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Job Description

DevOps Engineer (Financial Services)  

Lloyds Banking Group

London based (please apply if able to work in the London location 1-3 days per week as required, the rest from home)

Salary & Benefits: £61,176 to £80,294 (depending on experience) base salary, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution (when you put in 6%), 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.

We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working.  We aim to ensure you have a good work-life balance and positive mental health. 

Who are Lloyds Banking Group?

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s leading digital franchise, with over 13 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax, Bank of Scotland and Scottish Widows - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country.

Group Transformation is one of the Divisions which is leading the way through new ways of working to implement our strategy and react faster to market developments. Become part of our diverse team and you'll experience a rare opportunity to impact the lives of more than 26 million customers. We need people who can make this transformation a reality.

What Team does this sit within?

An exciting opportunity has arisen within Digital Platform where a new lab is being mobilized to provide an Identity and Authentication Platform as a service. The Platform will need to meet the Strong Customer Authentication regulatory commitments, enable innovation to help lead into the bank of the future and trailblaze within the Industry. The Platform will support and grow a wide range of authenticators to serve the Bank’s digital channels.

We are committed to delivering a world-class customer experience by building a state-of-the-art Identity & Authentication Platform and enabling our Customers to feel safe and secure with their data while accessing our multi-channel digital ecosystem.

What would I do as a DevOps Engineer?

We are looking for an experienced Devops engineer who is passionate about designing and delivering continuous delivery and has solid know-how of exploiting public cloud capabilities.

This role will be pivotal in building and delivering the development ecosystem with Devops best practices and enable product development teams in lab to deliver changes incrementally and continuously to customers.

We are looking for someone who is not afraid to dive deep into existing solutions and have the ability to bring new thinking, new ideas and continuous improvement to move to cloud native technologies.

We need someone who can challenge the status quo and push the boundaries to design something new by working closely with Devops COE and wider engineering community.

What are some of the specific activities I’ll be responsible for?

You’ll apply technical skills and experience to deliver automated pipelines with security, risk and quality controls.

• Take ownership of specific problems and deliver customer focused outcomes

• Work in cross functional environment by working closely with software engineers, quality engineers and security engineers.

• Work on platform that have millions of active users, and regularly deliver new changes into customer hands

• Enable the engineers to build diverse cloud skills and deliver high quality pipelines in an agile environment

• Be a team player who can build relationships and work productively with other teams across a variety of domains

What do we need to see from candidates who apply?

We like people who come from diverse industry and cultural background, however we'll need to see evidence of the following in your CV;

• Hand on experience with infrastructure as code i.e Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible

• A strong DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering background and knowledge of Devops practices

• Experience in building CI/CD pipelines to deliver changes incrementally in production

• Experienced in day-to-day administration of Deploy and Release activities

• Strong familiarity with source code repositories particularly Git

• Experience of build tools E.g one of following. Maven/Gradle, Jenkins2/Circle CI, Nexus, Sonar

• Experience of containers, orchestration and service mesh e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, Istio

What will you get in return?

On top of our team ethos we're genuine about both equal opportunity and our colleagues representing the communities we serve - developing and advancing the best in our people through personal development, training, qualifications and upskilling on the job.

Together we make it possible!

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain recover. 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'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.