Senior DevOps Engineer

Overview

End Date Tuesday 07 October 2025

Salary Range £70,929 - £78,810

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

We support flexible working – for more information on flexible working options, please contact the recruiter.

Job Title: Senior Devops Engineer

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810

Location: Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re moving to the next stages of our digital transformation, and it’s our job within the Chief Security Office (CSO) to ensure that we keep our customers, colleagues and assets safe from threat.

Join our engineering team and play a pivotal role in the Security Data and AI Lab, where you’ll help shape the Group’s cloud strategy and drive innovation through advanced data and AI solutions. By leveraging cutting-edge cloud infrastructure, your contributions will have a direct impact on our product operations, unlocking significant opportunities to enhance customer service and propel business growth. This work forms the cornerstone of our organisation and is essential in building the Bank of the Future.

The sheer pace and scale of change taking place in the data space means there couldn’t be a more exciting time to join us. With a modern technology toolset at our fingertips, we'll build even more opportunities to get the most from our data.

The ideal candidate will have expertise with cloud platforms and a solid background in implementing and managing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Day to day responsibilities include:

• Develop, deploy, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to streamline application development and deployment processes.
• Compose, implement, and oversee scalable, secure, and reliable infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools.
• Automate recurring processes to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual intervention.
• Work closely with development, operations, and product teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery of applications.
• Engage with the team Product Owner and other leadership team members in crafting and solutioning products for customers
• Monitor delivery pipeline performance, solve issues, and optimise to ensure high availability.
• Enforce security protocols and uphold compliance standards throughout the cloud environment.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, deployment processes, and operational procedures
• Promote and support Agile methodologies, encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
• Act as a lead engineer for more junior Dev Ops engineers on the team, being a point of contact for referral and mentoring
• Generally, support the growth of a strong team by mentoring early career engineers and building a network across the Dev Ops community.

In addition, any experience of these would be useful:

• Knowledge of Kubeflow deployments or experience delivering platforms built for AI use cases e.g. through Vertex AI
• Experience migrating capabilities from one cloud platform to another
• Understanding and experience using vault capabilities

• Demonstrated expertise in Dev Ops engineering.
• Proficiency in working with CI/CD tools including Spinnaker, Jenkins, Harness, Terraform, Git Hub, Docker or similar.
• Strong scripting skills in languages such as Python, or Bash.
• Practical experience with automation tools and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) platforms (e.g., Terraform).
• Familiarity with cloud services, particularly GCP
• Demonstrated background in containerisation and orchestration with Kubernetes experience and knowledge a must-have
• Knowledge of constructing secure systems while following enterprise security and compliance guidelines.
• Solid teamwork abilities, capable of persuading and coordinating varied teams towards a common goal.
• Knowledge of artefact repositories and their role in software delivery.
• Knowledge of Monitoring and Observability tooling (e.g., Datadog, Dynatrace).
• Proactive individual capable of working autonomously, advancing various development projects simultaneously.

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