Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Salary: £70,929 - £78,810

Locations - Leeds, West Yorkshire.

Hours: Full time

Agile Working Options: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices

Job Description

About this opportunity

This is your chance to bring your experience of building DevOps pipelines to a bigger stage, working with the latest tech on high profile projects.

As a DevOps Engineer you’ll grow and learn in an environment that truly recognises the importance of a robust DevOps methodology. This is vital work, making sure we release the best-of-breed software and platforms that will have a real impact on customers, businesses and communities across the UK.

You’ll collaborate with cross‑functional engineering teams to support and evolve a Regulatory Risk Model Execution Platform built on Google Cloud. The application ecosystem includes Java Spring Boot microservices, a Next.js‑based frontend, and a Python‑driven model execution layer.

As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be part of a team that is dedicated to transforming our software landscape. Day to day, you’ll be:

• working with the latest DevOps tools, including Kubernetes, ISTIO, Harness
• building solutions on Google infrastructure such as GKE, Cloud Run, Dataproc, Cloud Composer, BigQuery, GCS, CloudSQL, HCV Vault
• working with the Product Owner, Lead Engineer and customers to understand, refine and prioritise items for the feature team backlog, using strong problem-solving skills and a combination of technical knowledge, experience and judgement to identify available options and clearly set-out the way forward.
• coaching and inspiring our software engineering teams, helping them upskill in a relevant technology area
• taking ownership of specific technology or delivery problems and solving them acting as a tireless ambassador for DevOps, both internally and externally.

About us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What you’ll need

We understand no one can be an expert in every aspect of DevOps tooling. So, if you have a strong technical background, we’d like to hear from you.

Specifically, we’re looking for:

• Experience with cloud technology, particularly Google Cloud Platform
• Experience of CI/CD pipelines creation and management such as Harness, Jenkins, GIT, Nexus, Artifactory, Maven, Ant, Gradle, Terraform, GCP Deployment Manager and others
• Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, NewRelic, Splunk, Nagios, Prometheus, Kibana and others
• Experience of continuous testing such as Selenium, Cucumber, SonarQube, Mocha, Zephyr, Veracode and others
• Experience with orchestration such as Docker, Google Kubernetes Engine, Ansible and IaC (e.g. Terraform)
• Ability to understand complex business requirements and create business ready solutions
• Strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, particularly the ability to convey business information arising from technical subject matter to non-technical people.

And any experience of this would be really useful:

• Insights into industry solutions for data management, storage and analytics coupled with experience of financial data, including Credit Risk, capital and impairment processes

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need

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
• 28 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 DevOps team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

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.

If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, please let us know.