Senior DevOps Engineer
Location: Leeds, England
Salary: £70,929 – £78,810
End Date: Sunday 14 September 2025
Flexible Working: Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in Leeds office)
Overview
As a Senior DevOps Engineer within the General Insurance (GI) Platform, you’ll be responsible for leading the design, implementation, and maintainability of scalable DevOps pipelines and automation frameworks. You’ll influence tooling choices, promote standards, and advocate DevOps principles.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the strategic direction for engineering delivery.
- Drive an ‘automation first’ culture.
- Lead design and implementation of CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness.
- Architect and manage infrastructure as code with Terraform.
- Orchestrate and automate deployments with Kubernetes, Docker, and Harness.
- Collaborate with teams to implement DevOps tooling and strategies.
- Improve deployment processes, monitoring, and incident response.
- Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting a learning culture.
- Manage budgets related to DevOps tooling and cloud infrastructure.
- Support collaboration and documentation for consistency.
What You’ll Need
- Proven experience in a senior DevOps or cloud engineering role.
- Strong knowledge of Terraform across Windows, Linux, OCP, and GCP.
- Expertise with CI/CD pipelines (Harness, Jenkins, GitLab CI).
- Solid grasp of DevOps principles, cloud security, and SRE practices.
- Familiarity with Agile methodologies (JIRA, Confluence).
- Strong communication, problem-solving, and mentoring skills.
- Awareness of emerging tech such as Generative AI and observability platforms.
- Understanding of networking across cloud and on-premises.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We’re making major investments in people, data, and technology — opening opportunities for innovative projects and fresh possibilities. Our purpose is clear: to help Britain prosper.
Benefits
- Pension contribution up to 15%
- Annual bonus award (subject to performance)
- Share schemes including free shares
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Flexible benefits and wellbeing initiatives
- Generous parental leave policies
Diversity & Inclusion
We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for applicants who meet minimum criteria and have a disability, long-term health, or neurodivergent condition.
Application Process
Interested candidates can apply directly through Lloyds Banking Group Careers. Shortlisted applicants will be contacted for next steps.
