Senior DevOps Engineer: Cloud Pipelines & Kubernetes

End Date Sunday 15 March 2026

Salary Range £72,702 - £80,780

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary The Senior Dev Ops Engineer will hold accountability for design, implementation, maintenance and support of Dev Ops pipelines, tooling/automation at a Feature/Lab team level. This will include recommending the right pipeline and tooling choices appropriate for their Feature/Lab accountabilities, in line with Group Strategy. They will work alongside other Dev Ops and Software Engineers within Strategic & Run Lab in the Prudential & Analytics Platform supporting and implementing solutions for the MERIT application.

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810

Locations:
Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Full time

Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices

This is your chance to bring your experience of building Dev Ops pipelines to a bigger stage, working with the latest tech on high profile projects.

As a Dev Ops Engineer you’ll grow and learn in an environment that truly recognises the importance of a robust Dev Ops methodology. This is vital work, making sure we release the best‑of‑breed software and platforms that will have a real impact on customers, businesses and communities across the UK.

You’ll collaborate with cross‑functional engineering teams to support and evolve a Regulatory Risk Model Execution Platform built on Google Cloud. The application ecosystem includes Java Spring Boot microservices, a Next.js‑based frontend, and a Python‑driven model execution layer.

As a Dev Ops Engineer, you’ll be part of a team that is dedicated to transforming our software landscape. Day to day, you’ll be:

• working with the latest Dev Ops tools, including Kubernetes, ISTIO, Harness
• building solutions on Google infrastructure such as GKE, Cloud Run, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, Big Query, GCS, Cloud
  
  SQL, HCV Vault
• working with the Product Owner, Lead Engineer and customers to understand, refine and prioritise items for the feature team backlog, using strong problem‑solving skills and a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and clearly set‑out the way forward.
• coaching and inspiring our software engineering teams, helping them upskill in a relevant technology area
• taking ownership of specific technology or delivery problems and solving them acting as a tireless ambassador for Dev Ops, both internally and externally.

• Experience with cloud technology, particularly Google Cloud Platform
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines creation and management such as Harness, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Artifactory, Maven, Ant, Gradle, Terraform, GCP Deployment Manager and others
• Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, New Relic, Splunk, Nagios, Prometheus, Kibana and others
• Experience of continuous testing such as Selenium, Cucumber, Sonar Qube, Mocha, Zephyr, Veracode and others
• Experience with orchestration such as Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine, Ansible and IaC (e.g. Terraform)
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business‑ready solutions
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non‑technical people.
• Experience with data management, storage and analytics in financial contexts (credit risk, capital, impairment processes)

• 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
• 28 days holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and offer reasonable adjustments for colleagues with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions. We guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

Applications are strongly encouraged from all qualified candidates. Please contact us if you need reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process.