Tusker Lead System Engineer

Design and build the highest quality integrated customer-centric technology solutions whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their teams.

Able to lead cross-disciplinary teams developing performant and highly available solutions showcasing excellent interpersonal and communication skills, whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle and continuing to track the market trends to identify opportunities that would benefit the organisation.

This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain & technical expertise with great passion for coaching and developing people in a player-coach model

About us

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

We're an award winning car leasing company who have been providing company car and tax efficient car benefit schemes since 2009.

We take pride in helping organisations offer their employees a car that will have less impact on our environment, supporting planet positive mobility and a brighter more sustainable future.

We're committed to driving down emissions by getting people into newer and more environmentally friendly cars. We genuinely care about the world we live in and know that our customers do too.

This is why we work with each and every one to offset the carbon emitted by each salary sacrifice car put on the road through our schemes.

Our Car Benefit Scheme gives employees access to affordable, fully maintained and insured cars for a fixed monthly amount delivered through a salary sacrifice employee benefit arrangement.

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What you'll need

Takes responsibility for delivering a prescribed budget for own area of the organisation and / or conducts complex analyses on budget progress in other areas while working within established systems.

Provides input into the development of IT Security policies, develops underlying procedures and monitors their implementation for area of responsibility within the organisation.

Meets the needs of significant customers related to a range of products and services and / or manages a customer advisor team over a given area.

Uncovers emerging issues and / or needs and identifies potential causes, related issues, key stakeholders and barriers. Analyses and evaluates the feasibility / relevance of proposals for complex products / services, then develops and amends as necessary with guidance from senior colleagues and / or supervises activities performed by a product development / specialist team.

Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework;

provides specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation.

Identifies shortcomings, then suggests and implements improvements to existing business practices, while developing and delivering projects or a workstream within the organisation's change management programme with guidance from senior colleagues.

Delivers prescribed outcomes for area of responsibility by working within established knowledge management systems, by managing others and working within established systems.

Identifies and evaluates complex expertise-led solutions against a range of criteria to find the ones that best meet business needs.

Sets short term objectives and helps manage the performance of direct reports by working within performance management systems.

Delivers prescribed outcomes for area of responsibility by improving and / or working within an established supplier management plan guidance from senior colleagues, using risk management systems to ensure the organisation is not exposed to undue risks

And any experience of these would be really useful

Automation strategy from virtual network (e.g. VPC, security groups and DNS), through compute, storage, VMs, load balancing, web servers and databases.

Covering test, staging and production environments for Tusker's bespoke applications.

Implementation of the proposed strategy enabling automation of environment deployment and server deployment. This will result in the deployment and configuration of technologies such as, Linux (Debian and Ubuntu);

multiple AWS technologies, including EC2 and RDS; VMware; Boomi Atoms; WordPress.

Configuring the AWS environment for auto-scaling, self-healing and security.

Development using existing automations technologies Terraform, Ansible, EKS and ArgoCD.

Owner of virtual infrastructure in AWS, ensuring it is monitored and maintained.

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.

Responding to alerts coming from Opmanager, New Relic or AWS which are infrastructure related, esp. alerts from the production AWS environment.

About working for us

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

30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch.