Devops Engineer

JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £68,202-£75,780 per annum (plus benefits)

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in Bristol office site

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a DevOps Engineer.

As a DevOps Engineer in our central team, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing, and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions.

A DevOps is not a "thing you do" but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. We want to see placement of these skills in context - why they matter, what value they bring, how to get the most from them, how to evolve them and spread them further within the organisation.
It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate.

Here's where you'll make a difference:

You have can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

Tools we commonly used to build automated release pipelines in LBG:

• Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, ArgoCD, GitOps

• NexusIQ, SonarQube

• Expert in Docker & Kubernetes. Bonus if you are CKAD certified.

• Hands on Cloud experience with both public Cloud experience - ideally with GCP, Azure

ABOUT US

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…

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you amazing!

As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated core, hands-on experience the below:

Cloud/DevOps experience

• Public cloud experience (utilising Terraform) with a similar sized organisation

• Experience in a similar sized company utilising DevOps practices in the Cloud

• Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation.

Containerisation

• Kubernetes and Docker

Programming/Scripting in:

• Java, Golang & JavaScript and/or

• Bash

Source code repositories

• Particularly Git

Software Development Life Cycle

• Full project life cycle experience (from inception through to production) and including: Continuous integration, Automated deployments, Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven, nm.)

In addition, any of the below, would also be beneficial:

• Knowledge of fundamentals cloud architecture and security concepts

• Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage, e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef

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!

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