DevOps Engineer - Enterprise

Yorkshire Building Society; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider in Bradford is seeking four DevOps Engineers to join their Enterprise Engineering team. This hybrid role involves enhancing digital applications, supporting transaction monitoring and authentication journeys, and implementing DevOps best practices. Ideal candidates will have a strong engineering background and familiarity with automation, CI/CD processes, and modern monitoring tools. The company offers a range of benefits including flexible working hours, generous holidays, and a strong commitment to inclusivity.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Bonus up to 15%

Pension contribution of up to 11%

Private medical insurance

Access to health benefits and discounts

Qualifications

• Experience with digital transformation.
• Track record of continuous improvement.
• Understanding of Agile/DevOps methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Implement enhancements for MTTD and MTTR.
• Automate CI/CD and non-functional testing.
• Oversee SLOs and identify service hotspots.
• Participate in production support rota.
• Automate manual tasks to operate the product.
• Integrate security testing into the deployment pipeline.

Skills

Development or platform engineering background

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Pipelines

Scripting and automation (Python, bash)

Modern monitoring skills (Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace)

Knowledge of networks and routing

Knowledge of Digital technologies (APIs, services, containers)

Agile/DevOps methodologies

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

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We are excited to offer a superb opportunity for four new DevOps Engineers to join our expanding Enterprise Engineering team sat within Change Delivery. Our growing DevOps team is focused on supporting platforms, tooling, and applications both in delivery and production, as well as working alongside our software development engineering teams to enable change and support YBS’s Enterprise services. These exciting new roles will work on supporting applications that underpin YBS’s Transaction Monitoring capability and digital authentication journeys amongst others.

This is a hybrid role; with remote working and some onsite presence in our Bradford offices.

About the role

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to be a hands-on engineer tasked with solving challenges to continually improve the 4-key DevOps measures: lead-time, deployment-frequency, mean-time-to-recover and change-failure-rate. This is achieved through the following deliverables -

• Monitoring & Alerting: implementing continued enhancements to drive improvements for MTTD and MTTR
• Automating Release Management: automating (CI/CD), integrating and automating non-functional testing to accelerate deployment-frequency and lead-time
• Monitoring Error Budgets: operational oversight of SLOs and identifying actions to maintain. Independently identify service hotspots and trends, proposing strategies to improve
• Operational Service: part of production support rota for the tribe, alongside development engineers. Contributing to blameless post-mortems and implementing root cause fixes.
• Automating Toil: remove the manual tasks required to operate the product
• DevSecOps Champion: automate and integrate security testing into the deployment pipeline and vulnerability management
• Provide Segregation & Assurance: the independence of the role allows to take on tasks where segregation is required (e.g. the final deployment to production) and provide the necessary oversight on release quality

About you

What will you bring to the role?

• A development or platform engineering background
• Knowledge and/ or experience of digital transformation
• Experience of technical skills in some of the following – Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Pipelines – tools such as Jenkins, GitHub and Gitlab CI/CDScripting and automation capabilities (e.g., Python, bash)Modern monitoring skills and best practices using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and DynatraceKnowledge of networks and routingKnowledge of Digital focused technologies (Digital platforms, Native apps, API, services and containers)
• A track record of continuous improvement including challenging and developing both yourself and the team
• Knowledge and understanding of Agile/DevOps software development methodologies

About us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.