Devops Engineer

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We're on a journey to build the bank of the future, and we need your help. We're continuing our extensive transformation Programme, with an investment of £3bn, redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to impact the lives of more than 26 million customers through brands including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows. We need people who can make this transformation a reality.

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The overall vision within the PFFC Value Stream is to promote social well-being for our customers by enabling them to make and receive payments and protect them from fraud and financial crime.

We're looking for driven individuals to tackle a DevOps Engineering role, helping to deliver exciting customer driven solutions. From our 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 leveraging these best of breed software and platform solutions so that we can continuously improve how we deliver market leading applications for our customers.

You'll be presented with technical challenges on a scale unmatched in other industry sectors, but with this also the satisfaction of knowing your expertise will be making a difference to millions of customers. It's a very hands-on role, with your time spread among short term support-related tasks, longer-term initiatives, problem-solving, optimising, forecasting, planning for the future and personal development, as well as leading others. There really is no such thing as a typical day as a DevOps Engineer in our team!

Behaviours & Competencies

Detailed knowledge of DevOps tooling. This will involve defining and delivering to the overall strategy of the Group

Collaborating with Engineering teams across various Devops tooling in their relevant technology area

Taking ownership of specific problems and delivering customer focused outcomes

Able to manage and contribute on DevOps strategy both internally and externally to the division

What we're looking for in you

Technical enthusiast who can build relationships, work efficiently with others across a variety of domains, fields and locations, but also be able to work autonomously and proactively

You're passionate about technology and its application to real-world problems, such as software automation and delivery

What we're looking for on your CV?

An excellent hands-on experience of the entire pipeline, both breadth and depth in modern web technologies - Terraform, Spinnaker, Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes and components like SonarQube, Nexus IQ

A deep and proven understanding of GIT, source code management and managing change.

Excellent knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and delivery for fast and secure route to live.

A good understanding of how to craft low-latency, high-availability and performant applications and environments with specific knowledge on security and networks

Plus technical understanding of Spring boot, Maven, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL.

We understand in such a diverse and disparate world no one person can be a specialist 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

You'll also receive a package that includes

Discretionary bonus

Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits or simply take the cash

Private Medical Insurance

Pension, where we'll give up to a max of 15%

Share plans

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Tempted to apply but something holding you back?

We're keen to ensure our workforce represents every corner of society, and we celebrate diversity. We further ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to join the application process.

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we'd love to hear from you...