CSS Platform Engineering Team SRE LEAD (India & Malaysia)

Leadership Skills

• Core to Advanced level leadership skills are expected • As you move up the bands, leadership skills become increasingly important alongside technical expertise
• Key Characteristics: • Complexity: Broad and/or deep understanding of sophisticated or specialized aspects of the technology domain • Experience: Experience applying technical skills in varied situations, including some complex contexts • Responsibility: Senior individual contributor or team lead role with significant technical expertise • Technology Focus Areas: • System development and architecture • Technical leadership and mentoring • Complex problem-solving in technology solutions

Supporting applications

• EESP, Data Security, VMIS & ASA sub domain all applications. Impact of not having the backfill. Failure to upgrade the role and expand the capability introduces material risks: • Increased operational risk during large-scale platform migrations • Delayed onboarding of strategic security services • Higher probability of production incidents and extended recovery times • Reduced engineering governance during change implementation • Increased dependency on a limited number of critical SMEs • Challenges in attracting and retaining experienced Lead SRE talent • Reduced resilience across critical cyber security platforms supporting the Bank

Skills Required

• The Lead SRE role is accountable for:
• AIVM • Qualys Guard • Sonatype • End-to-end production stability across EESP, VMIS and ASA platforms • Major Incident leadership • Problem Management • Production Governance • Operational Risk Management • Change Governance • Service Availability Management
• Rather than simply supporting production, the role owns operational resilience for security platforms protecting the Bank.Vulnerability Management : • Experience with tools such as Qualys, SonaType Nexus Repository, Aqua • Patch management workflows. • Risk prioritization based on CVSS scoring and asset criticality. • Ability to correlate vulnerabilities with business impact. Operating Systems: • Strong knowledge of Linux and Windows Server environments Technical Skills • Scripting skills preferred (e.g., Rundeck, Python) • COP Tools, ITRS Network & security: • Basic understanding of firewalls and firewall rules Documentation & Reporting: • Creating incident and compliance reports • Maintaining SOPs and playbooks for common security events or other technical issues

Qualifications

• postgraduate with security products exposure • At least 15 - 20 years hands-on experience preferably with CSS applications and vulnerability management. • Demonstrated experience in managing production server security in 24*7 support models. • Experience working in Service now, ITSM tools or SOC environments is a strong plus. • Any industry certifications such as Comp TIA Security + or equivalent preferred

About Standard Chartered

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.