Senior Dev Ops Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

30 days holiday

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Transport Platform team and help shape the next phase of our transformation. You'll design, build and operate CI/CD pipelines, engineer Kubernetes-native solutions across cloud platforms, and embed security and compliance into automated workflows for scalable, production-grade services.

This hands-on role is hybrid, with collaboration across engineering leads, product owners and QA to deliver high-quality outcomes and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering secure, scalable DevOps on cloud-native platforms.
• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Harness, Jenkins, GitHub and Terraform.
• Experience engineering Kubernetes-native solutions in cloud environments (GCP).
• Familiarity with security and quality tooling to enforce guardrails on pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines across cloud-native platforms.
• Engineer Kubernetes-native solutions across Public and Private Cloud environments.
• Embed security and compliance into automated workflows and tooling.
• Automate manual processes to enable self-service capabilities for teams.

Skills

DevOps mindset

Cloud-native platforms

Kubernetes expertise

Security & compliance

Tools

Harness

Jenkins

GitHub

Terraform

Kubernetes

Istio

Dynatrace

Liquibase

Nexus Repository

Job description

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Newport or Cardiff office sites.

What you'll be doing

Are you ready to join our Transport Platform team and help shape the next phase of our transformation?

Part of the Consumer Lending Business Unit, our mission is to keep Britain moving by delivering customer-focused solutions for vehicle access, maintenance and digital account management, while supporting the UK's sustainability agenda.

We're transforming our core technology through modern, cloud-native architecture, microservices and a new data ecosystem, alongside embedding DevOps and Agile ways of working to increase team autonomy and impact.

As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you'll work within a feature team to design, build and integrate software, partnering with Engineering Leads, Product Owners and Quality Engineers to deliver high-quality outcomes.

This is a hands‑on role, focused on developing and supporting production‑grade code, with an emphasis on scalable, reusable solutions. You'll also ensure enterprise‑level controls such as parallelism, resilience and cost optimisation across the services you build and operate.

In this role you'll:

• Feel motivated by the opportunity to make a lasting positive impact
• Contribute to the delivery of secure, scalable, and high‑quality DevOps capabilities across cloud‑native platforms. You'll work closely with colleagues to drive outcomes and support team autonomy.
• Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, including federation patterns such as overrides and config maps. You'll help teams across the platform deploy confidently and independently.
• Engineer Kubernetes‑native solutions across Public and Private Cloud environments, including workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management. You'll play a key role in ensuring platform resilience and scalability.
• Embed security and compliance into automated workflows by integrating tools such as SonarQube and AquaSec. You'll contribute to strong guardrails and quality‑first engineering practices.
• Automate manual processes and supporting the development of self‑service capabilities across teams. You'll promote an automation‑first approach and reduce operational overhead through robust pipeline and platform engineering.
• Work effectively with a range of collaborators across complex platforms, communicating clearly with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Contribute to team planning and supporting the evolution of DevOps capabilities to meet future business needs.
• Help to foster a culture of enablement, where DevOps capabilities are federated and teams can own and operate their delivery pipelines.
• Share knowledge and collaborate within Communities of Practice, supporting continuous improvement through hands‑on learning and experimentation.

We're transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey.

What we're looking for:

• Experience delivering secure, scalable, and high‑quality DevOps capabilities on cloud‑native platforms as part of a multi‑functional engineering team.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, including federation patterns such as overrides and config maps.
• Background in Engineering Kubernetes‑native solutions in GCP environments, covering workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management.
• Experience working with GCP platform services, including databases such as Spanner, BigQuery, and AlloyDB/CloudSQL, as well as GCS buckets and IAM permissions and controls.
• Experience Integrating security and quality tools such as SonarQube and AquaSec into automated pipelines to ensure compliance and maintain strong guardrails.
• Background in automating manual processes to improve efficiency and enable self‑service capabilities, applying an automation‑first approach.
• Experience working with multiple collaborators across complex platforms and communicating effectively across technical and non‑technical groups.
• Experience with Liquibase for database schema management and familiarity with Nexus Repository for artefact management (advantageous).
• Exposure to observability platforms such as Dynatrace (advantageous).
• Experience supporting teams in investigating issues and contributing to remediation plans as part of root‑cause analysis after high‑impact incidents (desirable).

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

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