DevOps Engineer

Job Description

End Date Wednesday 21 September 2022 Salary Range £50,130 - £85,137 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary Aims 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 qualitysoftware and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended. This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertisewithin a feature team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a player-coach model. Job DescriptionAt Lloyds Banking Group, were inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.Want to know moreThe Protection business within Insurance & Wealth is undertaking an ambitious refresh of our digital proposition to customers. At the heart of this, were creating a brand new technology platform which is fundamentally rooted in cloud native architecturalprinciples, with DevOps & automation at its core.The Protection Lab is a co-located change and run team who work together on key projects to deliver value at pace by designing services that people find useful, easy and engaging to use. The Lab has a strong focus on complex problem solving in an agileenvironment where engineers are free to experiment and create innovative products to transform the way our customers engage with us.About the role:As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the Protection Lab youll 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 were keento hear from you!Heres where youll make a difference

• Working within the Lab DevOps team, youll be part of the Lab Engineering Squad. DevOps engineers focus on improving the overall quality of product build, deployments, monitoring and alerting, with emphasis on resilience, stability, scalability and security.
• Youll work closely with the Lab Quality Engineering team to develop our automated testing framework.
• Youll maintain quality documentation of infrastructure and operational/support procedures;
• Youll contribute to the wider DevOps agenda within the bank, working closely with the DevOps Centre of Excellence. In this way youll be able to contribute your knowledge and learn from a growing group of DevOps engineers within the bank.

What we need from you:

• Broad awareness of the DevOps landscape
• Good technical knowledge of one or more specific areas of DevOps tooling, such as:
  • CI / CD
  • DevOps tools (like Sonar, Nexus, GIT, Jenkins)
  • Containerisation & orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes etc..)
  • Public and Private cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, ICP)
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
  • Source control platforms (TFS, VSTS, Git/GitLab/GHE, Bitbucket, Gerrit etc..)
  • Test automation tools
• Strong core OS level skills (e.g. UNIX/LINUX/Windows/zOS) with supporting industry standard scripting skills
• Good Knowledge of network protocols & security
• Experience configuring and working with ISTIO Service Mesh would be highly beneficial, as would Oracle middleware (Weblogic) and DB administration. However, neither are essential

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.Together well make it possible...So what can we offer you in returnWhatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career thats enriching and full of opportunity.Youll 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 well give up to a max of 15%
• Share plans
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Are you interested in joining us Apply today; wed love to hear from you...At Lloyds Banking Group, were driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us youll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means youll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.Were 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 were building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunityto make a real difference.