Authentication Engineer

Standard Chartered; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 10,00,000 - 15,00,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international bank in Bengaluru is seeking a skilled Authentication Service Engineer to design and maintain authentication systems. In this role, you'll automate processes, ensure compliance with security standards, and collaborate effectively with various teams. The ideal candidate has a background in engineering or computer science, proficiency in identity protocols, and strong problem-solving skills. This position offers a competitive salary and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Flexible working options

Core bank funding for retirement savings

Proactive wellbeing support

Continuous learning culture

Inclusive and values-driven organization

Qualifications

• Proficient in implementing and managing authentication systems.
• Hands-on experience integrating identity platforms with enterprise applications.
• Understanding of observability tools and techniques.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements.
• Automate software installation and operational processes.
• Ensure compliance with SDF standards and cybersecurity protocols.

Skills

Authentication system management

Identity protocols (OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, LDAP)

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Education

Bachelor in Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

ForgeRock

Job description

Job Summary

• We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Authentication Service Engineer with a background expertise in design, implementation, and maintenance of authentication systems to join our Authentication Service Engineering team. You will play a key role in building, customizing, and supporting identity platforms. You will work alongside other engineers and developers from project implementation to production, ensure solutions are designed, built, deployed, and maintained to the highest standards of quality, reliability, and performance. You will also work closely with testing & operations teams, product owner and scrum master to foster a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

End-to-End Ownership
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, and establish clear objectives.
• Ensure solution implementation adhere to all relevant standards, processes, and security protocols throughout the entire lifecycle.
• Provide engineering expertise to assist applications migrating from one identity platform to another.

Automation
• Automate software installation, build validation, resilience test using existing automation framework via CI/CD pipeline.
• Support operations team to automate routine tasks, operational processes, and incident response procedures to improve efficiency and reduce human error.
• Support testing team to implement automated testing and monitoring to ensure code quality, system stability, and adherence to service level objectives (SLOs), including database testing and performance testing.

Observability
• Champion observability best practices across the organization, advocating for instrumentation and telemetry at all levels of the stack.
• Utilize tracing tools to analyze and troubleshoot complex issues, identifying root causes and implementing preventative measures, including database-related issues.
• Proactively identify and address potential performance bottlenecks, reliability risks, and security vulnerabilities across the entire stack.

Business
• Good understanding of overall ICS business model and new ways for working across technology
• Drive change and adoption of new technology & delivery model with Agile, Dev Ops, Cloud first and identify working opportunities on innovation
• Deliver solutions, patterns and frameworks that will reduce cost of running technology by reducing excessing human resources, refraining by implementing isolated solutions
• Take ownership of any major incidents caused by automation solutions implemented by tooling and automation team
• Prioritise risk remediation and risk buy down use cases

Processes
• Contribute to improve technology processes for simpler, faster and better experience for fellow technology users and clients of ICS
• Ensure 100% compliance to SDF standards, minimum technology (resiliency and capacity) and cyber security standards across all implementation owned by tooling and automation
• Periodic review of all key success measures of running tooling and automation – including ROI or Benefits delivered, define operationalization metrices, and monitoring and make course corrections to improve the efficacy of automation solutions
• Ensure automation and tooling adaption are incorporated to product/vendor selection, tested and verified fit for BAU/production

Governance
• Ensure processes are complying to the Bank standard

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.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank’s Conduct Principles: [Fair Outcomes for Clients; Effective Financial Markets; Financial Crime Compliance; The Right Environment.]
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Association (or equivalent)

Key stakeholders
Internal:
• Cyber Security Technology teams
• Production engineering support team
• Support function departments needed to execute projects
• Programme managers
• Other squad/tribes focused on automation
• Various Cybersecurity Hive Leads
• Product Owners, Scrum Masters
• Business Analysts
• Compliance/ Governance Team

External:
• Vendor Service Providers

Qualifications

• Education-Undergraduate level qualification with Bachelor in Engineering or Computer Science
• Languages-JAVA

Skills and Experience

• Proficient in implementing and managing authentication system.
• Expertise of identity protocols, OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0, LDAP, etc
• Hands-on experience in integrating identity platform with enterprise applications and services for authentication, SSO, MFA
• Experience working with authentication services such as ForgeRock is an added advantage.
• Understanding of observability tools and techniques. Monitor, troubleshoot, and support identity platform infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, and compliance.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills.

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 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 thingand 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
• Are better together,we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

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-offincluding 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 workingoptions based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing supportthrough 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 cultureto 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.