DevOps Engineer

JOB TITLE:   DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £47,790 – £50,444

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh

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.

About this opportunity

Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We’re building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters! Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we’re there for customers in the moments that matter. We’re bold and we love to experiment. We’re not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive!

As part of our Edinburgh based team, you will play a key part of an established Data Engineering team within the Waterfront Platform evolving our Insurance, Pension and Investment Digital Channels. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate who is passionate and experienced in designing and delivering modern data solutions.

Day to day, you’ll be:

• Collaborating with other engineering, product and business colleagues to implement data led product features that allow us to digitally modernise customer journeys.

• Developing the DevOps CI/CD pipelines, tooling and working practices that will accelerate the flow of software and data engineering with the team.

• Finding opportunities to automate and optimise the provisioning of infrastructure and its performance.

• Working together with other specialists to implement streaming data applications and modern cloud hosted data stores, you’ll play a critical role by automating data pipelines and optimising data infrastructure.

• Instrumental in implementing standard methodologies for securing applications and infrastructure, and monitoring their health and performance.

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Proven experience of modern engineering practices like automated testing, test driven development and continuous integration for data pipelines using related tools.

• A “can-do” attitude and ability to collaborate effectively with multi-disciplinary, internal, and external distributed teams across the initiative lifecycle.

• Knack of identifying new technologies, tools and approaches to help continually improve standards and quality.

• Confidence to express their own opinions and be pragmatic about modifying them when appropriate.

• A well-developed understanding of end to end principles of DevOps and associated tools.

• The know how to identify automation opportunities and the ability to implement improvements.

• Experience of designing and managing application pipelines using industry standard orchestration technologies such as Jenkins, Harness, Spinnaker, Gradle and Maven.

• Working knowledge of Containerisation technologies like Docker and Kubernetes/Helm to deploy and manage applications in a consistent and scalable manner.

• Proven capability of implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform.

• Experience gained within modern Cloud based environments, preferably GCP.

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

• 28 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.