Cloud Platform DevOps Engineer

Job Description

End Date Thursday 15 December 2022 Salary Range £52,912 - £85,982 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Flexible / Variable Hours, Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary . Job DescriptionCloud Platform DevOps EngineerLloyds Banking GroupLocation: Leeds; Halifax; Bristol; Manchester; Edinburgh or LondonSalary & Benefits£52,912 to £85,982 base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working. We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health.Who are Lloyds Banking GroupLloyds Banking Group is the UKs leading digital franchise, with over 13 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. Were buildingthe bank of the future, and we need your help. Our Environment Provisioning team is looking for an experienced and passionate Cloud Platform / Dev Ops Engineer with strong hands-on development & infrastructure CI/CD experience. Youll be an active and leading member of a cloud-focused team of engineers working on one of the Groups flagship projects to deliver a strategic multi-cloud platform that will enable the business to realise the next generation of services that form the Banks vision for 2022 and beyond!The role will have end-to-end accountabilities including:

• Shaping the Management Services Cloud-technology roadmaps which is driven by the desire to enhance the developer experience and drive self service environment creation
• Finding opportunities & use-cases for new features and cloud-based products
• Collaboratively working with the business and other engineering teams to design then build and release enterprise-class solutions that progress the programmes roadmap

The role will require you to be hands-on and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise.What youd get involved with:Driving opportunities for, and delivery of enterprise-class automated solutionsIdentifying shortcomings and opportunities, including use cases for new features to drive the developer experience and drive automation of environment provisioningAnalysis and evaluation of the feasibility/relevance of proposals for complex products/services, then develops and amends as necessaryWhats needed to be considered for this jobEssential:

• Development Experience Background with a more recent move to Cloud & Dev Ops Infrastructure
• Experience of Git & GitOps
• Strong experience of IaC especially Terraform Enterprise offerings
• Strong experience of scripting language (Python, Bash, etc)
• Experience of building / setting patterns for CI/CD pipelines including e.g. Github Actions, Azure DevOps, YAML etc
• Experience building services on a cloud platform (pref. on Azure)
• Experience of developing serverless applications especially Cloud functions
• API experience desirable e.g. RESTful API development & deployment
• Experience of using relational or NoSQL Cloud Databases from an application point of view
• A keen follower of engineering best practices such as TDD
• Comfortable collaborating with the team & mentoring junior engineers

Desirable:

• A good understanding of Cloud Security and the benefits of guardrails
• Recent practical experience administering a cloud platform
• Recent Cloud or Certification related to the above
• Go lang experience or designing CLIs
• Other Hashicorp products e.g. Sentinel, Vault
• Prior Solution Architecture Experience
• Experience of Containerisation & Kubernetes

About you:

• Cloud Platform / DevOps engineer with a passion for IaC
• Competent in core cloud skills like IAM, security, networking
• Experience in designing and developing cloud services & CI/CD using automation, IaC
• Awareness of enterprise security concerns like zero trust, least privilege, minimising blast radius, preventative guardrails
• Able to develop new features where other emerging technologies present an opportunity
• A skilled collaborator working across the team with architectural, business, and other engineering leads to shape, design and engineer solutions
• Continuous curiosity to learn and develop themselves with industry standard methodology methods and tooling in the cloud function
• Technology agnostic and are willing to adapt their approach in pursuit of the best solution

We are flexible on location across any GS&S 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 doesnt work for everyone so can be flexible to a variety of working patterns. Whilst we cant accommodate every option we are happy to consider any request.Were committed to building a team which reects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.If this role this sounds like it could be for you, please click apply.At Lloyds Banking Group, were 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 youll have a key role to play in shaping the financialservices 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 cu