Description
JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810 per annum
LOCATION: Halifax
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
Exciting opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join Smarter Journey as a Senior DevOps Engineer you’ll hold accountability for design, implementation, maintenance and support of DevOps pipelines, tooling/automation at a Feature/Lab team level. This will include recommending the right pipeline and tooling choices appropriate for their Feature/Lab accountabilities, in line with Group Strategy.
Day to day, you will
• Accountable for DevOps implementations at a Feature team/Lab level, ensuring all services/implementations are stable, scalable and performant.
• Ensuring service levels are appropriate for all DevOps services consumed by the Feature/Lab team
• Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt
• Adhering to Group policies and frameworks for build and release
• Drive relentless automation of repetitive and tedious tasks (TOIL)
• Actively contribute to Platform level roadmaps around DevOps pipelines, tooling and technology
• Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, and by undertaking technical interviews to enable us to hire new engineers
• Build your network across the DevOps community within the Group
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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
What you’ll need:
• Proficiency in managing and deploying applications on public cloud (GCP preferred).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Understanding of network segmentation and subnetting.
• Experience with Helm for managing Kubernetes applications.
• Proficiency with multiple CI/CD tools (Jenkins/Spinnaker/Harness)
• Knowledge of configuring and managing firewalls for security.
• Strong understanding of information/network security principles and practices.
• Experience with managing secrets and certificates, such as using HashiCorp Vault.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
• Understanding of service mesh concepts and implementations (Istio).
• Experience with private and hybrid cloud environments.
• Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.
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 performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.