Junior Software Engineer- Manchester

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in Manchester seeks a Junior Software Engineer to enhance cloud-based products and services. The ideal candidate should be self-motivated, possess strong knowledge in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and have a passion for automation. This role offers hybrid working, a generous benefits package, and opportunities for personal development.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

24 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Be able to learn quickly on the job while building new skills.
• Ensure all code adheres to security standards and best practices.
• Experience in agile methodologies and tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop features for existing products.
• Write and review secure Infrastructure as Code.
• Support existing products, including incidents.
• Automate processes and identify product improvements.

Skills

Agile development methods

DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform

GitHub

Terraform

Jira

Confluence

Job description

• JOB TITLE: Junior Software Engineer
• SALARY: 35,340
• LOCATION(S): Manchester
• HOURS: Full- time - 35 hours a week.
• 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 modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

We're particularly interested in people with experience in one or more of the following: Azure WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Google Model Armor, VPCSC, Azure Firewall, Google VPC Firewall, Azure NGFW, Google Cloud NGFW, GitHub, Terraform, Azure Policy, Google Organization Policy.

Your role as a Junior Software Engineer is to learn on the job and work collaboratively with the other Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers within the Network and Perimeter Security team and the wider organisation. Your responsibilities will include:

• You'll join a collaborative, agile team that is product focused. You'll design and develop features and improvements to our existing products and services. We provide BAU support as well as an on call rota.
• Write and review Infrastructure as Code ensuring it has been written securely
• Operationally support existing products including incidents and inbound customer requests
• Develop and test new features for existing products
• Manage work via Jira tickets
• Automate and utilise AI to drive efficient and cost-effective products for our customers
• Identify opportunities for improvements in our products and services
• Support planning activities and product roadmaps
• Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive

What you'll need

• Self-starter who is able to learn quickly on the job whilst building new skills and technological knowledge
• Ensure that any code or solutions are built in line with our security standards and industry best practice
• Ability to listen and reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion
• Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners
• Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve
• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of working as part of an agile team
• Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
• Be passionate about automating everything
• Be industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team

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
• 24 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.

(Please note our roles can generate a considerable amount of interest and can close early so don't miss out on this opportunity to apply today.)