Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary: £70,929 - £91,110
Location: Bristol, Edinburgh or London
Hours:  Full time

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol, Edinburgh or 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. Join us on our journey and you will too… 

About this opportunity… 

Exciting opportunity for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join the Commercial Lending Platform, as a Senior DevOps Engineer you’ll hold accountability for design, implementation, maintenance and support of DevOps pipelines, tooling/automation at a Feature/Lab team level. This will include recommending the right pipeline and tooling choices appropriate for their Feature/Lab accountabilities, in line with Group Strategy 

We're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to drive our ambitions to grow our business, focus on improving the client experience, and change how we work. Become part of our diverse team, and you'll experience a rare opportunity to make a difference to the lives of millions through our brands like Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Bank (among others).

What you’ll do

We’re looking to recruit a Senior DevOps Engineer who can help build out our automation capabilities and apply DevOps practices to our route to live.

• Accountable for DevOps implementations at a Feature team/Lab level, ensuring all services/implementations are stable, scalable and performant. 

• You'll work in a highly collaborative way, working closely with other DevOps specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers and partner resources.

• You’ll love learning new techniques and programming languages; you’re a keen problem solver and you’re willing to leave your comfort zone every now and then.

• Have a passion for DevOps engineering, adopting the mentality of a curious engineer that can own problems and use initiative to improve.

• Relish working alongside feature teams that develop Java microservice code, helping them continuously improve.

• Support our transition to containerisation and cloud technologies.

• Identification of opportunities to automate and simplify, so we can deliver better quality products for our customers.

• Support building a strong team by mentoring early career engineers to advance their technical skills, and by undertaking technical interviews to enable us to hire new engineers 

• Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt 

• Ensuring service levels are appropriate for all DevOps services consumed by the Feature/Lab team 

What you’ll need

• You’ll have Azure DevOps experience, you’re someone who knows what it's all about and you're up for the challenge of helping us on our Azure DevOps journey!

• Experience of CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Maven, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Harness.

• Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana.

• Solid coaching expertise, working alongside our feature teams to assist them in understanding a DevOps approach to enable them to contribute themselves.

• Common programming and scripting languages and frameworks e.g. Node.JS  & REACT

• Technical architecture and Microservice design principles.

It would be great if you had…

• Experience with Kafka ecosystem and event-driven architectures, including Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Schema Registry.

• Advanced Kubernetes skills, including managing ingress controllers, implementing service mesh solutions (like Istio or Linkerd), and handling stateful applications.

• Experience implementing observability patterns across distributed systems using tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and distributed tracing solutions.

• Hands-on experience with infrastructure automation using Terraform specifically for Azure resources.

• Ability to drive architectural decisions related to CI/CD and infrastructure

• Knowledge of security practices in cloud environments (DevSecOps)

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people?

Join our journey