Senior DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Calderdale; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Halifax to design and implement DevOps pipelines. Responsibilities include ensuring service stability, mentoring team members, and driving automation. The ideal candidate will have cloud management experience and proficiency in tools like Terraform and Kubernetes. The role offers a hybrid working arrangement and a generous benefits package including a pension contribution and annual bonus.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Proficiency in managing and deploying applications on public cloud.
• Strong knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Experience with Helm for managing Kubernetes applications.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for DevOps implementations at a Feature team/Lab level.
• Drive automation of repetitive tasks.
• Mentor early career engineers to enhance their technical skills.

Skills

Public cloud management

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Kubernetes orchestration

Network segmentation

CI/CD tools

Information/network security principles

Scripting languages

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Spinnaker

HashiCorp Vault

Job description

Overview

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

Exciting opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join Smarter Journey as a Senior DevOps Engineer you'll hold accountability for design, implementation, maintenance and support of DevOps pipelines, tooling/automation at a Feature/Lab team level. This will include recommending the right pipeline and tooling choices appropriate for their Feature/Lab accountabilities, in line with Group Strategy.

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
• Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt
• 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
• 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).
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• 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.

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

• 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.