DevOps - SRE Engineer Lloyds Banking Group London: Hybrid working arrangements, (1 - 2 days per week in the office and the rest from home) Salary & Benefits: £52,560 to £64,242 0per annum, plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 28 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices flexibility to suit your lifestyle and ensure a good work-life balance. Where does this role sit? We're the Business and Client Banking division, part of Commercial Banking and we work across several business platform areas. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services that millions of customers across the UK rely upon, day-to-day and especially in their time of need. Summary of our Roles? This is part of a group of three roles being recruited for the team including two senior engineers. This is part of our journey to increase our team presence and maturing our Azure Public Cloud Platform. This is a key time in our journey, and we're seeking people who will enjoy the opportunity to shape the direction and success of our team as it continues to grow and lead the way on building cloud native solutions. What will you spend your time doing? You'll work in a hybrid role which combines Site Reliability, Platform, DevOps and Systems engineering, to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. The diversity, intellectual curiosity, continual learning, problem solving and openness to learning are key to its success. Our Engineers are passionate about ensuring the services, both internal and external have; substantial reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs, resiliency, architectural simplicity, as well as continually seeking to find improvements. You'll have the opportunity to deal with complex challenges, while using your expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity/forensic analysis and various system design strategies to address those challenges. Your focus will be to support the senior DevOps / SRE Engineers on Azure, building new Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions for services currently not running on Azure and eliminating manual work through automation wherever feasible. A further stage will be to apply those skills to GCP, but this is further down the road. You'll get the opportunity to support some of the following activities and be trained up on any elements you have not supported before: Container Image Management & Security Service Mesh (Istio) Kubernetes Helmfile & Helm Charts Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates & Blueprints Azure DevOps CI/CD Automation (Build & Release) Micro Services and Larger Application Service Deployments in K8s Automated Unit/Integration/Load Testing Performance Testing & Monitoring (Junit, Gatling, LoadRunner) Observability, Logging, Monitoring & Alerting (Azure Monitor & Dynatrace) Networks Azure API Gateway Management Azure IAM - Identity & Access Management Azure Policy Management & Cloud Security Cost Management What do we need to see from applicants? We like people who come from diverse cultural backgrounds and are really looking for someone passionate, daring and has a good problem solving attitude. On your CV, we need to see the following to consider you for interview: Prior work experience within the field of DevOps and ideally you'll have a wider software engineering background. We find this level of role suites people well who have worked in DevOps for 2-5 years as a rough guide! Knowledge of Azure Cloud, or DevOps in another cloud platform. DevOps abilities with experience of integration tools such as any of the following; Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Nexus, and Git Kubernetes & Istio (AKS an advantage) - some exposure beneficial but not essential. Intermediate knowledge of Bash/Shell scripting Intermediate knowledge in Java or NodeJS Why else would you want to work with us? We're committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. We have the scale and breadth to provide you with a wide range of training and development opportunities, helping you achieve a rewarding and fulfilling career. Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-based culture focused on making a difference.