Senior DevOps Engineer

Head Resourcing Ltd; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail bank in Leeds is seeking an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to join their digital engineering team. This role emphasizes the improvement and maintenance of tools supporting CI/CD pipelines and championing DevOps culture. The ideal candidate will have a strong cloud background and hands-on experience with various DevOps toolchains. This position offers a hybrid work model with two days onsite each week.

Benefits

Pension

Discretionary Bonus

Qualifications

• Strong background in cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, AWS, or OCP.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Git, Maven).
• Solid programming ability, ideally in Java or JavaScript, though Python, Golang, or Rust are also valuable.
• Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor or lead within technical teams.
• A collaborative approach, with an interest in driving cultural and process improvements.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and release frameworks.
• Provide operational support and optimisation for applications running in cloud environments.
• Build and manage solutions with containerisation and orchestration.
• Drive automation and scalability through infrastructure as code.
• Contribute across the full software lifecycle.
• Mentor colleagues and act as a point of leadership in modern engineering practices.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges.

Skills

Cloud platforms (GCP, Azure, AWS, OCP)

DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Git, Maven)

Programming (Java, JavaScript, Python, Golang, Rust)

Containers and orchestration frameworks

Mentoring or leadership within technical teams

Collaborative approach

Job description

Overview

Head Resourcing is delighted to be partnering with one of the UK's leading retail banks to recruit an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer for their Leeds-based team.

The Opportunity

This is a fantastic chance to join a forward-thinking digital engineering team where you'll focus on improving and maintaining the tools and processes that support continuous integration, automated testing, and software delivery pipelines. The role is highly collaborative and hands-on, with a strong emphasis on automation, resilience, and enabling faster, more reliable software releases.

As well as technical delivery, you'll play an important part in championing DevOps culture - helping teams adopt agile practices, embedding continuous improvement, and sharing expertise across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and enhance CI/CD pipelines and release frameworks.
• Provide operational support and optimisation for applications running in cloud environments (public and private).
• Build and manage solutions with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, service mesh).
• Drive automation and scalability through infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
• Contribute across the full software lifecycle-from planning through to production.
• Mentor colleagues and act as a point of leadership in modern engineering practices.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to solve complex technical challenges.

What We're Looking For

• Strong background in cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, AWS, or OCP.
• Hands-on experience with DevOps toolchains (Jenkins, Nexus, SonarQube, Git, Maven).
• Solid programming ability-ideally in Java or JavaScript, though Python, Golang, or Rust are also valuable.
• Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor or lead within technical teams.
• A collaborative approach, with an interest in driving cultural and process improvements.

Salary: Depending on experience

Pension

Discretionary Bonus

This role is Hybrid 2 days per week onsite in Leeds.

If this sounds like you we would love to hear from you.