Senior DevOps Engineer

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End Date:
Thursday 08 January 2026

Salary Range: £70,929 - £78,810 per annum

Flexible Working Options:
Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Job Share.

Job Title:

Lead Dev Ops Engineer. Salary: £70,929 - £86,692 per annum.

Location:

Manchester.

Hours:

Full-time.

Working Pattern:
Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, in one of our office sites.

Join us as a Lead Dev Ops Engineer and shape the future of our infrastructure with innovation and leadership. We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Dev Ops Engineer with a strong background in design experience to join our innovative Core Banking Platform team in Manchester. As the Lead Dev Ops Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust infrastructure, automation processes, and practices with a focus on sustainability and reliability.

Additionally, you will play a pivotal role in coaching and mentoring team members to enhance their skills and capabilities in Dev Ops methodologies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing. The Core Banking Platform team work together to curate and deliver the future core banking systems for the UK’s largest retail bank such as setting up a new Cloud native Microservices platform that will function as the epicenter of the bank of future.

They are following a mission critical roadmap consisting of migrations and go-lives of products that will contribute massively to the transformation goals of Lloyds Banking Group. The ideal candidate will be comfortable in a customer focused and engineering driven environment where they can put their excellent CI/CD knowledge to use and embrace new tools and Cloud technologies.

• Contribute to the provisioning of data products to support an exit from legacy systems to a key strategic platform
• Design and Architectural Planning:
  Lead the design and architectural planning of our infrastructure, focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment with business goals and technical requirements. Mentor junior team members in architectural best practices and design principles.
• Infrastructure Automation:
  Design and implement automation solutions for provisioning, configuration management, and deployment processes. Leverage infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and tools to ensure consistency, repeatability, and scalability. Mentor team members in automation techniques and best practices.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):
  Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate software delivery processes. Ensure code releases are seamless, reliable, and efficient, with minimal downtime. Provide guidance and mentorship on CI/CD pipeline design and optimization.
• Monitoring and Alerting:
  Implement robust monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect and respond to system issues and performance bottlenecks. Configure monitoring tools to collect metrics, logs, and traces for analysis and troubleshooting. Coach team members in effective monitoring strategies and tools utilization.
• Security and Compliance:
  Collaborate with security teams to implement security best practices and compliance standards. Ensure infrastructure and applications are protected against security threats and vulnerabilities. Provide guidance and mentorship on security practices and compliance requirements.
• Capacity Planning and Performance Optimization:
  Perform capacity planning exercises to anticipate resource requirements and scale infrastructure accordingly. Optimize system performance through performance tuning and load testing. Coach team members in capacity planning methodologies and performance optimization techniques.
• Documentation and Knowledge Sharing:
  Create comprehensive documentation for infrastructure configurations, processes, and best practices. Foster a culture of knowledge sharing and continuous learning within the team. Mentor team members in documentation practices and knowledge sharing initiatives.