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JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer       

LOCATION(S): Halifax

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 our locations.

About this opportunity

CIO Enabling Services provides Test Environment Services to deliver and continuously improve test environment engineering through innovation and automation, driving excellence in test environments and test data provisioning. Supporting the whole of LBG with an expertise in Major Programmes, our team provides end to end testing environments using both physical and cloud-based solutions. With an eye on virtualisation and self-service the team is developing a range of service offerings to help speed up provisioning of environments to support fast paced change.

Joining us as a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll be leading a team(s) of Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Quality Engineers with a focus on Route to Live solutions.  Our primary aim is to support effective and efficient testing activities as we seek to innovate and improve environment provisioning and transition to new Cloud technologies.

Working with new Cloud technologies you will need a full understanding of the existing environments landscape, in particular the E2E and stand-alone mainframe test environments. You will be working on programmes driving future technology strategy for the group, focusing on cloud technologies, future methodologies, frameworks, toolsets and automation to ensure our position in the market remains strong through our ability to adapt with pace. We'll continually challenge you to identify and try innovative approaches and technical solutions alongside existing solutions, identifying the best way to achieve desired outcomes.

You'll inspire your team to embrace new technologies and new ways of working whilst driving their own development.

So, what would you be doing for us?

• Utilise your technical knowledge and experience in end-to-end, multi-platform test environments to help develop Route to Live solutions to best meet the needs of the whole group, in line with the Lloyds Banking Group strategy and Group Test Strategy, always seeking to improve efficiency and effectiveness through new tooling and ways of working.
• Help define the test environment strategy and implementation focused on solutions to help support the increased pace of change as we move to Cloud technologies.
• Help shape the strategy and direction of internal toolsets/products and their role in the wider group strategies and frameworks.
• Ensure tight budget controls and handle cost challenges to support the group's aims whilst maintaining quality delivery.
• Lead a team of Software Engineers, DevOps Engineers and Quality Engineers, supporting their development to ensure they are future ready and always learning.
• Manage risk, ensuring we take the right approach to deliver safely but with a drive for innovation.
• Bring flexibility being able to work in Scrum and Waterfall environments and everything in between
• More than anything you'll bring passion and an open mind to help us develop new ways of doing things whilst developing your own skills and experience.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

• Hands-on Engineering skills and the ability to get stuck into the technology
• A strong technical background with experience in multi-platform environments, environment strategies, designing Route to Live solutions, the provisioning and management of environments at various stages of the Route to Live
• A sound understanding of the group architecture and applications and the underpinning accountability model to ensure important business systems (IBS) are delivered in line with risk appetite
• Knowledge of environment practices on the cloud and the group’s Cloud strategy
• Understanding of legacy and current applications/domains used in key areas, e.g. Branch, Telephony, Digital, ATMs, Payments, Mortgages, Core Banking, Customer
• Understanding of evergreen in Public and Private Cloud
• Experience with DevOps tool sets and the group’s DevOps/Cloud strategy
• Experience with Mainframe Systems (zOS, CICS, DB2)
• Experience of Batch Management/Execution (OPC/ OPCON/ TWS/JCL)
• Experience with toolsets including Urban Code, Jenkins, CA Lisa, etc
• Logical and creative thinking skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to build working relationships up to director level
• Ability to work independently and to take ownership - and use own initiative

Any experience of these would be useful

• Cloud Accreditation (GCP, Azure, IBM) - or be working towards

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 for diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and create 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 include being able to 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.