Senior DevOps Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group, Bristol.
Full-time, Hybrid working.
Salary: £70,929 – £78,810 per annum.
Application deadline: Thursday, 08 January 2026.
Job Description
Join our Payments Lab team as a Senior DevOps Engineer and help shape the future of retail banking as we undergo the largest transformation in the UK banking industry.
Responsibilities
* Accountable for DevOps implementations at the Feature team/Lab level, ensuring all services/implementations are stable, scalable and performant.
* Ensure service levels are appropriate for all DevOps services consumed by the Feature/Lab team.
* Spearhead and support the migration of all Group applications from Google 1.0 to Google 2.0.
* Utilise endorsed technologies and common build patterns to minimise technical debt.
* Create and maintain applications.
* Adhere to Group policies and frameworks for build and release.
* Drive relentless automation of repetitive and tedious tasks (TOIL).
* Actively contribute to Platform and Lab level roadmaps around DevOps pipelines, tooling and technology.
* Support building a strong team by mentoring early‑career engineers and undertaking technical interviews to enable hiring of new engineers.
* Liaise with the Central DevOps function and build your network across the DevOps community within the Group.
Qualifications
* Demonstrable experience of managing applications running in a Cloud environment with operational support, troubleshooting, tuning, upgrade & optimisation.
* High proficiency in managing and deploying applications on public cloud (GCP essential).
* Strong knowledge of Groovy programming language.
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
* Understanding of service mesh concepts and implementations (Istio).
* Demonstrable knowledge of system administration (Ansible).
* Experience with configuration and deployment management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet, Chef).
* Strong knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes and Docker.
* Experience using Dynatrace for dashboarding, monitoring and alerting.
* Understanding of network segmentation and subnetting.
* Experience with Helm for managing Kubernetes applications.
* High proficiency with multiple CI/CD tools (Jenkins / Spinnaker / Harness).
* Knowledge of configuring and managing firewalls for security.
* Strong understanding of information / network security principles and practices.
* Experience with managing secrets and certificates, such as using HashiCorp Vault.
* Demonstrable capability of bootstrapping projects and effectively working with multi‑disciplinary, internal and external distributed teams across the project lifecycle.
* Familiarity with agile development practices, continuous integration and test automation (TDD, BDD, Selenium).
Preferred Experience
* Experience with private and hybrid cloud environments.
* Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation tasks.
* Proficiency in Java, Golang or JavaScript.
Benefits
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance‑related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits that 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
Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from under‑represented groups. If you require reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know.
Contact
For more details, please contact the Lloyds Banking Group Recruitment Team.
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