DevOps Engineer

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As one of the leading retail banks in the UK, Lloyds Banking Group is undertaking a major engineering transformation. Our goal is to put technology at the forefront of our culture and transform banking.

Our aim is to deliver the highest quality customer driven software whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. They will work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high-quality software and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software is delivered and operates as intended. This role will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within our lab and great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model.

Job Description

Our team in Insurance and Wealth is passionate about creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together smart, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working.

As part of our Keep Me on Track lab you'll be joining us at an exciting time as we transform the services, we offer our Corporate Pensions customers. You will help shape our strategy and drive how we deploy, verify, and monitor our applications and services

About the role:

As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the Keep me on Track lab you'll have the opportunity to work on large scale engineering change and to be part of a team driving the DevOps agenda within the bank.

We understand that DevOps is a very broad set of disciplines and no one person can be an expert in all aspects. If you have the right technical background, a willingness to be part of an ambitious team and are willing to develop yourself then we're keen to hear from you!

Here's where you'll make a difference

You will focus on improving the overall quality of product build, deployments, monitoring and alerting, with emphasis on automation, resilience, stability, scalability and security.

You'll help support and grow our quality documentation of infrastructure and operational procedures.

Work closely with stakeholders as well as development teams, you'll contribute to the wider DevOps community within the bank and help enhance our growing group of DevOps engineers within the bank.

What we need from you:

Broad awareness of the DevOps landscape

Build strong relationships with stakeholders and development teams to understand our code, it's dependencies and infrastructure on which it runs.

Good technical knowledge of one or more specific areas of DevOps tooling, such as:

CI / CD

DevOps tools (Nexus, GIT, Jenkins)

Hands on knowledge of containerisation & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes,, Helm etc.)

Public and Private cloud platforms (GCP, ICP, Azure, AWS)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)

Source control platforms (Git/GitLab/GHE, Bitbucket etc..)

Test automation tools

Security best practices

Experience is distributed systems

Experience in management tools, Prometheus, ELK, Splunk, Dynatrace

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

Good Knowledge of network protocols & security

Experience configuring and working with Istio service mesh would be highly beneficial.

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

Together we'll make it possible...

So what can we offer you in return?

Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity.

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