JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer - Payments Services Platform SALARY: £53,613 - £60,000 LOCATION(S): London HOURS: [Full-time] WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London Office About this opportunity… An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Payments Platform for a DevOps Engineer. As a DevOps Engineer in our Instant Payments lab, you will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to build, support and improve our tools for Continuous Integration, automated testing, and release management within our public and private Cloud hosting platform. We expect that you will demonstrate and apply outstanding engineering practices to increase agility, improve quality and help reduce downtime in all our solutions. A DevOps is not a "thing you do" but a cultural change more than anything, you are also expected to drive this change and ensure that we embed agile and DevOps principles in everything we do. It is also very important to understand and apply industry standard methodologies, foster collaborative working to provide solutions for complex business problems where no precedent may exist and ensure implementation of solutions where appropriate. 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… Here's where you'll make a difference… You have can-do attitude, interest in exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. 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. It's a very hands-on role, with your time spread among short term support-related tasks, longer-term initiatives and personal development. You will be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy. Tools we commonly used to build automated release pipelines in LBG… Jenkins, Groovy, GitHub, Harness, ArgoCD, GitOps NexusIQ, Aquasec, SonarQube Docker & Kubernetes. CI/CD pipelines to both public and private Cloud - Google Cloud and Open Shift Cloud Programming experience (Java, Spring boot) Istio service mesh What you'll need… We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge - it's what makes you amazing! As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated core, hands-on experience the below: Cloud/DevOps experience: Public cloud experience (utilising Terraform) Experience in DevOps practices in the Cloud Experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment providing operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation. Containerisation: Kubernetes and Docker Containerised Microservices Programming/Scripting in: Java, Spring Boot Bash, Groovy Source code repositories: Particularly Git Software Development Life Cycle: Full project life cycle experience (from inception through to production) and including: Continuous integration, Automated deployments, Build tools and technologies (i.e., maven) In addition, any of the below, would also be beneficial: Knowledge of fundamentals cloud architecture and security concepts Experience with a configuration and deployment management tools is an advantage, e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef Event based architecture knowledge of Kafka, Global K tables, KStreams About working for us… Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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. * 28 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. Join our journey.