Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Salary: £48,987 - £54,430
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About us…
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…
About this opportunity
We're looking for a driven DevOps Engineer who can help us deliver exciting customer driven solutions. In 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.
What you'll do
Spread your time among short term support-related tasks, longer-term initiatives, problem-solving, optimising, forecasting, planning and personal development.
Collaborate with Engineering teams across the Transport Platform, and the wider LBG, to develop effective solutions.
Take ownership of specific problems to deliver customer focused outcomes.
Contribute to DevOps strategy both within the Corporate Lab and Transport Platform.
Assist Senior DevOps Engineers to advance the capabilities and awareness of DevOps across the Transport Platform.
What you'll need:
Knowledge of and some hands-on experience of the entire pipeline and supporting tooling, Git, Nexus, Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, Ansible, and Terraform.
A understanding of GIT, source code management and managing change.
An understanding of Cloud, including implementation of Kubernetes, and Micro Service Architecture (preference would be Google Cloud).
An understanding of infrastructure as code practises, as well as secure by design principles.
Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and delivery for fast and secure route to live.
Be able to communicate effectively and work together, building relationship with others across a variety of domains, fields and locations, but also be able to work autonomously and proactively.
Passion for technology and its application to real-world problems, such as software automation and delivery.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
Knowledge of Harness (CI/CD Tool).
Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
Knowledge and experience in the development of ReactJS and Node Based applications.
Any experience in automation of testing tools, examples like OWASP ZAP, aXe, and Playwright.
Knowledge and experience in the development of .Net based applications and Microsoft SQL.
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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
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