Job Description

End Date Thursday 11 January 2024

Salary Range \xc2\xa366,861 - \xc2\xa374,290

Agile Working Options Hybrid Working

Summary JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer.

As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions.

A DevOps is not a \xe2\x80\x9cthing you do\xe2\x80\x9d but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context \xe2\x80\x93 why they matter, what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation.

It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate.



JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer \xe2\x80\x93 CS&E

SALARY: \xc2\xa366,861.00 - \xc2\xa381,719.00 GBP

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Bristol office site

About this opportunity

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer.

As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing, and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions.

A DevOps is not a \xe2\x80\x9cthing you do\xe2\x80\x9d but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context \xe2\x80\x93 why they matter, what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation.

It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate.

Here\xe2\x80\x99s where you\xe2\x80\x99ll make a difference:

You have can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

About You:

Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation.

Who we are looking for...

• Strong familiarity with source code repositories and other tools, particularly Git
• Experience across the entire software development life cycle from inception, through build to production. This encompasses:

• Continuous integration
• Automated deployments
• Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven, nm.)

Tools we commonly used to build automated release pipelines in LBG:

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD, GitOps
• NexusIQ, SonarQube
• Expert in Docker & Kubernetes. Bonus if you are CKAD certified.
• Hands on Cloud experience with both public Cloud experience - ideally with GCP, Azure
• Knowledge of fundamentals cloud architecture and security concepts
• Knowledge of tools for cloud infra as code, specifically Terraform.
• Certifications are a welcome plus:

• Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage, e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef
• A \xe2\x80\x9ccan-do\xe2\x80\x9d attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects, and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle.
• Familiarity with agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (TDD, BDD, Selenium)

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we\xe2\x80\x99re 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\xe2\x80\x99re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too\xe2\x80\xa6

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll need -

We believe that people don\'t fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone\'s individual skills, experience, and knowledge \xe2\x80\x94 it\'s what makes you amazing!

As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated core experience in at least one of:

• Public cloud experience (utilising Terraform) with a similar sized organisation.
• Kubernetes
• Docker
• Java, Golang & JavaScript
• Bash
• Experience in a similar sized company utilising DevOps practices in the Cloud.

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\xe2\x80\x99s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We\xe2\x80\x99re disability confident. So, if you\xe2\x80\x99d 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\xe2\x80\x99 holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that\xe2\x80\x99s 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\xe2\x80\x99re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Lloyds Banking Group