Senior DevOps Engineer - FinOps - Enabling Services

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

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer to enhance cloud cost efficiency and automation strategies in their FinOps Engineering team. This role is vital for developing innovative solutions on GCP, ensuring agile operations that meet customer and business needs while championing a culture of continuous improvement. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in cloud technologies, excellent communication skills, and a passion for optimizing engineering practices.

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.
• Strong hands-on experience in GCP required.
• Clear understanding of FinOps principles needed.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering, finance and product teams for cost efficiency.
• Implement automation to improve cost optimisation.
• Build infrastructure and pipelines using Git, Terraform and Harness.

Skills

GCP

Automation

Cost Optimization

Scripting

Communication

Tools

Terraform

Git

Jenkins

Harness

Job description

End Date

Friday 18 July 2025

Salary Range

£81,999 - £91,110

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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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!

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.