Lead DevOps Engineer – Hybrid Cloud-Native Platform

Job Title

Lead Dev Ops Engineer

Newport

Full-time

Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office

£90,440 - £106,400

Join our Transport Platform team and help shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation. The role sits within the Transport Platform, a key member of the wider Consumer Lending Business Unit. Our mission is to keep Britain moving by providing customer‑focused solutions for vehicle access, maintenance, and related services including digital account management. We support the Group and UK in driving forward the sustainability agenda.

• Lead cross‑functional engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high‑quality Dev Ops capabilities across cloud‑native platforms, applying technical leadership to drive outcomes and foster team autonomy.
• Design and orchestrate CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, Git Hub, and Terraform, focusing on federation patterns like overrides and config maps to enable teams to self‑serve and deploy with confidence.
• Engineer Kubernetes‑native solutions across public and private cloud environments, including workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management to ensure platform resilience and scalability.
• Build secure and compliant Dev Ops workflows by integrating Sonar Qube and Aqua Sec into automated pipelines, enforcing guardrails and embedding quality assurance from the start.
• Automate manual processes and enable self‑service capabilities across teams, championing an automation‑first mindset and reducing operational overhead through robust pipeline design.
• Apply strong stakeholder management across complex platforms, balancing competing priorities and communicating effectively with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Plan strategic roadmaps, looking 6–12 months ahead to evolve Dev Ops capabilities in line with business needs, scheduling work and anticipating future demand.
• Foster a culture of enablement, ensuring Dev Ops capabilities are federated—not centralised—to empower teams to own and operate their delivery pipelines.
• Mentor and collaborate across communities of practice, driving continuous improvement through shared learning, experimentation, and leadership.

• Providing technical leadership across cross‑functional teams, delivering secure, scalable, and high‑quality Dev Ops capabilities on cloud‑native platforms.
• Designing and orchestrating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, Git Hub, and Terraform, focusing on federation patterns including overrides and config maps.
• Engineering Kubernetes‑native solutions across GCP environments, including workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management.
• Working with GCP platform services, including Databases such as Spanner, Big Query, Alloy
  
  DB/Cloud
  
  SQL, GCS buckets, and IAM permissions and controls.
• Embedding security and quality assurance into automated pipelines using tools like Sonar Qube and Aqua Sec to enforce guardrails and ensure compliance.
• Automating manual processes and enabling self‑service capabilities across teams, with a strong automation‑first mindset.
• Managing multiple stakeholders across complex platforms, balancing competing priorities and communicating effectively with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Planning and prioritising Dev Ops capability roadmaps, looking 6–12 months ahead to align with strategic goals.
• Experience with Liquibase for database schema management and familiarity with Nexus Repository for artefact management, advantageous.
• Exposure to observability platforms such as Dynatrace.
• Desirable: experience working with teams to investigate and define remediation plans as part of root cause analysis following high‑impact incidents.

• 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.

Required languages:
English