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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.
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!