Dev Ops - Vault - Everyday Banking Manchester, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Manchester, England
52912 - 66140 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Friday 19 May 2023
Salary Range
£52,912 - £66,140Agile Working Options
Job Description
DevOps Engineer - Vault - Everyday Banking Platform
Location: Manchester based with flexibility to work from home 2-3 days per week
Salary & Benefits: £61,176.00 - £71,411.00 GBP 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.
Who are Lloyds Banking Group?
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's leading digital bank and biggest mobile bank with nearly 14 million active online customers across our three main brands - including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland - as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country.
We're investing £3bn in our future - across platforms, people and data capabilities to truly become the best bank for customers, with unparalleled growth into areas such as Data Science, AI and Robotics. We're building the bank of the future, and we need your help.
About the team
We are on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.
You will be part of Everyday Banking in Consumer Relationships Platform working in the Vault Banking Products lab. The lab is focusing on building new core banking platform that will support servicing our customers through multiple channels and will enable the bank to create new innovative products for our customers using cutting edge cloud based technology platform.
About the role
As a Senior DevOps in our team, you will be:
- Working with the most modern technology including Google Cloud, Kubernetes, Kafka, Microservices and more
- Defining and establishing processes and tools to support new banking platform through pilot phases and go live
- Building and mentoring team to perform support of the new core banking platform
- Building, creating and supporting all environments including production hosting on container based cloud platforms
- Defining new deployment, recovery and resilience solutions including multi-region deployment
- Liaising and collaborating with other teams including security, cloud engineering and compliance to ensure guardrails are followed and contributed wherever needed
- Automating as much as possible of the building environments, monitoring and support function with the modern toolset and technologies to improve reliability and productivity
- Working in an agile environment, alongside colleagues from both LBG and third party companies, both on and off-shore
- Creating opportunities for your own learning and growth, as well as sharing finding with your peers
Who we're looking for...
The successful candidate for the Senior DevOps role will be able to demonstrate experience in supporting live platforms, ability to navigate a large organisation and liaise with other teams including infrastructure teams and third parties to investigate incidents, experience working with and building cloud and container based platforms and environments, ability to work independently and to mentor junior team members.
Familiarity with the following is additional bonus:
- Google Cloud (GCP)
- Kubernetes
- Thought Machine Vault
- Kafka
- Banking Platforms Support
- Network and Infrastructure
- Shell Scripting
- Python
- Expertise across security in all levels such as understanding network security, application security, authentication, encryption etc is a big bonus
We’re looking for enthusiastic, proactive and dedicated engineers who are keen to make a difference.
Personal skills we look for when we meet you include good interpersonal skills, ability to build good working relationships, logical & creative thinking skills. Being able to articulate the benefits or the work we do.
More than anything you'll bring passion, can do attitude and an open mind to help us develop new ways of doing things, whilst developing your own skills and experience.
We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We're proud of the industry recognition we have received including Stonewall Top 100 Employer, Top 50 Employer for Women and Top 30 Employer for Working Families.
We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.
Together we make it possible!
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.
