End Date
Tuesday 17 June 2025
Salary Range
£81,999 - £91,110
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join our team.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £81,999 - £91,110

LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London, Gresham Street office location
About this opportunity
Join our Personalised Experiences and Communications Platform as a Senior DevOps Engineer. We’re looking for a DevOps Engineer with a solid IT background and expert skills in DevOps Engineering to deliver top-quality DevOps Engineering capabilities, demonstrating your engineering expertise and cloud opportunities.
This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise and great passion for coaching and developing people in a “player-coach” model. In this role, you’ll lead the design, implementation, and delivery of scalable, resilient, low-latency release and deployment pipelines for microservices on Public cloud. You’ll also lead and participate in Engineering Guilds and Working Groups to actively promote the DevOps brand in LBG. You’ll drive technical strategy and best practices, deliver technical solutions for multiple entities within the group, and foster a culture of secure, high-quality data pipelines. Additionally, you’ll design and implement secure automation solutions for our Develop, test and production pipelines.
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What will I be doing?

• You’ll be responsible for supporting the build the deployment processes for Microservices on Public cloud.
• You’ll focus on the DevOps elements of the software engineering role, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly while continuously improving and developing our processes.
• You’ll help us to learn and implement the best use of DevOps tools, like Jenkins, source control platforms such as GIT, plus how to containerise and maintain our infrastructure platform.
• Involved in building DevOps pipelines and Release pipelines and maintaining It
• Configuring tools that do automated test script
• Design and implement secure Automation solutions for our Develop, test and production pipelines
• Istio configurations and cluster setup in public cloud

Why Lloyds Banking Group
We’re on an exciting transformation journey and there could not be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you’ll need:

• A software engineering or database engineering background that has a solid understanding of DevOps practices, processes and supporting tools
• Strong Software Engineering and pipeline background preferably Java based
• Proven experience and understanding of modern engineering practices
• DevOps Tools (CI/CD tools like Istio, Jenkins, Sonar, Nexus, GIT, Docker Containers)
• Passion for collaborating with other engineers and building a strong team culture
• Kubernetes and Containerization with docker

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Network protocols & security
• Application Servers: WAS & Liberty & Linux
• Exposure to cloud technologies like Azure or especially GCP are highly desirable

About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

• 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

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

Please refer the Job description for details