• Job Description

  Req#: 081915

  End Date

  Friday 01 September 2023

  Salary Range

  £52,912 - £85,982

  
  

  We support agile working – click here for more information on agile working options.

  Agile Working Options

  Flexible / Variable Hours, Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion

  Job Description Summary

  The Data Platform Services (DPS) Lab operates within the Data & Machine Learning Platform with a purpose to "Enable the group to gain value from data by providing safe and efficient Group-wide data capabilities and services."

  Job Description

  JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer

  SALARY: £66,861 - £75,000

  LOCATION: Manchester

  HOURS: Full time

  WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in our Manchester office location

  About this opportunity

  Data Platform Services are a dynamic and exciting team who provide Data Services to the whole of Lloyds Banking Group enabling Engineers, Scientists and Analysts to extract value from the Groups Data.

  What we focus on:

  • Service Orientated design

  • Self Service enablement

  • Automate Everything we do

  About us

  If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

  What you’ll need

  You’ll need Dev-Ops experience - we manage the RTL and Production in one team which creates a great opportunity to live and breathe the DevOps culture and mind-set.

  You’ll have technical leadership skills – we believe in a culture of nurture and growth within our teams and strive to accelerate our talent through opportunity and direct experience.

  You’ll have hands on skills – We encourage keeping close to the code and systems we work with at all levels in the team and encourage test and learn across all aspects of our work.

  And any experience of these would be really useful

  • Terraform/Ansible – we are passionate about infrastructure as code and see this as an essential skill for our platform teams future

  • Python – we love simplicity, and we see this ever-growing language a key focus for enabling automation

  • Containerisation – Taking services to the cloud and being Cloud ready is a major focus for our team

  • Collaboration – experience of building team skills is key to supporting our learning culture

  • Self Organising – We empower our teams to operate responsibly and encourage autonomy where possible

  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

  • 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

  • A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

  This is a once in a career opportunity to help shape your future as well as ours. Join us and grow with purpose.

  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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