JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer - Segments & Propositions Platform
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £70,900pa - £100,000pa (dependant on location) plus the below benefits
LOCATION: Leeds or London
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
We have a great opportunity to play a role in our Segments & Propositions Platform and be part of the groundbreaking innovation we're delivering for millions of our customers. Our team are passionate about creating new services for our customers that bring the latest products to market. Our culture brings together hardworking, people from diverse backgrounds who enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.
What will I be doing?
As a DevOps Engineer in our Platform, you'll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing and release management. We expect that you'll demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions. As DevOps is not a "thing you do" but a cultural change more than anything, you're also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do.
We want to see placement of these skills in context - why they matter, what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation. It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
About you
Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, solving, tuning, upgrade & optimisation
Mentoring or leadership experience
Knowledge/experience of service mesh
Strong familiarity with source code repositories and other tools, particularly Git
Experience across the entire software development process from inception, through build to production. E.g. Continuous integration, Automated deployments
Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven, npm.)
Tools commonly used to build automated release pipelines, Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube
Java and JavaScript would be a plus, as they are currently the languages of choice for software in the bank.
Alternatively, knowledge of at least one of the following languages: Python, Golang, Rust
Familiarity with containers and orchestration, Docker or Kubernetes
Hands on Cloud experience with both public and private Cloud experience - ideally with GCP, Azure or OCP
Knowledge of tools for cloud infra as code, Terraform & CloudFormation
It would be great if you also had a "can-do" attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects, and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle.
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups. We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes:
A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual performance related bonus
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?
Join our journey.