Senior DevOps Engineer

Lead Dev Ops Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £86,692 per annum

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Dev Ops Engineer with a strong background in design experience to join our innovative Core Banking Platform team in Manchester. As the Lead Dev Ops Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust infrastructure, automation processes, and practices with a focus on sustainability and reliability. Additionally, you will play a pivotal role in coaching and mentoring team members to enhance their skills and capabilities in Dev Ops methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing.

The Core Banking Platform team works together to curate and deliver the future core banking systems for the UK's largest retail bank, such as setting up a new Cloud native Microservices platform that will function as the epicenter of the bank of the future. They are following a mission critical roadmap consisting of migrations and go-lives of products that will contribute massively to the transformation goals of Lloyds Banking Group.

• Contribute to the provisioning of data products to support an exit from legacy systems to a key strategic platform
• Design and Architectural Planning:
  Lead the design and architectural planning of our infrastructure, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and technical requirements. Mentor junior team members in architectural best practices and design principles.
• Infrastructure Automation:
  Design and implement automation solutions for provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes. Leverage infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and tools to ensure consistency, repeatability, and scalability. Mentor team members in automation techniques and best practices.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):
  Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery processes. Ensure code releases are seamless, reliable, and efficient, with minimal downtime. Provide guidance and mentorship on CI/CD pipeline design and optimization.
• Monitoring and Alerting:
  Implement robust monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect and respond to system issues and performance bottlenecks. Configure monitoring tools to collect metrics, logs, and traces for analysis and troubleshooting. Coach team members in effective monitoring strategies and tools utilization.
• Security and Compliance:
  Collaborate with security teams to implement security best practices and compliance standards. Ensure infrastructure and applications are protected against security threats and vulnerabilities. Provide guidance and mentorship on security practices and compliance requirements.
• Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization:
  Perform capacity planning exercises to anticipate resource requirements and scale infrastructure accordingly. Optimize system performance through performance tuning and load testing. Coach team members in capacity planning methodologies and performance optimisation techniques.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:
  Create comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, processes, and best practices. Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team. Mentor team members in documentation practices and knowledge sharing initiatives.

• Demonstrable experience using Jenkins, Harness, Github, Nexus, Spinnaker, Terraform, and Backstage
• Proven experience in a Lead Dev Ops Engineer role, with a focus on infrastructure design and reliability engineering
• Strong understanding of cloud computing principles and experience with GCP
• Proficient hands‑on experience in architecting and building ephemerial environments utilising public Cloud Platforms (preferably GCP)
• Proven track record of implementing Fin Ops strategies aligning with organisational financial goals
• Proficien…