Senior DevOps Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810 per annum
LOCATION: Halifax
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 one of our office sites

About this opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Strategic Enablement Lab Team within our Colleague Channels Platform. This is a greenfield engineering-focused lab team that was recently stood up to build new applications that benefit not just our 20 million mobile banking customers, but our internal teams as well. Alongside a collaborative team, you will work closely with product teams to support new applications on the route to go-live. 

The Senior DevOps Engineer will hold accountability for design, implementation, maintenance and support of DevOps pipelines, tooling/automation to shape how we deliver code to customers and colleagues. This will include recommending the right pipeline and tooling choices appropriate for their Strategic Enablement Lab Team accountabilities, in line with Lloyds Banking Group Strategy. 

Our Strategic Enablement Lab team is growing at an ambitious rate, which will create opportunities for the Senior DevOps Engineer to either grow into Line Management or enhance their DevOps skillset even further.

Day to day, you will  
•    Accountable for DevOps implementations at a Feature team/Lab level, ensuring all services/implementations are stable, scalable and performant.
•    Ensuring service levels are appropriate for all DevOps services consumed by the Feature/Lab team.
•    Spearhead and support the migrating all Group applications from Google 1.0 to Google 2.0.
•    Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt.
•    Application creation and application maintenance.
•    Adhering to Group policies and frameworks for build and release.
•    Drive relentless automation of repetitive and tedious tasks (TOIL).
•    Actively contribute to Platform level roadmaps around DevOps pipelines, tooling and technology.
•    Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, and by undertaking technical interviews to enable us to hire new engineers.
•    Liaise with Central DevOps function and build your network across the DevOps community within the Group.

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:  
•    Proficiency in managing and deploying applications on public cloud (GCP preferred; AWS, Azure).
•    Strong knowledge of Groovy programming language.
•    Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
•    Demonstrable knowledge of system administration (Ansible).
•    Strong knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes.
•    Understanding of network segmentation and subnetting.
•    Experience with Helm for managing Kubernetes applications.
•    Proficiency with multiple CI/CD tools (Jenkins/Spinnaker/Harness).
•    Knowledge of configuring and managing firewalls for security.
•    Strong understanding of information/network security principles and practices.
•    Experience with managing secrets and certificates, such as using HashiCorp Vault.
•    Ability to build rapport with internal stakeholders such as Product Owners.
•    Prior experience coaching and mentoring fellow team members for knowledge sharing.
•    Strong risk management skills. 

And any experience of these would be really useful: 
•    Understanding of service mesh concepts and implementations (Istio).
•    Experience with private and hybrid cloud environments.
•    Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.

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 performance-related bonus
• 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

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.