DevOps Engineer - Enterprise - Yorkshire Building Society

OpenTalent; Bradford; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid role (remote)

Bradford office onsite

Job summary

OpenTalent is recruiting two DevOps Engineers to join our Enterprise Engineering team within Change Delivery. The role is hybrid with some Bradford onsite presence and remote work options across the UK.

You will work on supporting platforms, tooling and applications in delivery and production, collaborating with software development teams to enable change and support enterprise services.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Familiar with digital transformation initiatives.
• Knowledge of monitoring and SRE practices is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Collaborate with delivery and production teams to enable change.
• Contribute to production support and incident response.
• Automate toil and improve deployment frequency and MTTR.
• Integrate security testing into pipelines and vulnerability management.
• Provide oversight on release quality where required.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Python

Shell scripting

Monitoring

Jenkins

Grafana

Prometheus

Dynatrace

GitHub Actions

Tools

GitHub

GitLab CI/CD

Job description

We are excited to offer a superb opportunity for two 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/CD
• Scripting and automation capabilities (e.g., Python, bash)
• Modern monitoring skills and best practices using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace
• Knowledge of networks and routing
• Knowledge 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

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