Job Description

Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Salary: \xc2\xa345,054 - \xc2\xa350,060
Location: Manchester
Hours: (Full time / Part Time)
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office.

About us

We\'re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we\'re shaping finance for good. We\'re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

The Customer Contacts lab supports the banks telephony channel. Telephony is a critical channel supporting around 110million call per year. At times of need customers pick up the phone and the lab is responsible for ensuring the technology is in place to support them.

The successful candidate will join the Next Generation Contact Centre team who are re-architecting the legacy telephony applications to use modern engineering standards by re-writing our telephony application logic as containerised RESTful microservices, ensuring the channel becomes evergreen and can continue to evolve.

This role will be pivotal in building and delivering the development ecosystem, with DevOps best practices, and enabling product development teams in the Lab to deliver changes incrementally and continuously to customers.

You\'ll apply technical skills and experience to deliver automated pipelines with security, risk, and quality controls.

Take ownership of specific problems and deliver customer focused outcomes.

Work in cross functional environments by working closely with software engineers, quality and security engineers.

Work on a platform that has millions of active users, and regularly deliver new changes into customer hands.

Enable the engineers to build diverse skills and deliver high quality pipelines in an agile environment.

Be a team player who can build relationships and work productively with other teams across a variety of domains.

What you\'ll need

Hands on experience with infrastructure as code i.e., Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible

A strong DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering background and knowledge of DevOps best practices

Experience in building CI/CD pipelines to deliver changes incrementally to production

Experienced in day-to-day administration of Deploy and Release activities

Strong familiarity with source code repositories particularly Git

Experience of build and deployment tools, e.g., Maven/Gradle, Jenkins2/Circle CI, Tekton, ArgoCD, Nexus, Sonar

Experience of containers, orchestration, and service mesh, e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Istio

And any experience of these would be really useful

Interests in different programming languages and technologies

Hybrid cloud deployments

Exposure and/or Experience with cloud technologies Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or others (AWS, ICP/OCP, Azure)

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

28 days\' holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

Lloyds Banking Group