JOB TITLE: Software Engineer - Failover Automation
SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100
LOCATION(S): Halifax, Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above.
About this opportunity
At DevOps Services, our focus is on enabling the business and its software engineers to develop customer product differentiation through a standardised toolchain, minimizing friction throughout the build and deployment lifecycle. This role is within our Failover Automation team, ensuring Lloyds' customers are served by resilient, highly available products, even during IT service disruptions. Join a team that values curiosity, diversity, and value creation.
Typical activities you'll get involved with:
- Finding opportunities and delivering capabilities to support Lloyds Banking Group's innovation and resilience strategies.
- Prototyping new solutions as part of a small but dedicated team.
- Supporting development, execution of trials, and delivery within our Agile Framework.
- Representing Lloyds at industry events and staying updated on emerging propositions.
- Enhancing fintech partnerships through tooling and process improvements.
- Providing education and mentorship to support team upskilling.
What you'll need
A passion for technology and its application for colleagues and customers. An interest in emerging tech is beneficial. You should work collaboratively, engaging with specialists, engineers, suppliers, and partners. Adaptability, learning agility, and resilience are essential, as is a tendency to innovate and explore unproven solutions.
Skills we'd like to see:
- Experience in at least one programming language (Java, Python, JavaScript, C ).
- Experience with cloud solutions and databases.
- Knowledge of software development lifecycle, architecture, and best practices.
- Experience with pipeline/orchestration tools like Harness.io, Jenkins, UrbanCode Deploy is desirable.
- Passion for writing clean, maintainable, and performant code.
Additional useful experience:
- Python, Golang, or API design experience.
About working for us
We promote inclusivity and diversity, reflecting modern society. Our initiatives include diversity goals, health packages, and cancer support programs. We welcome applications from under-represented groups and are disability confident. Reasonable adjustments during recruitment are available.
Benefits include:
- Up to 15% pension contribution.
- Annual performance bonus.
- Share schemes, including free shares.
- Flexible benefits such as shopping discounts.
- 28 days' holiday plus bank holidays.
- Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies.
Join us to do meaningful work that impacts millions of people.