Junior Software Engineer- Manchester

We're modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

We're particularly interested in people with experience in one or more of the following: Azure WAF, Google Cloud Armor, Google Model Armor, VPCSC, Azure Firewall, Google VPC Firewall, Azure NGFW, Google Cloud NGFW, GitHub, Terraform, Azure Policy, Google Organization Policy.

Your role as a Junior Software Engineer is to learn on the job and work collaboratively with the other Software Engineers and Senior Software Engineers within the Network and Perimeter Security team and the wider organisation. Your responsibilities will include:

• You'll join a collaborative, agile team that is product focused. You'll design and develop features and improvements to our existing products and services. We provide BAU support as well as an on call rota.
• Write and review Infrastructure as Code ensuring it has been written securely
• Operationally support existing products including incidents and inbound customer requests
• Develop and test new features for existing products
• Manage work via Jira tickets
• Automate and utilise AI to drive efficient and cost-effective products for our customers
• Identify opportunities for improvements in our products and services
• Support planning activities and product roadmaps
• Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive

• Self-starter who is able to learn quickly on the job whilst building new skills and technological knowledge
• Ensure that any code or solutions are built in line with our security standards and industry best practice
• Ability to listen and reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion
• Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners
• Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve
• Experience with agile development methods & tooling e.g., Scrum, Kanban, Jira & Confluence, and experience of working as part of an agile team
• Experience of DevOps, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery
• Be passionate about automating everything
• Be industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 24 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.