• Job Description

  Req#: 107845

  End Date

  Wednesday 21 February 2024

  Salary Range

  £66,861 - £74,290

  
  

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  Agile Working Options

  Hybrid Working

  Job Description Summary

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  Job Description

  JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer

  LOCATION: Halifax, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Birmingham or Manchester

  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

  Are you a driven individuals ready to take on a DevOps Engineering role, helping to deliver exciting customer driven solutions. From our DevOps Centre of Excellence 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.

  We have a vacancy in our growing Centre of Excellence and are looking for suitable candidates who can help us evolve the engineering experience specifically building DevOps pipelines, so previous experience of this will be essential to this role.

  Specific activities which you’ll be responsible for include things like;

  • Working with Engineering teams to upskill their capabilities in their relevant technology area

  • Taking ownership of specific problems and delivering customer focused outcomes

  • Be an ambassador for the DevOps brand both internally and externally

  • It is essential that you bring the right mind-set to the role. We understand in such a diverse and disparate world no one person can be an expert in all aspects of all DevOps tooling. If you have the right technical background, a willingness to be part of a team dedicated to transforming the landscape

  What we're looking for from you:

  • ‘team player’ who can build relationship and work productively with others across a variety of domains, disciplines and locations

  • Someone who is passionate about technology and its application to real-world problems

  • Someone who has confidence to express own opinions, and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate

  • For this role, specific in-depth knowledge of building DevOps Pipelines

  • Technical knowledge of DevOps tooling, e.g. Continuous Integration tooling pipelines, Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes/etc..), Cloud Platforms (AWS/Azure/Google), Source control platforms (GHE/Endevor/etc..), ZD&T Mainframe emulation, UrbanCode

  • Solid core OS level skills (UNIX/LINUX/Windows/ZOS) with supporting industry standard scripting skills

  • Experience of coaching and mentoring teams to adopt latest techniques

  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.

  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

  Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

  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.

• About the company

  For over 250 years we’ve been making a difference to the lives of customers, businesses and communities. Today, we're still driven by our purpose of helping Britain prosper. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.

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