Interview: Tata Consultancy Services and Lloyds Banking Group, DevOps Excellence Awards finalists

"We're leveraging cloud technology with a hybrid cloud strategy, giving greater stability, greater scalability, and efficiency"

The adoption of DevOps principles across IT, and the wider business, has grown quickly in the last two years, which made choosing finalists for the DevOps Excellence Awards more difficult than ever.

The DevOps Excellence Awards showcase outstanding achievements from organisations, individuals and tools that have successfully applied DevOps methodologies - and this year, there's a lot of success to celebrate.

Among the finalists are Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Lloyds Banking Group, who have jointly reached the shortlist for three categories: Best Use of Microservices/Containers; DevOps Tool / Product of the Year; and Best DevOps Transformation.

We talked to Peter Crouch, engineering lead at Lloyds Banking Group, about how TCS is helping his firm drive transformation across the bank.

Crouch says Lloyds - which serves a thirdof the UK population - has started to transform the way it delivers engineering; simplifying processes, modernising technology and investing in people with capability and talent.

"We're leveraging cloud technology with a hybrid cloud strategy, giving greater stability, greater scalability, efficiency - that's really supporting the way that we change and run our applications."

As part of this journey, Lloyds is getting "fantastic support" from its strategic partner, TCS. Crouch says the consultancy brings "domain expertise, knowledge of cloud, and knowledge of DevOps."

"We're really seeing great progress in all of the work that we're doing across the engineering, and lots more to come."

Crouch says Lloyds' and TCS' joint nomination in the DevOps Excellence Awards is testament to the fabulous progress they've made to take this step into the next chapter of engineering transformation.

To learn more about how TCS is working with Lloyds, watch our video interview with Peter Crouch now.