JOB TITLE: Cloud DevOps Lead Engineer
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £100,657 - £118,420 for London and £86,964 - £102,310 for outside of London
LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh and London
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above.
Purpose of the role
We're seeking a highly qualified, motivated and innovative hands-on DevOps Engineer to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our platform. You'll be responsible for designing and implementing complex systems, solving problems, and mentoring and line managing junior Engineers. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in DevOps, specifically Cloud focused, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll be a technical inspiring senior manager and driving the delivery of the next generation technical platform for the organisation. Our team The Cloud Platform team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for a Lead Cloud Engineer to Join our Cloud DevOps lab within the Cloud Platform.
The day to day
- Architecturally lead large scale, high impact, projects providing Cloud Security consultancy
- Be proficient in leading technical conversations with customers of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Domain eExperts
- An expert collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams
- Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering multiple security and technical topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling
- Strong commercial awareness and excellent eye for business
- Ability to write Security Standards, Policies, Designs and other such collateral
- Ability to be hands-on to perform PoCs to better understand products and assist them to design and review
Essential skills & main accountabilities
- Detailed knowledge of and experience in DevOps/Continuous delivery and standard methodoliges, to be able to confidently design and implement solutions.
- Expertise in using DevSecOps tools and frameworks for handling infrastructure as code (IaC), Terraform.
- Expertise in Shell Scripting, YAML templates
- Strong understanding and expertise using configuration management and CI/CD automation practices and tools Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, Gradle, Nexus, Maven, Git
- Expertise in source code management, branching and deployment strategies.
- Cloud technologies and infrastructure : Hands-on experience with at least one of the 3 main cloud providers Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS) is needed.
- Experience with cloud services like container registry, secret management, networking.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
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. If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, just let us know.
If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you.
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
Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.