DevOps Engineer

End date

Monday 29 April 2024

Salary range

£66,861 - £74,290

We support agile working

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Agile Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job description

About this opportunity

We're looking for a driven DevOps Engineer who can help us deliver exciting customer driven solutions. In our DevOps team, we lead the way in defining the best of new technology offerings, working closely with our Engineering Leads to collectively drive the tooling agenda whilst balancing the requirements of the UKs leading retail bank. The ultimate measure of success for us is leveraging these best of breed software and platform solutions so that we can continuously improve how we deliver market leading applications for our customers.

You'll be presented with technical challenges on a scale unmatched in other industry sectors, but with this also the satisfaction of knowing your expertise will be making a difference to millions of customers. There really is no such thing as a typical day as a DevOps Engineer in our team!

As a DevOps Engineer, you'll:

• It's a very hands-on role, with your time spread among short term support-related tasks, longer-term initiatives, problem-solving, optimising, forecasting, planning and personal development, as well as leading others.
• Collaborate with Engineering teams across various DevOps tooling in their relevant technology area to develop effective solutions.
• Take ownership of specific problems to deliver customer focused outcomes.
• Contribute to DevOps strategy both internally and externally to the division.
• Participating in the DevOps Guild to advance the capabilities and awareness of DevOps across the Payments Services Platform.

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll need:

• Detailed knowledge of DevOps tooling. This will involve defining and delivering to the overall strategy of the Group.
• A deep and proven understanding of GIT, source code management and managing change.
• An excellent hands-on experience of the entire pipeline and supporting tooling, Git, Nexus, Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, Shell scripting, Python, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes\Rancher or OpenShift
• Excellent knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and delivery for fast and secure route to live
• Excellent communication & teamwork skills which you can use to build relationships, work efficiently with others across a variety of domains, fields and locations, but also be able to work autonomously and proactively.
• Passion for technology and its application to real-world problems, such as software automation and delivery.

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Working knowledge of Jira
• Plus technical understanding of Spring boot, Maven, JSON, Kafka/WMQ, REST APIs, Database SQL.

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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.