Devops Engineer Team Manager

End Date
Sunday 26 May 2024
Salary Range
£85,255 - £100,300
We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer Team Manager
SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending a minimum two days per week, or 40% of our time in our Edinburgh office.
About this opportunity:
We're seeking to recruit a strong DevOps Engineer Team Manager within the Protection Platform to support our continued journey onto the OCP. This is a key time in our journey, and we need people who enjoy shaping the direction and success of a team whilst leading on delivering some initiatives. You will be responsible for driving the efforts & improvements to our OCP implementation, build, support and improve our tools for continuous integration, release management and provide support to feature teams implementing solutions across a wide range of digital services for Customers and Colleagues. You will manage people, supporting and growing their careers, and build teams that always deliver.
Come join LBG’s Protection Platform, where we help our customers plan for the unexpected events in life. Our life and critical illness products help thousands of people every year. Help us build on our brand new strategic architecture to help even more. We are a talented and welcoming team - come make us even better
About us
Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you’ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you’ll find them all here.
What you’ll need:
This is a hybrid role, you will need to be hands on but you will also be expected to spend up to half your time managing colleagues. Hence a passion for encouraging, mentoring & motivating those around you is essential.
Strong hands on expereince with the following:

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (RedHat OpenShift), Oracle Database and Oracle Middleware, Writing, executing and maintaining Ansible (Playbooks, Roles, etc.), Designing and writing Jenkins pipelines, Git, Docker.
  
• Very strong DevOps skill set with expertise in Continue Integration and Continue Deployments using tools like Jenkins, Spinnaker, Nexus, and Git.
  
• Experience working with package management tools like pnpm, npm, maven, gradle, helm...
  
• Experience working with agile development methods & tooling e.g. Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and working as part of an agile team.
  
• Strong knowledge of modern software development toolsets including Cloud hosting, Web App development, API’s, DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery.
  
• Experience in at least two (but not all!) of the following programming languages: JavaScript, Groovy, Scala, Python, PowerShell, or Bash/Shell, Java
  
• Provisioning components and services such as Helm Templates.
  
• The ability to liaise and collaborate with Delivery Managers, Software and Quality Engineers
  
• Knowledge and deployment of containerized applications/microservices architecture
  
• Able to take initiative and help upskill team members
  

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Understanding of security principles within cloud technologies.
  
• Experience of Urban Code Deploy.
  
• Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage. e.g., Terraform, Chef, Puppet.
  
• API management platform (Apigee, API Connect), Dynatrace, Adobe Analytics and General Data Analytics.
  
• Experience in public clouds (Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and/or AWS)
  

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
  

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you
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.