Senior Devops Engineer

Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £70,929 - £91,110

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh or London

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol, Edinburgh or London office.

About This Opportunity

Exciting opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Commercial Lending Platform, as a Senior DevOps Engineer you'll hold accountability for design, implementation, maintenance and support of DevOps 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.

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive our ambitions to grow our business, focus on improving the client experience, and change how we work. Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank (among others).

What You'll Do

We're looking to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer who can help build out our automation capabilities and apply DevOps practices to our route to live.

• Accountable for DevOps implementations at a Feature team/Lab level, ensuring all services/implementations are stable, scalable and performant.
• You'll work in a highly collaborative way, working closely with other DevOps specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers and partner resources.
• You'll love learning new techniques and programming languages; you're a keen problem solver and you're willing to leave your comfort zone every now and then.
• Have a passion for DevOps engineering, adopting the mentality of a curious engineer that can own problems and use initiative to improve.
• Relish working alongside feature teams that develop Java microservice code, helping them continuously improve.
• Support our transition to containerisation and cloud technologies.
• Identification of opportunities to automate and simplify, so we can deliver better quality products for our customers.
• Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, and by undertaking technical interviews to enable us to hire new engineers.
• Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt.
• Ensuring service levels are appropriate for all DevOps services consumed by the Feature/Lab team.

What You'll Need

• Azure DevOps experience, you're someone who knows what it's all about and you're up for the challenge of helping us on our Azure DevOps journey!
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Maven, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Harness.
• Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana.
• Solid coaching expertise, working alongside our feature teams to assist them in understanding a DevOps approach to enable them to contribute themselves.
• Common programming and scripting languages and frameworks e.g. Node.JS & REACT
• Technical architecture and Microservice design principles.

It Would Be Great If You Had…

• Experience with Kafka ecosystem and event-driven architectures, including Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Schema Registry.
• Advanced Kubernetes skills, including managing ingress controllers, implementing service mesh solutions (like Istio or Linkerd), and handling stateful applications.
• Experience implementing observability patterns across distributed systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing solutions.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform specifically for Azure resources.
• Ability to drive architectural decisions related to CI/CD and infrastructure
• Knowledge of security practices in cloud environments (DevSecOps)

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.