Site Reliability Engineer|API

Role Responsibilities
• Supporting the Integration team in multi-Cloud ecosystems including building, deploying and monitoring applications and infrastructure across a variety of Integration and API Management Tech stacks.
• Working closely with product designers, platform engineers and end-user facing application support teams.
• Incident Support (expects 24/7 availability in case of urgency) and Retrospective Management.
• Reviewing production artefacts to proactively identify issues that must be raised and resolved before production deployment more specifically with a deep focus for stability, scalability, deploy ability, configurability, observability, and manageability.
• API Portal Management experience in on-prem and cloud environments.
• API Portal Product support, Experience in API Developer portal, Authentication, Authorization, API Design patterns
• Expertise in Distributed Systems and API Management Platforms Apigee, Axway, Mule, Kong etc.
• Ability to get into the bottom of complex technical issues and bring clarity to ambiguous situations.
• Experience in developing / supporting containerized and cloud native applications.
• Understanding of HTTP specification, SOAP, REST, JSON, XML, OpenAPI, Oauth etc.,
• Deep knowledge in Monitoring and Observability systems like ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.
• Experience in Build and CI / CD tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Artifactory etc.,
• Experience in Messaging Systems like MQ, Kafka, Solace, Rabbit MQ etc.,
• Knowledge in SDN, Load Balancers, Forward and Reverse Proxies like Nginx, HAProxy, Kong, Squid etc.,
• Thorough understanding in standard parts of Network and Web App stack such as TCP/IP, DNS, etc.,
• Understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL) and caching technologies.
• Hands on with Linux, Container and container management technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift etc.,
• Experience with AWS services like VPN, EC2, ELB, EBS, EFS, RDS, S3 (or their Azure or GCP equivalents)

Nice to have
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.,)

Our Ideal Candidate

Role Specific Competencies
• Strong Websphere MQ Administration/Troubleshooting skills.
• Strong Websphere Message Broker Administration/Troubleshooting skills
• Cloud Platform (AWS / Azure)
• Strong system administration skills
• CI / CD tools like Bitbucket, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, Artifactory etc.
• Preferred Datapower administration skills
• Strong Communication and Interpersonal skills (Mandatory)
• NoSQL databases like Postgress, Cassandra, Willingness to learn new technologies.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, etc.,)

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 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