DevOps Engineering Lead

JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineering Lead

SALARY: £86,965.00 - £112,541.00 GBP

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full time

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

About this opportunity

Lloyds Bank are on a mission to help Britain Prosper, and we need your help in achieving our goals. We are revolutionising our technology, empowering our engineers and rapidly transforming our agile working methods. Come. Join us. Be part of building the Bank of the Future!
A great opportunity has arisen within the Mass Affluent Platform for an DevOps Engineering Lead to work with an amazing team building propositions for our Mass Affluent Digital Proposition.
As the DevOps Engineering Lead you'll be leading our teams of DevOps engineers to build and operate our infrastructure on GCP, supporting our feature teams to solve their infrastructure challenges, and helping to ensure we continue to drive automations in all of our CI/CD pipelines. You'll actively promote a culture of DevOps within the Lab and raise awareness of "what is possible" and drive the change to get us there.
Line management will be a key part of this role, helping the DevOps engineers in the teams to grow and develop. You'll also help bring DevOps practices and culture to the wider Platform environment, looking for opportunities to improve and transform the technology we use to build our applications.

What do we do in Mass Affluent?
A major part of the Group strategy to grow in the mass affluent market and the new Mass Affluent team are focussed on designing a new digitally led proposition for this segment of customers.
We have close to three million Mass Affluent customers, and we are working hard to create a personalised and tailored offering to ensure a beautiful banking experience. We want to provide a seamless digital experience, with the right products and services at our customers' fingertips, but our face-to-face, telephone and secure messaging remain a vital part of our service.

Why should you join us?
Get a rare and exciting opportunity to be part of something that, as we look back in four of five years, you could say 'you were there.' The chance to be integral to new business area and a new proposition that will better serve a set of customers we have today.
We are a flexible, and fast-moving team that works hard as we challenge our own thinking, collaborate with multiple platforms, and innovate as we work towards our stretching growth ambitions.
Diverse in our nature, we are a group of Product Owners, Engineers, Project Managers, Business Analysts, Architects, (and other specialist roles), working flexibly, and located across several key hubs including Leeds and Bristol. We work hard, but we also value team socials and face-to-face get togethers to ensure we stay connected.
We understand not everyone fits neatly into one job profile, and we are committed to exploring your aspirations and interests and supporting you to be your best through exposing you to our wide and varied portfolio of delivery.

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:

You'll be someone who can contribute to the technical leadership team's work of driving the technology and future of the platform. You have technical know-how from building and operating platform infrastructure, automating build and test process through CI/CD pipelines and you'll love mentoring and educating less experienced DevOps engineers.

We're looking for a great candidate who can demonstrate:

• an experienced DevOps Engineering Lead background with a recent focus on Kubernetes platforms. microservices, and containerisation
• evidence of bringing new technologies and ways of working to how your organisation delivers great applications.
• experience in end-to-end software delivery using Agile methodologies and DevOps tooling.
• technical know-how in cloud engineering and architecture, preferably in GCP
• the ability to build strong relationships and demonstrate a passion for solving real-world problems with data and technology.
• great mentoring/coaching skills and a real joy for seeing people develop & succeed.

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.