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DevOps Software Engineering Lead Lloyds Banking Group Edinburgh: 2 days per week in the office and the rest from home Salary & Benefits: £85,255 to £100,300 per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices & flexibility to suit your to ensure a good work-life balance. About us; If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose. We're the Business and Client Banking division, part of Commercial Banking and we work across several business platform areas. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services that millions of customers across the UK rely upon, day-to-day and especially in their time of need. What will you focus on in this role? You'll work in a hybrid role, leading the team, mentoring, coaching and developing staff, while the other half of the role will be acting as a very hands on Senior DevOps/ Site Reliability Engineer. The team focuses on Site Reliability, Platform, DevOps and Systems engineering, to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. Our engineers are passionate about ensuring the services, both internal and external have; extreme reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs, resiliency, architectural simplicity, as well as continually seeking to find improvements. You'll have the opportunity to deal with complex challenges, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity/ forensic analysis and various system design strategies to tackle those challenges. Much of your focus will be on optimising existing systems on Azure, building new Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions for services currently not running on Azure and eliminating manual work through automation wherever feasible. A further stage will be to apply those skills to GCP, but this is further down the road. Examples of activities might include some, but not all, of the following: Container Image Management & Security Service Mesh (Istio) Kubernetes Helmfile & Helm Charts Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates & Blueprints Azure DevOps CI/ CD Automation (Build & Release) Micro Services and Larger Application Service Deployments in K8s Automated Unit/ Integration/ Load/ Chaos Testing Performance Testing & Monitoring (Junit, Gatling, LoadRunner) Observability, Logging, Monitoring & Alerting (Azure Monitor & Dynatrace) Networks Azure API Gateway Management Azure IAM - Identity & Access Management Azure Policy Management & Cloud Security Cost Management This would be a great role if you want to help us mature our site reliability & DevOps practices to leave your mark! What do we need to see from applicants? We like people who come from diverse cultural backgrounds and are really looking for someone passionate, ambitious and has a good problem solving mindset. On your CV, we need to see the following to consider you for interview: Prior work experience in a technical leadership role. Career background as senior engineering level within the field of DevOps. Ideally you'll come from a software engineering style background and have moved into a site reliability or DevOps. Knowledge of Azure Cloud, or DevOps in another cloud platform. Very strong DevOps skill set with expertise in integration tools like Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Nexus, and Git Kubernetes & Istio (AKS an advantage) Experience programming in at least two (but not all!) of the following languages: Java, Groovy, Scala, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript, PowerShell or Bash/ Shell. 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. Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more. Lloyds Banking Group