Lead DevOps Engineer - Consumer Onboarding

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Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank and biggest mobile bank with nearly 14 million active online customers across our three main brands.

We're investing £3bn on our future - across platforms, people and data capabilities to truly become the best bank for customers.

Job Description

Consumer Onboarding will give you the opportunity to work in a fun dynamic team who are at the forefront of leading the way for customers & colleagues in transforming & digitising the Lloyds Banking Group Retail Bank across mobile, branch, telephony and internet banking. The transformation culture Consumer Onboarding lives by is to empower its co-located teams to create dynamic environments using agile methodology, including scrum, ultimately providing outstanding customer experiences; and by driving innovative technology solutions that drive iterative change across research, buy and servicing needs to market at pace.

A great opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Onboarding Value Stream as a DevOps Engineer. There are excellent opportunities for driven individuals to take on a DevOps Engineering role, helping to deliver exciting customer driven solutions. From our Central DevOps team we lead the way in defining the best of new technology offerings, working closely with our Engineering Leads to collectively drive the tooling agenda whilst balancing the requirements of the UKs leading retail bank. The ultimate measure of success for us is using these best of breed software and platform solutions so that we can continuously improve how we deliver market leading applications for our customers.

Key Capabilities

An ideal DevOps Engineer for Consumer Onboarding will need to be able to display the following qualities:

About you...

Thought leadership in all aspects of DevOps tooling. This will involve defining and contributing to the overall strategy of the Group

Working with Engineering teams to up-skill their capabilities in their relevant technology area

Taking ownership of specific problems and delivering customer focused outcomes

Be an ambassador for the DevOps brand both internally and externally to the division

Knowledge & Experience

Technical knowledge of a specific area of DevOps tooling, e.g. Continuous Integration tooling pipelines across a variety of technologies (e.g. Java/.NET), Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes/etc..), Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/Google), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Chef/Puppet/Ansible), Source control platforms (TFS/VSTS/Git/GitLab/GHE/Bitbucket/Gerrit/etc..)

Solid core OS level skills (e.g. UNIX/LINUX/Windows/ZOS) with supporting industry standard scripting skills

Experience of coaching and mentoring teams to adopt the latest techniques

At least one Programming language - 3+ years' experience

Network protocols & security - 8+ years' experience

DevOps Tools (like Sonar, Nexus, GIT) - 8+ years' experience

Test Automation Tools - 4+ years' experience

Cloud Infrastructure - 3+ years' experience

Docker Containers - 3+ years' experience

Rancher - 2+ years' experience

CI/CD Pipeline - 10+ years' experience

Kubernetes - 3+ years' experience

Jenkins 2 - 10+ years' experience

Application Servers - WAS & Liberty - 4 years' experience

What we're looking for...

A 'great teammate' who can build relationship and work productively with others across a variety of domains, disciplines and locations

Someone who is passionate about technology and its application to real-world problems

It is essential that you bring the right mind-set to the role. We understand in such a diverse and disparate world no one person can be an expert in all aspects of all DevOps tooling. If you have the right technical background, a willingness to be part of a team dedicated to transforming the landscape and are willing to develop yourself then we're keen to hear from you

At LBG, we're invested in your continual development. That's why we've fostered a collaborative learning environment that supports your career goals and encourages knowledge-sharing. Our inclusive culture offers you flexibility to try new things while helping you build the future you want.

What you'd get in return:

Offering you both opportunity and profile - we'll provide you with a diverse, energising and informal environment that focuses on equal opportunity and real career progression.

We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a genuine difference to millions throughout your career with us.

We'll also give you a broad remuneration package which includes:

A car allowance of £4,700

A performance share bonus of c20%

A generous pension contribution

A flex cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle

Private health cover

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Various share schemes including free shares

We're a founder member of the Agile Future Forum, a group of leading UK employers supporting flexible working. We're happy to consider options other than 9-to-5 office-based work. To us "Agile working" is more than working flexibly - it's about entrusting colleagues to think creatively about how, when and where they work, to deliver their very best.

So if you have a passion for building communities of pioneers, innovators and analytics specialists, developing game-changing models and analytical solutions, and unlocking your potential as a leader then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you...