Senior DevOps Engineer

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £81,999 - £91,000

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location

About this opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our ECP DevOps Team and play a key role in shaping the future of our cloud-native infrastructure. You’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining scalable DevOps pipelines and automation frameworks that empower our Feature and Lab teams to deliver faster, safer, and more reliable outcomes. You will technically influence tooling choices, promote standards, advocate DevOps principles.

• Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines using tools like Harness, ensuring seamless integration and delivery across multiple environments

• Architect and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, enabling scalable and repeatable deployments on Kubernetes in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

• Implement and optimise service mesh architectures using Istio, enhancing observability, security, and traffic control across microservices

• Collaborate with teams across our Platform to recommend and implement the right DevOps tooling and automation strategies aligned with our enterprise architecture

• Continuously improve deployment processes, monitoring, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation

• Identify and drive improvements in existing systems, processes, and security practices, contributing to initiatives

• Manage and track budgets related to DevOps tooling and cloud infrastructure, ensuring cost-effective solutions

• Encourage collaboration and documentation to promote consistency in approaches across teams

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

• Proven experience in a senior DevOps or cloud engineering role, ideally within a fast-paced, agile environment

• Deep expertise in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and infrastructure automation using Terraform

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience using Harness or similar tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI)

• Experience with Istio or other service mesh technologies in a Kubernetes environment

• Solid understanding of DevOps principles, cloud security, and SRE practices

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team

• A passion for automation, scalability, and delivering high-quality solutions

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

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. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.