DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join our hybrid team. The role involves delivering reliability improvements via automation, observability, and best practices across databases and services.

You will support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, with hands-on work on major enterprise databases including Oracle, IBM DB2, SAP HANA and SQL Server. The ideal candidate will have strong SQL skills, performance tuning capabilities, and experience in security controls and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering reliability improvements through automation and observability.
• Experience supporting CI/CD pipeline development and deployment automation.
• Experience with enterprise databases including Oracle, IBM DB2, SAP HANA and SQL Server.
• Strong SQL skills including query optimisation, troubleshooting and performance tuning.

Responsibilities

• Deliver reliability improvements through automation, observability and engineering best practices.
• Support CI/CD pipeline development and deployment automation activities.
• Experience monitoring database health, utilisation, availability and performance.
• Understanding of backup, recovery, replication and disaster recovery processes.
• Experience identifying and resolving database, application and infrastructure performance bottlenecks.

Skills

Automation

Observability

CI/CD

SQL

DB health

Backup/Recovery

Performance tuning

Security controls

Large-scale platforms

Tools

Oracle Database

IBM DB2

SAP HANA

Microsoft SQL Server

Job description

DevOps Engineer

Job Description

Location: Leeds, Bristol, Halifax, or Edinburgh (non-London locations only)

Work Model: Hybrid, 2-3 Days in a week

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Deliver reliability improvements through automation, observability and engineering best practices.
• Support CI/CD pipeline development and deployment automation activities.
• Experience supporting enterprise database technologies including: Oracle Database, IBM DB2, SAP HANA, Microsoft SQL Server.
• Strong SQL skills including query optimisation, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Experience monitoring database health, utilisation, availability and performance.
• Understanding of backup, recovery, replication and disaster recovery processes.
• Experience identifying and resolving database, application and infrastructure performance bottlenecks.
• Knowledge of database security controls, auditing and operational governance.
• Understanding of large-scale operational data platforms and mission-critical services.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Experience supporting cyber security, compliance monitoring or risk management platforms.
• Knowledge of Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) technologies.
• Experience working with security telemetry and operational analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting data engineering, analytics or AI-enabled platforms.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Cloud SQL or BigQuery.
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB or Cassandra.
• Understanding of AI, machine learning or advanced analytics environments.
• Experience working within financial services or another highly regulated industry.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Reliable and resilient compliance monitoring services that meet operational expectations.
• Reduced operational toil through effective automation and engineering improvements.
• Improved observability and operational insight across security platforms.
• Strong database reliability, performance and resilience across critical services.
• Secure, scalable and supportable solutions that help protect Lloyds Banking Group and its customers.