Senior DevOps Engineer (FinOps)

Lloyds Banking Group; London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to optimize cloud cost efficiency and implementation on GCP. This hybrid role involves collaboration with engineering and finance teams, automation design, and building infrastructure using modern technologies. The ideal candidate will have significant GCP experience and strong foundational knowledge of FinOps principles.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday with bank holidays on top

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE role with GCP.
• Strong understanding of FinOps principles.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and tools like Jenkins and Github.

Responsibilities

• Partner with teams to drive cost-efficiency across GCP.
• Design and implement automation for cost optimization.
• Build infrastructure and pipelines using Git and Terraform.

Skills

GCP

Cost Optimization

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

Scripting

Agile Practices

Communication

Education

GCP certifications

FinOps Foundation certifications

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £81,999 - £91,110

LOCATION(S): London

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

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

About this opportunity

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the FinOps Engineering team within Enabling Services. In this pivotal role, you'll enable teams to build cost-effective solutions on GCP while maintaining agility and fostering innovation. This position is perfect for engineers who are passionate about optimising cloud usage, enhancing cost observability, and championing a FinOps culture.

What you'll do

• Partner with engineering, finance and product teams to drive cost-efficiency across GCP

• Design and implement automation to boost cost optimisation

• Build infrastructure and pipelines using Git, Terraform and Harness.

• Contribute to cost visibility by using cost and usage data to enable self-service reporting

• Drive sustainable usage practices (e.g. terminating idle resources, autoscaling)

• Translate technical decisions into cost impacts, surfacing trade-offs to customers

• Work collaboratively across teams to embed cost-awareness into design, development, deployment, and monitoring

What you'll need

• Experience in a DevOps, Platform Engineering or SRE role, with strong hands-on experience in GCP

• Clear understanding of FinOps principles and how they apply to engineering responsibilities

• Experience of Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD and Source Code Management using tools such as Terraform, Jenkins, Harness and Github

• Strong understanding of GCP-native services such as GKE, BigQuery, Cloud Monitoring/Logging, Networking, Security and Identity & Access Management (IAM)

• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Helm

• Familiarity with GCP billing exports, BigQuery datasets, and cost management dashboards

• Proficient in scripting using Python, Bash/shell

• Experience in Agile working practices, Jira and Confluence

• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills

It would be great if you also had

• GCP certifications (e.g. Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer, Professional Cloud Architect)

• FinOps Foundation certifications (e.g. Practitioner, Engineer)

• Familiarity with security tools e.g. Hashicorp Vault, Aquasec, Nexus IQ.

• Knowledge of observability tools e.g. Dynatrace.

• Experience in cost management tools e.g. Cloudability.

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. 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. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!