DevOps Engineer Edinburgh, Scotland
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Edinburgh, Scotland
66861 - 74290 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Wednesday 16 August 2023
Salary Range
£66,861 - £74,290Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer - PaymentsSALARY: £66,861 - £81,719
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
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 one of our office sites
Are you an experienced DevOps Engineer looking for an amazing career opportunity to help shape the future of Domestic Payments, using pioneering technology, cloud hosting, developing critical payments infrastructure, helping us navigate the regulatory landscape and define our products of the future?
In the Domestic Payments Lab, we’re responsible for over 4bn UK electronic Payments including Faster Payments, Cheque Clearing, BACS, Cash distribution and more. The changes we deliver must work first time, every time, 24 hours per day 7 days per week with a budget of over £40m. The team works closely with industry groups and regulators to protect the UK, the Bank and customers.
Job Description
About this opportunity
We're looking for a driven DevOps Engineer who can help us deliver exciting customer driven solutions. In our DevOps team, we lead the way in defining the best of new technology offerings, working closely with our Engineering Leads to collectively drive the tooling agenda whilst balancing the requirements of the UKs leading retail bank. The ultimate measure of success for us is leveraging these best of breed software and platform solutions so that we can continuously improve how we deliver market leading applications for our customers.
You’ll be presented with technical challenges on a scale unmatched in other industry sectors, but with this also the satisfaction of knowing your expertise will be making a difference to millions of customers. There really is no such thing as a typical day as a DevOps Engineer in our team!
As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll:
- It’s a very hands-on role, with your time spread among short term support-related tasks, longer-term initiatives, problem-solving, optimising, forecasting, planning and personal development, as well as leading others.
- Collaborate with Engineering teams across various DevOps tooling in their relevant technology area to develop effective solutions.
- Take ownership of specific problems to deliver customer focused outcomes.
- Contribute to DevOps strategy both internally and externally to the division.
- Participating in the DevOps Guild to advance the capabilities and awareness of DevOps across the Payments Services Platform.
We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.
What you’ll need:
- Detailed knowledge of DevOps tooling. This will involve defining and delivering to the overall strategy of the Group.
- A deep and proven understanding of GIT, source code management and managing change.
- An excellent hands-on experience of the entire pipeline and supporting tooling, Git, Nexus, Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, Shell scripting, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes\Rancher or OpenShift
- Excellent knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and delivery for fast and secure route to live
- Excellent communication & teamwork skills which you can use to build relationships, work efficiently with others across a variety of domains, fields and locations, but also be able to work autonomously and proactively.
- Passion for technology and its application to real-world problems, such as software automation and delivery.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
- Working knowledge of Jira
- Plus technical understanding of Spring boot, Maven, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL.
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
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.
