JOB TITLE: Software Engineer - Failover Automation
SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100
LOCATION(S): Halifax, Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above.
About this opportunity
At DevOps Services our focus is on enabling the business and its software engineers to focus on developing customer product differentiation underpinned by a standardised toolchain to minimise friction throughout the build and deployment lifecycle. This role sits in our Failover Automation team, to ensure customers at Lloyds are served by a resilient highly available products in all events, including those that inevitably impact our IT services from time to time. This is a unique chance to join a team that celebrates curiosity, diversity and value creation!
Typical activities you'd get involved with:
The role involves finding opportunities and delivering capabilities to enable Lloyds Banking Group to deliver its innovation and resilience strategies.
You'll be part of a small but dedicated team, prototyping new solutions.
You'll support development and execution of our trials and subsequent delivery within our Agile Framework
Attendance at industry events to represent LBG and learn about emerging propositions to ensure the bank is keeping pace with market developments may be necessary from time to time.
Enhance the colleague Fintech partnering through better tooling and process improvements
Provide education and mentorship covering your key skill areas to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling.
What you'll need
Someone with a passion for technology and how it can be adopted and used for our colleagues and customers. A genuine interest in emerging tech and its application would be beneficial. You'll work in a highly collaborative way, working closely with other specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers, partner resources and other 3rd parties.
You're adaptable, able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances and are comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership using your own judgment. Innovation is at the backbone of this team, with a real focus on trying the unproven and pushing our tech forward, to succeed in this role you'd need to be tenacious and resilient.
Skills we'd like to see:
Experience in at least one programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript, C#)
Experience with Cloud software solutions and databases
Good knowledge on software development life cycle, architecture and best practices
Experience in pipeline / orchestration technologies desirable, including Harness.io, Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy
Passionate about technology and writing clean, maintainable & performant code
Any experience of these would be useful
Python, Golang or experience designing APIs
About working for us
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 under-represented 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.
28 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.