Senior DevOps Engineer

Do you want to build the pipelines, automation and standards that help our labs deliver faster and more safely across GCP and our private OCP platforms? We're the Colleague Channels Platform—the team powering the technology used by colleagues in Branches, Contact Centres and Operations. We deliver shared services and cross‑platform capabilities, working with teams across the Group to simplify and improve colleague journeys.

Our Cloud team sets the standards for automation, pipelines, infrastructure and monitoring, staying at the forefront of Dev Ops technologies and partnering closely with central and feature teams!

• Develop and enhance CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and monitoring using Git Hub, Helm, Harness, Jenkins, IBM Dev Ops Deploy and Dynatrace.
• Build and refine Kubernetes and Istio patterns across GCP and OCP, serving as a technical reference for adopting teams.
• Drive automation to reduce toil and improve stability, scalability and performance across Dev Ops services.
• Define and implement platform guardrails and standards to ensure secure, fast delivery.
• Use infrastructure‑as‑code and scripting (e.g., Terraform) to create reliable, repeatable environments.
• Partner with feature teams and central groups to coach on build, release and monitoring practices, and mentor junior engineers.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and convert successful approaches into reusable delivery patterns.
• Raise engineering standards by sharing knowledge, reviewing designs and implementations, and supporting teams in adopting best Dev Ops practices.

• Strong hands‑on experience with Kubernetes, Istio and Helm, alongside solid experience with source code management and orchestration tooling in production environments.
• Proven cloud platform experience across public cloud (GCP) and private cloud (OCP/Open Shift), with a practical "keep it simple and reliable" approach with hands‑on experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform.
• Understanding of technical architecture and Microservice design principles.
• Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana.
• Strong automation skills (infrastructure as code and scripting such as Python and/or Bash) to reduce manual steps and improve consistency.
• A collaborative approach—you build relationships easily, bring people with you, and enjoy helping teams adopt better ways of working.
• You take pride in well‑engineered solutions and enjoy being the person others turn to for advice, guidance and practical problem‑solving.
• Experience of common programming languages, frameworks and testing tools e.g. Java Spring Boot/Quarkus, Node.
  
  JS & REACT, Selenium, Cucumber, Playwright.
• Experience of working with code scanning tools and vulnerability management.
• Understanding of networking including segmentation, subnetting, policies, firewalls and routing.
• Experience with managing secrets and certificates, working with tools such as Hashi Corp Vault.
• Experience of cloud optimisation, Fin Ops to measure and optimise cloud resources.
• Experience with data and streaming technologies such as Postgre
  
  SQL, Oracle, Liquibase, Kafka.

• A generous pension contribution up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We're disability confident.

If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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