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JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer
LOCATION: Newport
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office
Pay Range: £70,929 - £86,691
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
Are you ready to join our Transport Platform team and help us to shape and deliver the next phase of our transformation?
The role sits within the Transport Platform, which is a key member of the wider Consumer Lending Business Unit. Our mission is to keep Britain moving by providing customer focused solutions to facilitate access to vehicles, maintenance, and related services including Digital account management. We are committed to supporting the Group and wider UK in driving forward the sustainability agenda.
In pursuit of our mission, we are on a journey to transform our core technology architecture and the technical capabilities of our colleagues. We’re investing heavily in simplifying and modernising our technology architecture by developing new digital journeys, enabled by microservices, and leveraging a new data ecosystem. All using modern frameworks and native Cloud capabilities. Whilst embedding DevOps and Agile working practices to enable feature teams to increase autonomy and effectiveness.
As a Senior DevOps Engineer, you’ll work in a team of engineers to design, develop and integrate software features to achieve their goals. Working within a Feature Team, across Labs alongside Engineering Leads, Product Owners and Quality Engineers to achieve technology outcomes in respect of engineering enablement.
WHERE YOU’LL MAKE A DIFFERENCE
You should feel excited by the prospect of making lasting positive impact through:
1. You should feel motivated by the opportunity to make a lasting positive impact through:
2. Contributing to the delivery of secure, scalable, and high‑quality DevOps capabilities across cloud‑native platforms. You’ll work closely with colleagues to drive outcomes and support team autonomy.
3. Designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, including federation patterns such as overrides and config maps. You’ll help teams across the platform deploy confidently and independently.
4. Engineering Kubernetes‑native solutions across Public and Private Cloud environments, including workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management. You’ll play a key role in ensuring platform resilience and scalability.
5. Embedding security and compliance into automated workflows by integrating tools such as SonarQube and AquaSec. You’ll contribute to strong guardrails and quality‑first engineering practices.
6. Automating manual processes and supporting the development of self‑service capabilities across teams. You’ll promote an automation‑first mindset and reduce operational overhead through robust pipeline and platform engineering.
7. Working effectively with a range of stakeholders across complex platforms, communicating clearly with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
8. Contributing to team planning and supporting the evolution of DevOps capabilities to meet future business needs.
9. Helping to foster a culture of enablement, where DevOps capabilities are federated and teams can own and operate their delivery pipelines.
10. Sharing knowledge and collaborating within Communities of Practice, supporting continuous improvement through hands‑on learning and experimentation.
WHY LLOYDS BANKING GROUP?
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're inspired by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are passionate about making a difference to customers, businesses, and communities.
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. Join us on our journey and you will too. We'll take your personal and professional development seriously and provide opportunity to shape the financial services of the future.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE:
11. To be considered for – and successful in – this role, you will need to demonstrate significant hands‑on experience in several of these key areas:
12. Delivering secure, scalable, and high‑quality DevOps capabilities on cloud‑native platforms as part of a cross‑functional engineering team.
13. Designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, including federation patterns such as overrides and config maps.
14. Engineering Kubernetes‑native solutions in GCP environments, covering workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management.
15. Working with GCP platform services, including databases such as Spanner, BigQuery, and AlloyDB/CloudSQL, as well as GCS buckets and IAM permissions and controls.
16. Integrating security and quality tools such as SonarQube and AquaSec into automated pipelines to ensure compliance and maintain strong guardrails.
17. Automating manual processes to improve efficiency and enable self‑service capabilities, applying an automation‑first approach.
18. Working with multiple stakeholders across complex platforms and communicating effectively across technical and non‑technical groups.
19. Experience with Liquibase for database schema management and familiarity with Nexus Repository for artefact management (advantageous).
20. Exposure to observability platforms such as Dynatrace (advantageous).
21. Experience supporting teams in investigating issues and contributing to remediation plans as part of root‑cause analysis after high‑impact incidents (desirable).
This role is highly hands‑on. You will be writing, maintaining, and supporting production‑grade code, with a strong focus on producing scalable, modular, and reusable solutions. You’ll also ensure a high degree of enterprise‑level control, including parallelism, runaway protection, and cost‑optimisation across the services you help to build and operate.
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.
22. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
23. An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
24. Share schemes including free shares
25. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
26. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
27. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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.