Join us as a AWS Cloud DevOps Engineer

• This is an excellent opportunity to contribute to building our DevOps engineering capability, culture and mindsets within a highly regulated banking environment
• Promoting technical and cultural change, you’ll be accelerating learning journeys and the progressive adoption of our DevOps centre of excellence technical practices and techniques
• As you build relationships with your colleagues, you’ll be making sure that decisions are aligned to locally and across the wider bank, and with an eye to the best outcome for end customers

What you’ll do

You’ll be mentoring and coaching feature and platform teams to higher levels of DevOps capability to drive continuous improvements and enhance the end customer experience. You’ll assess their current levels of DevOps technical capability to identify any gaps, and support them in closing these through learning workshops and training.

You’ll need to show engineering experience in hybrid hosting and migration of applications over a multiyear programme of work. The main emphasis of the role is public cloud in AWS, however we have a sizable on-premise infrastructure and other clouds.

You’ll also be:

• Demonstrating how to measure, understand and visualise the flow and delivery of value through adopting DevOps tools, techniques and processes
• Advising teams across platform and within the centre of excellence on which DevOps capability uplifts would be best suited to their needs and abilities
• Providing feedback that builds on policies, standards, practices and associated DevOps tooling

The skills you’ll need

We’re looking for a DevOps engineer with a strong understanding of project management techniques, particularly in agile environments, who can effectively implement CI or CD pipelines, use agile tooling, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure efficient and reliable software delivery.

You’ll need to hold an appropriate qualification such as AWS Associate or Professional level certificates.

You’ll also demonstrate:

• Knowledge and experience in Terraform for automated provisioning and management of cloud resources
• Knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s), particularly Amazon EKS
• Extensive experience with Helm and Helmfile for Kubernetes applications
• Hands-on experience with ArgoCD for GitOps workflows
• Strong understanding of cloud and container networking principles
• Experience in GitLab CI for building robust pipelines
• Knowledge and experience of bash scripting for automation and system administration