Senior DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization seeks a Senior DevOps Engineer to design and implement DevOps pipelines at their offices in the UK. This role involves collaborating with diverse teams to enhance client experiences while adopting a hybrid working model. Candidates should have strong expertise in Azure DevOps and CI/CD tools, along with skills in coaching and mentoring junior engineers.

Benefits

Up to 15% pension contribution

Annual bonus (performance-based)

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD tools.
• Support feature teams in adopting DevOps practices.
• Understanding of microservice design principles.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support DevOps pipelines and automation.
• Mentor early career engineers on DevOps practices.
• Collaborate with teams to improve client experience.

Skills

Azure DevOps experience

CI/CD tools experience

Monitoring tools experience

Coaching skills

Knowledge of programming languages

Tools

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Dynatrace

Job description

End Date: Sunday 24 August 2025

Salary Range: £70,929 - £78,810

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Job Description

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £70,929 - £91,110

Location: Bristol, Edinburgh or London

Hours: Full time

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

About us…

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

About this opportunity…

Exciting opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Commercial Lending Platform. You’ll be responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting DevOps pipelines, tooling, and automation at a Feature/Lab team level, recommending the appropriate pipeline and tooling choices in line with Group Strategy.

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to help grow our business, improve client experience, and innovate how we work. Join our diverse team and make a difference to millions through brands like Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank.

What you’ll do

• Accountable for DevOps implementations at a Feature team/Lab level, ensuring services are stable, scalable, and performant.
• Collaborate closely with other DevOps specialists, engineers, suppliers, and partners.
• Learn new techniques and programming languages; be a problem solver willing to leave your comfort zone.
• Adopt a curious engineer mentality, owning problems and improving processes.
• Support feature teams developing Java microservices, helping them improve continuously.
• Support transition to containerization and cloud technologies.
• Identify opportunities to automate and simplify to deliver better products.
• Mentor early career engineers and participate in technical interviews.
• Use endorsed technologies and apply common build patterns to minimize technical debt.
• Ensure service levels for all DevOps services are appropriate.

What you’ll need

• Azure DevOps experience and enthusiasm for our Azure DevOps journey.
• Experience with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Maven, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Harness.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana.
• Coaching skills to help feature teams adopt DevOps practices.
• Knowledge of programming and scripting languages like Node.js & React.
• Understanding of technical architecture and microservice design principles.

It would be great if you had…

• Experience with Kafka ecosystem and event-driven architectures.
• Advanced Kubernetes skills, including ingress, service mesh, and stateful applications.
• Experience with observability patterns using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Hands-on infrastructure automation experience with Terraform for Azure.
• Ability to make architectural decisions related to CI/CD and infrastructure.
• Knowledge of cloud security practices (DevSecOps).

About working for us

We are committed to inclusivity, diversity, and creating a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We have set goals for diversity in senior roles, offer health and wellbeing initiatives, and welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident and offer reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

Our benefits include:

• Up to 15% pension contribution
• Annual bonus (performance-based)
• Share schemes including free shares
• Flexible benefits, such as discounts
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Join our journey

At Lloyds Banking Group, our purpose is to help Britain prosper. We focus on making a difference for our customers, businesses, and communities. Join us to shape the future of financial services and enjoy opportunities to learn and grow.

We prioritize data safety and confidentiality, and our culture is built on values and diversity, ensuring all colleagues can make a real difference.