Azure Lead Product Engineer


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Lloyds Banking Group

Listed on

5th August 2022

Location

London

Salary/Rate

£70784 - £122892

Type

Permanent

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***The base salary banding for this role is £81,928 - £122,892 in London and £70,784 - £106,176 outside of London, plus the benefits listed below.***

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Recover. We're on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it. Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.

Our Cloud Engineering team is looking for an experienced and passionate Azure Lead Cloud Engineer with strong hands-on development experience. As a Cloud Engineer you'll be an active and leading member of a cloud-focused team of engineers - working on one of the Group's flagship projects to deliver a strategic platform for Azure Cloud that will enable the business to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank's vision for 2022 and beyond!

The role will have end-to-end accountabilities including:

Shaping Azure and Cloud-technology roadmapsFinding opportunities & use-cases for new features and cloud-based productsCollaboratively working with the business and other engineering teams to design then build and release enterprise-class solutions that progress the Bank's roadmapEnsuring released services are resilient and optimised for cost, scalability and operational efficiency

The role will require you to be 'hands-on' and able to lead from the front - setting an example of behaviours and practices for team members to learn from and adopt in their own careers and development. You'll be an advocate for Engineering, providing a voice to engineers within the teams, identifying and supporting their teams in resolution of impediments and issues as well as continually developing themselves with industry best practice and tooling used across their engineering team. This role will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within the Cloud topics.

What you'd get involved with:

Driving identification of opportunities for and delivery of enterprise-class automated solutionsContributing to Azure and Cloud Technology RoadmapsLeading the design and delivery of cloud platforms and automation systemsIdentifying shortcomings and opportunities, including use cases for new features and cloud products, then suggests and implements improvements to existing business practicesAnalysing and evaluating the feasibility and relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then developing and amending as necessaryDeveloping and delivering elements of a strategic planning system with guidance from senior colleagues.

What's needed to be considered for this role?

Essential:

Leadership and a blend of both deep domain and technical expertise within a teamDemonstration of great passion for coaching and developing people in a "player-coach" model.Recent experience creating architectural designs for cloud servicesRecent practical experience working with a broad set of Azure services and using Azure CLI/SDK to deliver automationExperience with the following: Delivering platforms based on the principles of Infrastructure as CodeAzure Blueprints, ARM, Azure Policy and knowledge of template specificationCreating and building Azure DevOps pipelines & reposSource code management using Git within an engineering teamAutomation of processes & runbooksRecent experience using Kubernetes and IstioUnderstanding and ability toto write, parse, process: JSON and YAML and write scripts in BASH, Python, PowerShellA solid understanding of Cloud SecurityMS Azure DevOps Engineer and/or MS Certified Azure Solutions Architect certification

Desirable:

Experience building/running cloud services in a regulated, enterprise environmentOther Infrastructure as Code experience (i.e. Terraform, Jenkins)Other scripting/application languages (i.e. .NET, Java, Node.js)Other Cloud certifications (Azure, GCP, AWS)

About you:

Recent experience designing and delivering public cloud platforms and services, automated API-driven systems with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and agile delivery modelsAble to follow and iteratively improve domain-owned services Azure and other cloud-based products mature and develop new features where other emerging technologies present an opportunityAbility to work with architectural, business, SRE and other engineering leads to shape, design and engineer solutionsAbility to work with a team of engineers to deliver domain-owned deliverables and dependenciesContinuous curiosity to learn and develop with industry best practice methods and tooling in the cloud functionTechnology agnostic and are willing to adapt your approach in pursuit of the best solutionAbility to solve problems, perform troubleshooting and resolve issues

What you'd get in return:

Offering you both opportunity and profile - we'll provide you with a diverse, energising and lively 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.

Together we make it possible.

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

A performance share bonusA generous pension contributionA flex cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestylePrivate health cover30 days holiday plus bank holidaysVarious share schemes including free shares

So if you have a desire to work in a challenging Engineering role in a dynamic environment with quality at the heart of thinking, whilst gaining skills and experience within a friendly and motivated team then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you! We're flexible on location across any CI&SO hub location. As a team we have all embraced working from home. We fully support the new developing workstyles, taking a flexible approach to 'future of work'. We know that a 9-5 doesn't work for everyone so can be flexible to a variety of working patterns. Whilst we can't accommodate every option we're happy to consider any request.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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