Environment Analyst, AVP (Devops)

Join us as an Environment Analyst

• In this key role, you’ll support a set of environments used by a platform’s applications and assist as a point of contact for environment related activities
• We’ll look to you to assist environment managers in preparing a rolling environmental strategy which considers risks in relation to stability and resilience
• You’ll be joining a collaborative and supportive team, and have the opportunity to work with a range of stakeholders across the bank
• We're offering this role at associate vice president level

What you'll do

We’re looking for an Environment Analyst to enable the successful implementation of platform change and deliver customer value by assisting environment managers to deliver complex and critical environment related activities. You’ll help create stories and features for the domain backlog to enable a continual progression of changes and look for ways to improve efficiency, resilience, reliability, quality and manual inconsistency by increasing the use of automation and virtualisation.

Your responsibilities will also include:

• Supporting environment managers in managing a set of non-production environments and maintaining non-production environment dashboards
• Understanding and maintaining a focus on customer value and providing a positive customer experience
• Continually looking for ways to increase speed, efficiency, quality, resilience and reliability by introducing automated and virtualised environments
• Working with environment managers to understand the upcoming flow of work and the customer vision in order to contribute to a fast response to environment related needs
• Working with a range of stakeholders across the bank and third party suppliers to make sure that platform environments are optimised

The skills you'll need

We’re looking for a capable communicator, with knowledge of scaled Agile and Prince 2 tools and methodologies spanning value stream, portfolio, platform and feature team levels. You’ll also need technical knowledge, including platform, technology, products and domains and experience in multiple languages or technical domains.

We’ll also expect:

• Eight to twelve years of experience in architect and provision secure, scalable infrastructure in AWS using IaC such as Terraform, CloudFormation
• Implement and manage deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, rolling to support high-availability
• Automate environment setup, configuration management, and application deployments across development, staging, and production
• Proven experience with GitLab CI/CD, AWS services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, IAM, CloudWatch and PCF
• Solid understanding of DevOps best practices, including observability, security, and scalability