Senior DevOps Engineer

lloyds banking group; Leeds; On-site; GBP 72,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is searching for a Software Engineer to lead technical development and manage team delivery. This role involves collaborating with team members to migrate processes to Google Cloud and design CI/CD pipelines. Ideal candidates will possess experience in cloud technologies and continuous integration practices, alongside strong interpersonal skills. Join a company committed to diversity and innovation in finance. This position offers a hybrid working model based in Leeds.

Benefits

Flexible working options

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform.
• Ability to design CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong problem-solving and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical development and delivery.
• Review existing processes and migrate to Google Cloud.
• Mentor team members and exemplify engineering standards.

Skills

Cloud technology experience

CI/CD pipelines management

Continuous monitoring expertise

Continuous testing methodologies

Orchestration knowledge

Strong communication skills

Tools

Jenkins

GIT

Docker

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Splunk

Job description

End Date

Monday 23 February 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £109,053

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

Flexible Working Options

Job Share

Job Description Summary

Software Engineer will lead technical development and delivery at Team and sometimes Lab level. They can be a Line Manager who will act as co-lead with the Team PO for overall delivery. In these cases, they will be responsible for overall tech delivery, line management & app ownership alongside their own software engineering output.. Others will operate as Individual Contributors, who are specialists in particular technology areas and will be narrower and deeper in focus.

Job Description

DevOps Engineer

Enterprise Risk Platform – Prudential & Analytics Role Profile DevOps Engineer

Agile Working Options

Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices.

Location

Leeds, West Yorkshire (Hybrid working – the role will require some office working in Leeds)

Salary

£70,929- £78,810

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

About this opportunity

The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Risk strategy, enabled by the Prudential & Analytics Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group. We're passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and successful team who can connect with this purpose and deliver for our customers.

Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting journey and there is no better a time to join us. The investments we are making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects; fresh possibilities have provided new ways for our people to work, learn and thrive.

Job Description

This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a team delivering regulatory and technology change!

We're seeking curious engineers to work within our feature teams. You will support customers by ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.

We're looking for someone who wants to further develop their engineering skillset. We’ll support you to be able to be able to take on technical challenges and develop your understanding of how data solutions and services are developed, tested and implemented. If this excites you then you would be an asset to our team!

We are pioneering the transformation of current processes from our on-premises platforms and have started our journey in deploying solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. This role sits within our platforms Analytics Lab who are looking to create strategic data products and build data and analytics capability.

We work using agile delivery practices, so a self-led individual capable of accurately estimating and planning their own work would be valued highly.

What You’d Get Involved With

• Helping to review our existing processes and migrating those to Google Cloud Platform
• Design, develop, maintain, and improve prudential processes, using CI/CD pipeline tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, GIT, Nexus, Maven and others.
• Building pipelines for current and future analytics and reporting solutions
• Implement and exemplify engineering standards to act as a mentor to colleagues, using constructive feedback to create opportunities for learning.
• Work with the Product Owner and customers to understand, refine and prioritise items for the feature team backlog, using strong problem-solving skills and a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and clearly set-out the way forward.

Key skills required

There is no requirement to have experience with every technology listed, and we would be happy to provide any development opportunities.

• Experience with cloud technology, particularly Google Cloud Platform
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines creation and management such as Harness, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Artifactory, Maven, Ant, Gradle, Puppet, Terraform, GCP Deployment Manager and others
• Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, NewRelic, Splunk, Nagios, Prometheus, Kibana and others
• Experience of continuous testing such as Selenium, Cucumber, SonarQube, Mocha, Zephyr, Veracode and others
• Experience with orchestration such as Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine, Ansible and IaC (e.g. Terraform)
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready solutions
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non-technical people.

Desirable skills include

• Insights into industry solutions for data management, storage and analytics coupled with experience of financial data, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes

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.

If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, please let us know.

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.