• Job Description

  Req#: 093248

  End Date

  Friday 14 June 2024

  Salary Range

  £85,208 - £106,510

  We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

  Flexible Working Options

  Flexibility in when hours are worked

  Job Description Summary

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  Job Description

  DevOps-SRE Lead Engineer

  Lloyds Banking Group

  London based : 2 days per week in the office and the rest from home

  Salary & Benefits: £85,255 to £127,300 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

  We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance.

  About us;
  We’re the Business and Client Banking division, part of Commercial Banking and we work across several business platform areas. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services that millions of customers across the UK rely upon, day-to-day and especially in their time of need.

  What will you focus on in this role?

  You’ll work in a hybrid role, leading the team, mentoring, coaching and developing staff, while the other half of the role will be acting as a very hands-on Senior DevOps/Site Reliability Engineer. The team focuses on Site Reliability, Platform, DevOps and Systems engineering, to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems.

  Our engineers are passionate about ensuring the services, both internal and external have; substantial reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs, resiliency, architectural simplicity, as well as continually seeking to find improvements.

  You’ll have the opportunity to deal with complex challenges, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity/forensic analysis and various system design strategies to address those challenges.

  Much of your focus will be on optimising existing systems on Azure, building new Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions for services currently not running on Azure and eliminating manual work through automation wherever feasible. A further stage will be to apply those skills to GCP, but this is further down the road.

  Examples of activities you could be responsible for;

  • Kubernetes & troubleshooting, manged services like AKS

  • Using your SRE Attitude (understanding SLI, SLO & SLA)

  • Container Image Management & Security like Aquasec

  • Code Quality & repository Management like SonarQube & NexusQ

  • Service Mesh (Istio) traffic shaping, canary, blue/green &usage of envoy filter

  • Micro Services Design Patterns & Architecture & Logging

  • Micro Services and Larger Application Service Deployments in K8s

  • Micro Service Data Migration Tools & Knowledge

  • Manage & Migrate Microsoft SQL Server and Database

  • ITILv3 Solutions like ServiceNow

  • Helmfile & Helm Charts writing comprehensive helm charts from scratch

  • Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates & Blueprints & Bicep

  • Azure DevOps CI/CD Automation & Hands-on Azure Pipelines

  • CI/CD Automated Unit/Integration/Load Testing

  • Application Performance Testing & Monitoring (Junit, Gatling, LoadRunner)

  • Observability, Logging, Monitoring & Alerting (Azure Monitor & Dynatrace)

  • Networks & Protocols & DNS & TLS/mTLS

  • PKI Lifecycle Certificate Management Experience like Venafi

  • Azure Application Gateway & API Management

  • Azure IAM - Identity & Access Management

  • Azure Policy Management & Cloud Security

  • Azure Express Route

  • FinOps (cost management activities)

  • Chaos Engineering

  • Day2 & Disaster Recovery

  What do we need to see from applicants?

  We like people who come from diverse cultural backgrounds and are really looking for someone passionate, ambitious and has a good problem solving mindset. On your CV, we need to see the following to consider you for interview:

  • Experience programming in at least two (but not all!) of the following languages: .Net, Java, Groovy, Scala, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript, PowerShell or Bash/Shell.

  • Prior work experience in a technical leadership role.

  • Career background as senior engineering level within the field of DevOps. Ideally, you’ll come from a software engineering style background and have moved into SRE/DevOps.

  • Knowledge of Azure Cloud (i.e. AKS, Key Vault, APIM, Application Gateway, SQL).

  • Very strong DevOps skill set with expertise in integration tools like Azure DevOps, Nexus, and Git

  • Kubernetes & Istio (AKS an advantage)

  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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