Lead DevOps Engineer (81263)

JOB TITLE: Lead DevOps Engineer

LOCATION: Newport

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office

Pay Range: £90,440 - £106,400

WHY LLOYDS BANKING GROUP? 

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.   

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. We'll take your personal and professional development seriously and provide opportunity to shape the financial services of the future.  

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY  

Are you ready to join our Transport Platform team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation? 

As an DevOps Engineering Lead, you’ll be accountable for all facets of engineering (across both build and support) across multiple engineering teams within the Lab, working alongside the Product Owner to achieve business and technology outcomes whilst retaining a deep focus on service. 

WHERE YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE 

You should feel excited by the prospect of making lasting positive impact through: 

• Leading teams of engineers to design, develop and integrate software features to achieve their goals. Aligning team goals with the needs of the broader lab, platform and group. 

• Collaborating with the Product Owner and Customer Journey Manager to deliver features on the product roadmaps, manage down technical debt, maintain the health of production instances and to create the space to develop the skills needed by the target technology architecture.   

• Engineering solutions to be reliable, scalable, performant, and secure through adequate solution design, utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns. Engage Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects and Technical Communities where needed to drive solution reuse, avoid complexity and creation of point solutions. 

• Seeking to adopt the groups tooling capabilities as these mature to access development practice gains through standardised automation in relation to pace, quality and safety. 

• Seeking to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, foster collective responsibility of ceremonies, escalate impediments accordingly and to manage external dependencies adequately.  

• Lean-in and take a hands-on ownership for unblocking technical challenges and forward look to prove out new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use within the team, lab or platform. Where needed, act as a Chapter Lead to drive cross platform strategies and solutions.  

• Collaborate with Agility Leads to advance the effectiveness of the teams by installing change that increases the cadence of delivery, reduces cost ownership, and persists high quality of change. Champion the benefits of a single common framework over team specific practices. 

• Install active application custodianship to manage incidents, compliance findings, risks and running costs where it’s the right answer for the team to maintain production instances. Where it’s not, ensure performing teams are equipped to succeed. 

• Working to build a strong team by coaching, developing and mentoring engineers on how to achieve their team, technical and personal goals. Modelling group Values and accessing frameworks, learning collateral and early careers programmes to build rounded engineering capability within your teams. 

WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE: 

You will be able to demonstrate both business and technical leadership in the following areas: 

• Practical experience in providing engineering team oversight to develop strategic solutions to achieve business outcomes by anticipating issues, challenges, and opportunities. With experience of working in a complex systems architecture comprised of modern and legacy solutions, and inhouse and product solutions. 

• A depth of knowledge of leading modern engineering teams in an enterprise context. Managing risk, meeting security standards, and prioritising the need to maintain and protect service versus the need to transform capabilities and experiences. 

• A natural inquisitiveness to all facet’s technology and consideration as to how these can be applied to deliver improvements in customer journeys. With evidence of continuous learning, shown in usage of frameworks, practices and how they embed in an agile construct. 

• Authentically engage within teams to embed a true culture of collaboration and ownership within the team. To build high performing cross disciplinary teams where people take initiative and deliver on commitments. 

• Passionate about great engineering talent. Seeking to elevate and enable by utilising training programmes, targeted external recruitment, and leverage of early years programmes. 

• An ability to communicate complex messages and influence stakeholders in relation to progress, preferences and challenges. Utilising data and analytics to underpin the decisions that you make and explain the ‘why’. 
• This role includes a hands on technical element as well so a deep understanding of DevOps tools and technologies including Kubernetes, GCP, Jenkins, Node, Ansible and others is required

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.

• 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.