We are excited to offer a superb opportunity for a new DevOps Engineer to join our expanding Savings and Payments Engineering team sat within Change Delivery. Our growing DevOps team is focused on supporting platforms, tooling, and applications both in delivery and production, as well as working alongside our software development engineering teams to enable change and support YBS's Payment and Savings services. This exciting new role will play a key part in driving transformation initiatives that underpin our cloud adoption journey.
This is a hybrid role; with remote working and some onsite presence in our Bradford offices.
About the role
As a DevOps Engineer, you'll have the opportunity to be a hands on engineer tasked with solving challenges to continually improve the 4 key DevOps measures: lead time, deployment frequency, mean time to recover and change failure rate. This is achieved through the following deliverables -
- Monitoring & Alerting: implementing continued enhancements to drive improvements for MTTD and MTTR
- Automating Release Management: automating (CI/CD), integrating and automating non functional testing to accelerate deployment frequency and lead time
- Monitoring Error Budgets: operational oversight of SLOs and identifying actions to maintain. Independently identify service hotspots and trends, proposing strategies to improve
- Operational Service: part of production support rota for the tribe, alongside development engineers. Contributing to blameless post mortems and implementing root cause fixes.
- Automating Toil: remove the manual tasks required to operate the product
- DevSecOps Champion: automate and integrate security testing into the deployment pipeline and vulnerability management
- Provide Segregation & Assurance: the independence of the role allows to take on tasks where segregation is required (e.g. the final deployment to production) and provide the necessary oversight on release quality
About you
What will you bring to the role?
- A development or platform engineering background
- Knowledge and/ or experience of digital transformation
- Experience of technical skills in some of the following
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery Pipelines tools such as Jenkins, GitHub and Gitlab CI/CD
- Scripting and automation capabilities (e.g., Python, bash)
- Modern monitoring skills and best practices using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and Dynatrace
- Knowledge of networks and routing
- Knowledge of Digital focused technologies (Digital platforms, Native apps, API, services and containers)
- A track record of continuous improvement including challenging and developing both yourself and the team.
- Knowledge and understanding of Agile/DevOps software development methodologies
About our Benefits
- Holiday. You'll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
- Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
- Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that's why we'll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
- Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you'll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
- My Benefits. When you join YBS you'll have access to our self service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts.