JOB TITLE:  Lead DevOps Engineer - PEC

SALARY: £66,861.00 - £80,290.00 GBP

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

About this opportunity

Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Group strategic view by working closely & collaboratively across the Platform leadership team to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. PEC enables & delivers personalised customer communications & experiences across all channels, media and business areas supporting the Customer Relationship Growth strategy to deepen relationships with our customers across both the retail & commercial bank. This includes the data, analytics, and technology to unlock the value of differentiating our branded channel experiences, proposition, price and communication; as well as paper-free sustainable ambitions.

This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Dev Ops Engineer. As the Dev Ops Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

Here’s where you’ll make a difference:

We are looking for someone who comes from a software engineering or database engineering background that has a solid understanding of DevOps practices, processes and supporting tools. 

• You will be responsible for supporting the build the deployment processes for Microservices on both Private and Public cloud. 
• You’ll focus on the DevOps elements of the software engineering role, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly while continuously improving and developing our processes. 
• You’ll help us to learn and implement the best use of DevOps tools, like Jenkins, source control platforms such as GIT, plus how to containerise and maintain our infrastructure platform. 
• Involved in building DevOps pipeline and maintaining It 
• Configuring Urban Code Deploy 
• Configuring tools that do automated test script.  
• Design and implement secure Automation solutions for our Develop, test and production environments. 
• Build and deploy automation Monitoring and analysis solution 
• Support and work alongside cross functional different agile teams on latest technologies 
• Iterate the best practices to increase the quality of Deployments. 
• Sustain and improve the process of Knowledge sharing throughout the engineering teams. 

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…

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!

We are looking for someone who comes from a software engineering or database engineering background that has a solid understanding of DevOps practices, processes and supporting tools. 

As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated experience of:

• Hands-on practical experience in software engineering and DevOps
• Proven experience and understanding of modern engineering practices 
• Proficiency in automation
• Proficiency in building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• Hands on experience in Python, Bash or PowerShell
• Hands-on experience in infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Ansible
• Hands-on experience with Helm
• Hands-on experience in software build script such as Gradle and Maven
• Proficiency in containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Expertise in cloud infrastructure technologies such as AWS, Azure, or GCP
• Strong understanding of SAST, DAST
• Strong understanding of Secret Management
• Good knowledge of using logging and monitoring tools
• Good Knowledge of API Gateway, VPC, Load Balancer, NAT Gateway, Subnet, Firewall

It would be great if you also had… 

• Certification in GCP “Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer”
• Certification in Kubernetes Administrator (e.g. CKA)
• Certification in Administrator for Apache Kafka (e.g. CCAAK)
• Experience in multi-cloud
• Experience in Go language
• Hands on experience in Istio service mesh
• Strong observability experience: telemetry collection, Grafana, Dynatrace, Splunk, white & black box monitoring
• Strong understanding of application resiliency and security
• Strong understanding of Runtime Security Monitoring and Remediation
• Experience of mentoring and coaching

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 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.