Senior DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial institution in Leeds is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to lead the design and implementation of scalable DevOps pipelines. This hybrid role involves collaboration across teams to promote automation and best practices. The ideal candidate has proven experience in DevOps and is proficient with tools like Terraform and Kubernetes, enabling high-quality solutions and continuous improvement.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior DevOps or cloud engineering role.
• Deep expertise in infrastructure automation using Terraform.
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines with hands-on experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines.
• Architect and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Mentor junior engineers and promote DevOps principles.

Skills

Infrastructure automation with Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Kubernetes

Docker

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Agile methodologies

Cloud security

Tools

Harness

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

End Date

Sunday 14 September 2025

Salary Range

£70,929 - £78,810

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION: Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at leasttwo days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Leeds office

About this opportunity

As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the General Insurance (GI) Platform, you’ll be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and maintainability of scalable DevOps pipelines and automation frameworks that empower our Feature and Lab teams to deliver faster, safer, and more reliable outcomes. You'll technically influence tooling choices, promote standards, advocate DevOps principles.

What you’ll do

You’ll feel excited by the prospect of making lasting positive impact through:

• Lead the design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines using tools like Harness, ensuring seamless integration and delivery across multiple environments

• Architect and manage infrastructure as code using Terraform, enabling scalable and repeatable deployments.

• Lead the orchestration and automation of infrastructure and application deployments using tools like Kubernetes, Docker and Harness

• Collaborate with teams across our Platform to recommend and implement the right DevOps tooling and automation strategies aligned with our enterprise architecture

• Continuously improve deployment processes, monitoring, and incident response to ensure high availability and performance

• Stay up to date with emerging technologies such as AI-driven DevOps, observability platforms and Agentic automation frameworks

• Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation

• Identify and drive improvements in existing systems, processes, and security practices, contributing to initiatives

• Manage and track budgets related to DevOps tooling and cloud infrastructure, ensuring cost-effective solutions

• Encourage collaboration and documentation to promote consistency in approaches across team

What you’ll need

• Proven experience in a senior DevOps or cloud engineering role, ideally within a fast-paced, agile environment
• Deep expertise in infrastructure automation using Terraform across Windows, Linux and OCP \\ GCP
• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, with hands-on experience using Harness or similar tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI)
• Solid understanding of DevOps principles, cloud security, and SRE practices
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently or as part of a team
• A passion for automation, scalability, and delivering high-quality solutions
• Experience working effectively within teams to embed a culture of collaboration and ownership. Contributing to Communities of Practice where colleagues share knowledge, take initiative and deliver on commitment.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools like JIRA and Confluence
• Proven track record using critical thinking to solve sophisticated infrastructure and deployment challenges
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills with a customer-centric approach
• Awareness of technology intelligence trends, including Generative AI, LLMs and their impact on DevOps practices
• Understanding of networking concepts across public cloud and on-premises infrastructure
• Support & Troubleshooting: Remote operations, incident response, and environment health checks.

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:

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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.