Software Engineering Analyst

**Software Engineering Analyst | Systems / BIS DevOps | Milton Keynes/Hybrid**

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My client, who are one of the UK’s Leading banks, are looking for a Software Engineering Analyst with systems / BIS DevOps experience. The Software Engineering Analyst will be part of the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Team which is an integral partof the bank’s UK digital transformation. Our team defines the guidelines and best practices for that transformation, providing the tools and mechanisms needed for our development teams.

We focus in PaaS and Cloud platforms, supporting development teams with an end to end solution for their deployments. We are one of the core teams in Technology and pride ourselves in our outstanding support, continuous innovation and solutions provided.

**The difference you will make.**
- Helping with onboarding projects willing to use PaaS and Jenkins for their CI/CD.
- Producing, reviewing and enforcing best practices for using PaaS, Jenkins and other build/deployment tools.
- Contributing to the development of reusable Jenkins Docker image and script libraries that will be used by other projects.
- Helping diagnose and solve issues when building/deploying onto OpenShift and potentially other Cloud platforms.
- Developing and maintaining automation for our end to end solution.

**What you will bring.**
- Have experience in IT Systems with strong Development and Operations skills and be familiar with AWS (Lambda, ECS, EKS)
- Be strong in CI/CD model, with domain of Kubernetes, Jenkins and microservice architecture solutions.
- Have some development experience, being proficient in the use of GIT and able to produce scripts or small pieces of code.
- Being able to produce high quality documentation of our automation and processes for our internal clients.

**It would also be nice for you to have**
- Good Ansible and other scripting languages skills.
- Be passionate about driving and leading change by creating practical solutions aligned to digital principles
- Have strong communications skills to deliver clear solutions to both senior and to junior colleagues and be able to listen to and to question both senior and junior colleagues using proven people management and influencing skills
- Be effective in a team environment and be willing to contribute to collective targets, collaborating with IT Business Unit colleagues to achieve successful delivery of projects or evolution of products

**What else you need to know.**

Given the recent impact of the Coronavirus outbreak we will be conducting all interviews via telephone or video-conference where possible.

This is a permanent role to be based in Milton Keynes with some remote working. Time spent in the Milton Keynes office will be agreed with your Line Manager.

**How we’ll reward you.**
- up to £65,000 salary
- £500 annual cash allowance to spend on our great range of benefits
- Eligible for a discretionary performance-related annual bonus
- Pension with generous contributions of up to 12.5% from the company, depending on your own contribution and length of employment with us
- 27 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, which increases to 28 days after 5 years service, with the option to purchase up to 5 contractual days per year
- Voluntary healthcare benefits at discounted rates. Including: Bupa medical insurance, dental insurance, healthcare cash plan and health assessments
- Benefits supporting you and your family, such as death-in-service benefit, income protection, and voluntary life assurance and critical illness cover
- 24/7 access to an online employee discount platform including retailers, entertainment, eating out, travel and more
- Share in the companies’ success by investing in our share plans
- Support your favourite causes through charitable giving and our community partnerships