DevOps Engineer

JOB TITLE: Devops Engineer

SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh or Leeds

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time at our location listed above.

About this opportunity

This is an excellent opportunity helping to deliver exciting customer outcomes, within our industry leading z Mainframe Lab DevOps team. We are looking for suitable candidates who can help us evolve the engineering experience on the platform, bringing in new technology, e.g. OpenShift, and to continue accelerating our adoption journey of the Group’s strategic pipelines, tooling, services and working practices that accelerate the flow of software development and infrastructure as code.

With our breadth, reach and diversity, we can offer excellent opportunities for career growth and development. And we're looking for people who can seize those opportunities; you'll get plenty of support but it's about taking the initiative, building relationships and making it happen. Do this and you can help us make a positive difference to our customers, our colleagues and our communities.

We’re seeking a collaborative individual who thrives in cross-functional environments and values diverse perspectives. You should be passionate about technology and its potential to solve real-world challenges. We value individuals who are confident in sharing their ideas, yet open-minded and pragmatic enough to adapt their views when needed.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Engineering Lead, Infrastructure Lead, Quality and Software Engineers to ensure that the Software Delivery Lifecycle is automated via the use of DevOps pipelines, tooling and automation.

• Leverage GIS DevOps tooling and service to ensure strategic alignment across the Group.

• Own the stability of build pipelines and environment automation. Work collectively across the team to ensure that any automation is robust and scalable.

• Participate in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning and commit to clear, achievable goals.

• Participate in Technical Communities to keep abreast of the evolution of our roadmaps for DevOps.

• Continuously improve technical and agile skills through on-the-job learning and training opportunities. Stay up to date with emerging technologies and industry trends. Seek feedback and actively work on improving coding and problem-solving skills.

• Taking ownership of specific problems and delivering customer focused outcomes

• Be an ambassador for the z DevOps brand both internally and externally

It is essential that you bring the right mind-set to the role. We understand in such a diverse and disparate world no one person can be an expert in all aspects of all DevOps tooling. If you have the right technical background, a willingness to be part of a team dedicated to transforming the landscape and are willing to develop yourself then we’re keen to hear from you.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re 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’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you’ll need

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail

• Excellent communication and teamwork abilities

• Experience with Git for version control

• Exposure to CI/CD pipelines for automating builds or deployments

In addition, any experience of these would be useful

• Technical experience of working on the z platform, e.g. COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL & Endevor

• Technical experience of working with DevOps tooling such as CI/CD technologies (Jenkins/Harness/DevOps Deploy), Containerisation (Docker/Kubernetes/etc.), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Chef/Puppet/Ansible)

• Solid core OS level skills (e.g. UNIX/LINUX/Windows/ZOS) with supporting industry standard scripting skills

• Understanding of the end-to-end principles and concepts of DevOps and uses tools in assigned work. Identifies gaps in the team DevOps pipelines and drives improvements needed through security user stories/Epics.

• The ability to use appropriate techniques for managing artifacts that require version control (including application source code, application configuration, scripts, etc.) and identifying what should not be in a source code system (including keys, secrets, binary artifacts, etc.). Techniques to include branching strategies, branch protection, PR event automation, etc.

• The ability to design, implement and manage application pipelines using industry standard orchestration technologies, e.g. Jenkins, Azure DevOps Harness, Tekton, GitHub Actions including both Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.
 

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• Up to 28 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.