DevOps Engineer

Enterprise Risk Platform - Prudential & Analytics Role Profile Dev Ops Engineer

Agile Working Options: Hybrid - at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices.

Location:

Leeds, West Yorkshire (Hybrid working - the role will require some office working in Leeds)

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Risk strategy, enabled by the Prudential & Analytics Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group. We're passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and successful team who can connect with this purpose and deliver for our customers.

Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting journey and there is no better time to join us. The investments we are making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects; fresh possibilities have provided new ways for our people to work, learn and thrive.

This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a team delivering regulatory and technology change! We're seeking curious engineers to work within our feature teams. You will support customers by ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.

We're looking for someone who wants to further develop their engineering skillset. We'll support you to be able to take on technical challenges and develop your understanding of how data solutions and services are developed, tested and implemented. If this excites you then you would be an asset to our team!

We are pioneering the transformation of current processes from our on-premises platforms and have started our journey in deploying solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. This role sits within our platforms Analytics Lab who are looking to create strategic data products and build data and analytics capability.

We work using agile delivery practices, so a self-led individual capable of accurately estimating and planning their own work would be valued highly.

• Helping to review our existing processes and migrating those to Google Cloud Platform
• Design, develop, maintain, and improve prudential processes, using CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, GIT, Nexus, Maven and others.
• Building pipelines for current and future analytics and reporting solutions
• Implement and exemplify engineering standards to act as a mentor to colleagues, using constructive feedback to create opportunities for learning.
• Work with the Product Owner and customers to understand, refine and prioritise items for the feature team backlog, using strong problem-solving skills and a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and clearly set‑out the way forward.

• Experience with cloud technology, particularly Google Cloud Platform
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines creation and management such as Harness, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Artifactory, Maven, Ant, Gradle, Puppet, Terraform, GCP Deployment Manager and others
• Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Nagios, Prometheus, Kibana and others
• Experience of continuous testing such as Selenium, Cucumber, Sonar Qube, Mocha, Zephyr, Veracode and others
• Experience with orchestration such as Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine, Ansible and IaC (e.g. Terraform)
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready solutions
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non-technical people.

• Insights into industry solutions for data management, storage and analytics coupled with experience of financial data, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes

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.

If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, please let us know.