Lead, Automation Platform

Overview Lead for our Automation Platform at Standard Chartered. Drive the DevOps engineering strategy of the platform teams under Technology & Architecture. Shape and guide growth for infrastructure automation and transform capabilities to manage on-prem infrastructure. Lead the design and delivery of platform automation capabilities, empower platform teams to run automation, balance engineering experience with governance, and lead a team of platform engineers to continuously improve this capability. Aim to reduce environment setup time from days to minutes, allowing teams to focus on business logic. Embed security, compliance, and cost-optimization into every layer of the platform while fostering a culture of automation-first excellence. Responsibilities Strategy Design and Build Self-Service IaaS: Design and deploy automated pipelines for provisioning secure, compliant on-prem environments (Kubernetes, VMs, networks, storage) using IaC (Puppet, Ansible). Design and Implement JIT Access: Develop zero-trust security models with dynamic, time-bound access controls (e.g., HashiCorp Vault). Automate Lifecycle Management: Enable 1-click environment creation, scaling, and teardown via CI/CD and GitOps workflows (e.g. Jenkins, Azure DevOps). Embed Compliance: Integrate banking-grade security (RBAC, secrets management, auditing) into all provisioning processes. Optimize Developer Experience: Create intuitive interfaces (CLI/UI) for developers to request, manage, and monitor resources. Lead & Guide: Lead a team of platform engineers to deliver business value to other platform and engineering teams. Collaborate & Evangelize: Partner with app dev teams to understand pain points and drive adoption of the IaaS platform. Continuous Improvement: Monitor system performance, reduce toil, and iterate using data-driven insights (Prometheus/Grafana). Business Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders. Deliver new solutions and practices to ensure the organization capitalizes on industry learning and growth. Contribute to new business initiatives and projects. Appraise and interpret complex requirements to understand impact on delivery changes. Processes Realize the end-to-end delivery practice and its processes. Responsible for delivery processes. Own risk management of change. Drive delivery optimization by reviewing and optimizing data pertaining to change effectiveness. People & Talent Exceptional communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills. Ability to influence and lead diverse teams. Lead through example and build the appropriate culture and values. Set tone and expectations with risk and control partners. Risk Management Own risks linked to code delivery to production and maintenance. Own end-to-end risks of dev/test environments and tooling. Drive closure of risks, operational events and audit findings on time. Educate the team on risk management and continual mitigation. Comply with organisation risk management framework. Find automated solutions to reduce risk and avoid manual work. Governance Awareness of regulatory framework and requirements relevant to the role. Regulatory & Business Conduct Display exemplary conduct and adhere to Group Values and Code of Conduct. Embed highest ethics standards across the organization, ensuring compliance with laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct. Identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters. Key Stakeholders TTO Management Team T&A Management Team Software Engineering Platform Teams Engineers Business, Regional & Country CIOs & COOs CISRO, CISO CDO Group and Country Compliance & Regulators Group Internal Audit Operational Risk Other Responsibilities Stakeholder management and education sessions to clarify complex topics. Demonstrate engineering leadership with ownership, accountability and sound practices. Perform other responsibilities as assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies. Build a culture of good conduct. Nice-to-Haves Experience with platform engineering (Backstage, internal developer portals). Knowledge of hybrid cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP integrated with on-prem). Contributions to open-source infrastructure projects. Financial services or highly regulated industry experience. Why Join Us? Impact at Scale: Accelerate innovation for thousands of developers. Cutting-Edge Tech: Build a mission-critical platform using cloud-native principles on-prem. Culture of Change: Reward calculated risk-takers who challenge how things are done. Growth: Access to conferences, certifications, and mentorship. Benefits: Competitive salary, healthcare, and flexible/hybrid work. Qualification Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent, and at least 8 years’ experience in Software Engineering, DevOps, or related fields Role Specific Technical Competencies On-prem infrastructure (VMware, or bare-metal) One IaC tools configuration management tools (Puppet, Ansible) Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker) and networking (Calico, Istio) Automating security (JIT access, secrets management, policy-as-code) Scripting/coding skills (Python, Go, Ruby, Shell, Bash) Fundamentals pertaining to software engineering, containers, databases, networks, and infrastructure CI/CD pipelines, preferably Azure DevOps (ADO) with boards, pipelines and workflow integration Test driven development About Standard Chartered We are an international bank focused on purpose and impact, with a long-standing history of serving clients and communities. We value diversity and inclusion and strive to live our Group Code of Conduct. #J-18808-Ljbffr