Senior Devops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £81,999 - £91,110

Location: London

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity: A great opportunity has arisen within the Payments Platform for a DevOps Engineer! As a DevOps Engineer in our Instant Payments lab, 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.

What you'll do:

• You have a 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'll be presented with technical challenges on a scale unmatched in other industry sectors, but with this also the satisfaction of knowing your expertise will be making a difference to millions of customers. It's a very hands-on role, with your time spread among short term support-related tasks, longer-term initiatives and personal development.
• You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

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

• Jenkins, Groovy, GitHub, Harness, ArgoCD, GitOps.
• NexusIQ, Aquasec, SonarQube.
• Docker & Kubernetes.
• CI/CD pipelines to both public and private Cloud - Google Cloud and Open Shift Cloud.
• Programming experience (Java, Spring boot, Python, ShellScripting).

What you'll need:

• Cloud/ DevOps experience: Public cloud experience (utilising Terraform), experience in DevOps practices in the Cloud.
• Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation.
• Containerisation: Kubernetes and Docker and Containerised Microservices.
• Programming/Scripting in Java, Spring Boot, Bash, Groovy.
• Source code repositories, particularly Git.
• Software Development Process: Entire project life cycle experience (from beginning to end) and including: Continuous integration, Automated deployments, Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven).

In addition, any of the below, would also be beneficial:

• Knowledge of fundamentals cloud architecture and security concepts.
• Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage, e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef.
• Event based architecture knowledge of Kafka, Global K tables, KStreams.

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

Want to do amazing work, that's 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're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.