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Lloyds Banking Group is a leading financial services organization, and they are seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to join their team. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to design and develop software features, while also ensuring the stability and scalability of software solutions.


Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with the Product Owner, Customer Journey Manager, Quality Engineers and Business SMEs to design, develop and integrate software features on the product roadmaps that meets customer needs
  • Lead within the team across technology domains in areas of ambiguity, complexity and criticality to build flexible software solutions without over engineering
  • Define complete software solutions that are considered, pragmatic and clear; knowing when it's appropriate to make trade-offs against the target architecture
  • Engineer software solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable, and secure. Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt
  • Adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release
  • Participate in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, escalate impediments, to manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and demonstrate successes
  • Enable the team's effectiveness to advance by leading design discussions, creating a shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participating in code reviews, looking for reuse whilst being mindful of dependencies, identifying opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and setting appropriate team development practices
  • Partner with peers and senior software engineers to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery, and rollout of the technical roadmap
  • Promote common solutions and foster reuse to avoid complexity and duplicative waste
  • Seeking to adopt the groups tooling capabilities as these mature to access gains through automation in relation to pace, quality, and safety
  • Promote active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings
  • Elevate the security, maintenance, and resilience posture to foster investment in compliance findings, wastage, risks and gaps
  • Support building a strong team by mentoring existing engineers to advance their technical skills, and by undertaking technical interviews [paired-programming and system design etc] to enable us to hire new engineers with confidence
  • Invest to develop your technical and agile skills

Skills

  • Knowledge of Cloud, Containerisation and DevOps with depth of experience in the following technologies from a Full-Stack Engineer
  • Ansible product suite
  • Jenkins, Gerrit/GitLab
  • Nexus
  • Sonarqube
  • HAProxy
  • PostgreSQL
  • GitHub Enterprise
  • IBM Urbancode Deploy
  • Red Hat Linux
  • IBM Websphere
  • Liberty core and IBM IHS (Apache)
  • IBM cloud platform
  • OpenShift Cloud platform for Kubernetes containers
  • Certificate management
  • Linux SPNEGO
  • Kerberos
  • NodeJS/JavaScript
  • Strong understanding of an entire application stack, both breadth and depth, and an exposure to microservices technologies
  • A sound understanding of Git, source code management and managing change
  • Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD, Selenium) and automated System testing tools
  • Exceptional proficiency in JavaScript development and comprehensive in Knowledge of modern application frameworks specifically Nodejs. With an understanding of how to craft low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications
  • Technical understanding of the following: Cloud Databases (Structured and unstructured), Docker and Kubernetes
  • Experience working on public cloud environments e.g. Google GCP
  • Experience in acting as a coach or mentor to other team members in adoption of new ways of working or development of their technical capabilities

Benefits

  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  • An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
  • 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

Company Overview

  • Lloyds Banking Group is a financial services group focused on retail and commercial customers. It was founded in 1985, and is headquartered in London, England, GBR, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://www.lloydsbankinggroup.com.

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