Senior DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Halifax; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer in Halifax. The role involves improving test environments, implementing best practices, and driving automation in CI/CD pipelines. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience with GIT, Jenkins, and cloud technologies. The position offers a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and a generous benefits package including a pension plan, performance bonuses, and 30 days of holiday.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave

Qualifications

• Experience with GIT / GITHUB enterprise.
• Ability to understand and write Jenkins files.
• Familiarity with Urban Code Deploy and/or Chef.
• Knowledge of scripting languages.
• Cloud Associate accreditation or progress towards it.

Responsibilities

• Assess current Programmes/Projects ways of working.
• Provide advice for process improvements.
• Assist in acquiring infrastructure and applications.
• Document and upskill area for self-sufficiency.

Skills

GIT / GITHUB enterprise

Jenkins Pipelines

Urban Code Deploy

Nexus Repository

Selenium

Scripting

Sonacube

Cloud Associate accreditation

Job description

Overview

JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S): Halifax

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Halifax office.

About this opportunity

CIO Enabling Services provides Test Environment Services to deliver and continuously improve test environment engineering through innovation and automation, driving excellence in test environments and test data provisioning.

Supporting the whole of LBG with an expertise in Major Programmes, our team provides end to end testing environments using both physical and cloud-based solutions. With an eye on virtualisation and self-service the team is developing a range of service offerings to help speed up provisioning of environments to support fast paced change.

Joining us as a DevOps Engineer specialising in Test Environment Services you'll play a pivotal role within the area. You'll help drive technical delivery by providing effective coordination and integration of various technical components that requires cross-cutting engagement across multiple Labs and/or third parties to deliver all aspects of test environment solutions.

You'll get to work closely with the various engineering roles within test environment services ensuring you contribute to the prioritisation of your deliverables, as well as other members of the team such as the environment specialists around key dependencies and engineering leads to ensure we do the right thing for our customers.

Responsibilities

• You'll assess current Programmes/Projects ways of working in relation to;

  • Develop / Deploy / Test

  • Understand how long the speed to market is, e.g. average time from checking in code to deployment in live.

  • Understand and assess any difficulties or bottle necks and what can be done to alleviate them by automation.

  • Discover repeatable manual process, can they be automated?

  • Assess current CI/CD pipelines.

• You'll be providing advice and direction for process improvements and implementation of best practices:

  • Understand current Dev Ops best practices.

  • Produce a report detailing the areas of improvement.

  • Estimate time and effort to implement remedial work.

  • Detail required applications/infrastructure.

  • Ensure suggested remedial work in line with best practices.

• Provide Programme/Project assistance on tooling recommendations, infrastructure, installations or configurations:

  • Assist in acquiring any infrastructure and/or installation and configuration of required applications.

  • Design and set up Dev Ops intervention, creating frameworks and CI/CD pipeline.

  • Work with QA to build and automated tests and integrate them into a CI pipeline.

  • Document and upskill area to be self-sufficient moving forward.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What you'll need

• What we need from you - core skills required / experience with the following:

• GIT / GITHUB enterprise

• Jenkins Pipelines: including the ability to understand and write Jenkins files.

• Urban Code Deploy and/or Chef

• Nexus Repository

• Selenium

• Scripting

• Sonacube

• Cloud Associate accreditation or well on the way towards obtaining

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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