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Senior DevOps Engineer

Halifax
4 months ago
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End Date

Thursday 13 February 2025

Salary Range

£70,929 - £78,810

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Devops Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S): 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 our locations.

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.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you will provide DevOps and technical solutions to ensure effective environment provisioning and in-house development for the Environment Self Service Portal. You will work closely with various engineering roles within test environment services, contributing to the prioritization of deliverables and collaborating with environment specialists and engineering leads to ensure we do the right thing for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

Lead and manage squad workload and day-to-day tasks, driving priorities on delivery.

Serve as the point of escalation for the squad and manage stakeholders appropriately.

Report regular progress and updates to the leadership team.

Understand risk and ensure safe yet efficient delivery.

Build confidence within the team and with stakeholders.

Collaborate with other Engineers across the team and broader Core Platform Lab.

Ensure tight budget controls while maintaining quality delivery.

Bring passion and an open mind to develop new ways of doing things while enhancing your skills and experience.

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

Hands-on engineering skills and the ability to dive into technology.

Experience in creating and integrating Mainframe environments with modern infrastructure.

Strong knowledge of relational and non-relational databases (PostgreSQL and MongoDB).

Experience in designing and building microservices, preferably on Python web frameworks (Flask, Django, FastAPI).

Strong technical background with experience in multi-platform environments, environment strategies, and designing Route to Live solutions.

Understanding of the group's architecture and applications.

Knowledge of environment practices on cloud and the group's Cloud strategy.

Experience with DevOps toolsets and the group's DevOps/Cloud strategy.

Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build working relationships up to director level.

Ability to work independently, take ownership, and use initiative.

Cloud Accreditation (GCP, Azure, IBM) is desirable.

Technical Skills:

GIT / GITHUB enterprise

Jenkins Pipelines (Groovy)

Urban Code Deploy, Ansible, Chef

Nexus Repository

Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace, ELK

Aquasec, Nexus IQ

Hashicorp Vault, Terraform

Python, Flask, FastAPI

Selenium, Playwright

Scripting

SonarQube

Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence)

Kubernetes, OCP, ArgoCD, Docker, Istio, GKE

GCP, Azure, Kyndryl

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.

30 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.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference

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