Job Description

End Date Friday 15 September 2023

Salary Range \xc2\xa361,911 - \xc2\xa368,790

Agile Working Options Flexibility in when hours are worked

Summary .



DevOps Engineer

Salary: \xc2\xa366-74k

Location: Leeds

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

Our team in Enterprise Risk Platform is passionate about crafting new services that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together inquisitive, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working

Working within the Prudential & Analytics lab, you will work with other quality and data engineers and work with Risk customers to design and deploy data solutions that underpin the financial stability of Lloyds Banking Group.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a team delivering regulatory and technology change!

We\'re seeking a role model to other engineers and help our journey in automation by providing technical expertise and insight, and to support customers by ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.

We\'re looking for someone who can help build out our automation capabilities and apply DevOps practices as we transition our processes to Google Cloud, working closely with quality engineers to do so. If you have experience in quickly grasping new technical challenges and have a good understanding of how to integrate pipelines to automate our software delivery and scripting processes, then you would be an asset to our team!

We are on a journey of moving our architecture from on-prem infrastructure to Cloud based technology and looking to apply DevOps practices to our processes where possible.

We work using agile delivery practices, so a self-led individual capable of accurately estimating and planning their own work would be valued highly.

About us

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK\xe2\x80\x99s leading bank with over 30m customers and its biggest digital bank, with over 13 million active online customers. We\xe2\x80\x99ve placed an ambitious transformation programme and a multi-channel approach to banking at the heart of our strategy to be the best bank for customers, backed by significant investment in our platforms and people over the next three years.

Our goal is to transform the experience for customers and colleagues through digitisation, data and analytics-driven approaches.

What You\xe2\x80\x99d Get Involved With:

• Helping to review our existing processes and migrating those to Google Cloud Platform
• Design, develop, maintain, and improve prudential processes, using CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, GIT, Nexus, Maven and others.
• Building pipelines for current and future analytics and reporting solutions
• Implement and exemplify engineering standards to act as a mentor to colleagues, using constructive feedback to create opportunities for learning.
• Work with the Product Owner and customers to understand, refine and prioritise items for the feature team backlog, using strong problem-solving skills and a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and clearly set-out the way forward.
• Strong Data Engineering background and good knowledge of waterfall and agile development practices.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll need

There is no requirement to have experience with every technology listed, and we would be happy to provide any development opportunities.

Passion for software and data engineering, adopting the mindset of a curious engineer

Experience with cloud technology, particularly Google Cloud Platform

Experience of CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, GIT, Nexus, Artifactory, Maven, Ant, Gradle, Puppet, Terraform, GCP Deployment Manager and others

Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, NewRelic, Splunk, Nagios, Prometheus, Kibana and others

Experience of continuous testing such as Selenium, Cucumber, SonarQube, Mocha, Zephyr, Veracode and others

Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non-technical people.

Other valuable skills you may bring:

• Experience of working within regulatory change would be advantageous, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes
• Experience of line management.

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%

Share schemes

Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounts on shopping

30 days\' holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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