Networks topology and cloud Security.

Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline (CI/CD Pipeline)

Well versed with at-least two scripting languages - Shell and one more (Python , Ruby). And CloudFormation .

Sound understanding of OS (Linux, CentOs) and OS hardening.

Defining and setting development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operation

Capable of leading a team of ops and ability of prepare and execute a vision.

Implementing various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure

Should be able to work Independently and execute tasks with precision.

Encouraging and building automated processes wherever possible

Code, Build and Release management (CICD) using GIT / Bitbucket and Jenkins.

Optimising and monitoring server performance and infrastructure cost optimisations.

Operation and architecture of multi-tier distributed systems Involving load balancers, firewalls, elastic compute, RDS and KAFKA.

Having the working knowledge of Promatheus and Grafana

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