Lead DevOps Engineer

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Job Description

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Edinburgh office

About this opportunity
Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We’re building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters. Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we’re there for customers in the moments that matter. We’re bold and we love to experiment. We’re not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive.

As part of our Edinburgh based team, you will lead one or more feature teams evolving our Digital Channel Servicing Lab offerings and services.

This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate who can provide hands-on engineering leadership and expertise to a full-stack mobile app team. You will be passionate and experienced in designing and delivering scalable web/mobile applications with key focus on our API ecosystem.

What will you be doing with us?

• As the SW Digital DevOps Lead, working with the Lab Engineering Lead and your peers, you will develop and execute a strategy to ensure the ongoing Resilience and Scaling of our Digital estate as we grow towards our target of 1M customers.
• Lead a team of SRE, DevOps and API engineers with a focus on resilience, scaling, predictable delivery and engineering excellence.
• Support the Release team to remove manual effort and toil from release processes – enabling more frequent release
• Collaborate with fellow leads, solution architects, UI/UX designers, and product owners to define roadmaps, technical designs and unblock delivery.
• Lead by example by being a hands-on contributor to the codebase and providing oversight and feedback via pull requests.
• Demonstrate leadership for microservices architecture and solution design with deep knowledge
• Provide line-management and personal development support for engineering team members

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.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience of modern application and software development approaches including automated testing, test driven development, continuous integration, pair programming, code review and version control
• Supporting the feature teams by building and managing pipelines / infrastructure / hosting on the Google Cloud Platform.
• Managing Kubernetes (GKE) clusters and configuring Helm templates
• Utilising a very strong DevOps skill set with expertise in tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, and Git.
• Scripting in several languages (e.g. Groovy, Python, JavaScript, PowerShell, or Bash/Shell)
• Configuring deployment management tools e.g. Terraform, Chef
• A “can-do” attitude, capability of bootstrapping projects and ability to effectively work with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle
• Deep expertise in microservices (ideally TypeScript/JavaScript-based)
• Firm grasp of testing methodologies (Unit testing, UI testing, automation testing)
• Experience designing and evolving API contracts

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience of working with Docker or other containerisation technologies
• Experience of successfully implementing and using CI/CD pipelines
• Display a DevOps mindset and ability to use tools like Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform

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 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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.