Senior Gcp Cloud Devops Engineer

End Date
Wednesday 22 May 2024
Salary Range
£68,202 - £75,780
We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION: Manchester. Westminster House is located on Portland Street, with views over Piccadilly Gardens. A newly renovated office provides a gym, showers with changing facilities, event space and even a few walking desks. It is well connected by train, tram, and car with a number of nearby public car parks.
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
This is an excellent once in a career opportunity, to help shape your future as well as ours!
We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Native engineering Lab. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK.
In this role you will build scalable systems that will shape the future of our cloud infrastructure for our bank. You’ll also:

• Collaborate with multiple teams to build and maintain a highly resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure
  
• Design, develop, test, deploy, and automate robust and scalable services for both the internal engineering team and end users
  
• Establish and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and other use cases
  
• Debug, solve, and resolve system-level scale, performance, and automation issues
  
• Provide multi-tier support to both engineering and non-engineering customers
  
• Contribute to Github repositories and perform code reviews for team members
  
• Take ownership of projects, including analysis, design, development, deployment, and handover to end users
  
• Ensure solutions meet control and security requirements, improve platform stability, and allow for a higher volume of changes and activity.
  

Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you’ll need

• A proven track record in a DevOps or Cloud Engineering role, ideally with a mix of consumer and SaaS technology
  
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD, Harness, or Cloud Build to automate the build, test, and deployment of applications
  
• Hands-on experience writing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform
  
• Familiarity with Linux and scripting languages like Python or Bash
  
• Proven track record to take ownership of projects and responsibilities
  
• Proficiency with serverless application architectures, utilising capabilities such as Google Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, or AWS Lambda
  
• Experience using GitHub for source code management and performing code reviews
  

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience working with GCP/Azure cloud infrastructure and their various services.
  
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and Docker in a production environment.
  
• Experience working with Service Mesh (Istio/Anthos).
  
• Experience with high-traffic monitoring systems, using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic
  
• Understanding of industry authentication and authorization patterns.
  
• A keen eye for security and experience building secure systems, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning and identity and access management (IAM).
  

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 underrepresented 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
  

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.