Bank of America believes both in the importance of working together and offering flexibility to our employees. We use a multi-faceted approach for flexibility, depending on the various roles in our organization.

Working at Bank of America will give you a great career with opportunities to learn, grow and make an impact, along with the power to make a difference. Join us!

Location Overview:

Join our bustling Bromley office, situated in one of London's greenest boroughs. Here you'll find plentiful and easy commuting routes, with central London just 15 minutes away by train.

Role Description:

In this role you will be responsible for developing and delivering complex requirements to accomplish business goals. Key responsibilities of the job include ensuring that software is developed to meet functional, non-functional and compliance requirements, and solutions are well designed with maintainability/ease of integration and testing built-in from the outset. Job expectations include an extensive knowledge of development and testing practices common to the industry and design and architectural patterns. You will also be responsible for application and user interfaces, ansible templates and resource adapters (plugins) in our BofA Network Automation Engine platform. You will be writing python and ansible modules that deploy network fabrics via a controller. As well you'll write and execute tests to validate the automation against known standards.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain Python-based applications and scripts. Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code.

• Debug and troubleshoot software issues.

• Develop microservices, APIs, service templates that define the services that we provide to our customers.

• Manage and maintain Linux servers and systems.

• Perform routine system monitoring, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.

• Ensure system security and compliance in line with BOA best practices.

• Automate repetitive tasks and workflows using Python and shell scripts within virtual environment.

• Deploy code to our development, QA, Staging and Production servers using our continuous integration and deployment pipeline platform.

• Test new services are functioning as expected using our testing framework and add new test cases to the test suite to continuously improve our quality assurance bar.

• Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions.

• Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback.

• Collaborate with DevOps engineers to streamline operation and process.

• Document code and systems configurations.

What we are looking for:

• Demonstratable experience as a Python developer

• Experience with Linux system administration

• Experience with automation tools and frameworks.

• Agile (Lean or Scaled Agile Framework)

• Proficient in Python programming and Linux OS. (Ubuntu, CentOS).

• Familiarity with shell scripting (Bash).

• Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git).

• Understanding of network protocols and services (DNS, DHCP, HTTP, SSH).

Skills that will help:

• Excellent problem-solving skills.

• Communication and collaboration abilities.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

• Attention to detail and commitment to quality.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

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• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner

• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons

• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum

• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.

• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.

• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters

• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution

• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK's most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.

• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It's important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.