DevOps Engineer - Savings and Payments

We are excited to offer a superb opportunity for a DevOps Engineer to join our Solutions Delivery team in IT & Transformation. Our team is focused on supporting platforms, tooling and applications both in delivery and production, as well as working alongside our engineering teams to enable change and support YBS’s Savings and Payments services.

This is a hybrid role; with remote working and some onsite presence in our Bradford offices.

About the role

As 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 within their squad(s). 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 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 us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.

Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.

• Bonus. We work together to reach for better at YBS, so when we reach our goals we’re all rewarded, with up to a 10% annual bonus.

• 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.

Ready to apply?

If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click apply now to send us your application.

Want more information?

If you have any questions about this role, please contact Mike Peel on recruitment@ybs.co.uk.