Senior DevOps Engineer
| Posting date: | 16 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £70,929 to £86,691 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 December 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, Bristol, BS1 5LF |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Lloyds Banking Group |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 147715_1765878081 |
Summary
JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £86,691per annum
LOCATION: Bristol
HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least
two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY
Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Group strategic view by working closely & collaboratively across the Platform leadership team to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. PEC enables & delivers personalised customer communications & experiences across all channels, media and business areas supporting the Customer Relationship Growth strategy to deepen relationships with our customers across both the retail & commercial bank. This includes the data, analytics, and technology to unlock the value of differentiating our branded channel experiences, proposition, price and communication; as well as paper-free sustainable ambitions.
This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a DevOps Engineer. As the DevOps Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
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You will be responsible for supporting build and deployment processes for applications on both Private and Public cloud - API based, event driven, batch processing.
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You'll focus on the DevOps elements of the software and data engineering role, helping us to deploy software and data processing microservices regularly and smoothly while continuously improving and developing our processes.
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You'll help implement DevOps and infrastructure tooling, like Jenkins, GitHub, Harness, Docker, Istio and to continuously maintain & improve our platforms.
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You'll be involved in delivering & maintaining various pipeline standards for teams covering build, test, security, performance, release processes etc.
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Build and deploy automation Observability solutions (Logging, Monitoring, Metrics, Alerting)
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Support and work alongside cross functional different agile teams on latest technologies
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Iterate the best practices to increase the quality of deployments
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Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering teams
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
An ideal DevOps Engineer will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence. We are looking for a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You'll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.
We would be looking for the following...
We are looking for someone who comes from a software engineering or database engineering background that has a solid understanding of DevOps practices, processes and supporting tools.
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Software or Data Engineering background and experience with programming languages such as Java, Python and bash scripting
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Proven experience and understanding of modern engineering practices in streaming, databases, ETL pipelines and orchestration of data pipelines (Airflow)
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DevOps Tools (CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Sonar, Nexus, GIT, Docker Containers)
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Test Automation Tools Junit, Cucumber, Selenium, Postman, K6/JMeter
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Passion for collaborating with other engineers and building a strong team culture
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Proven experience innovating in automation to improve resilience, release frequency and promoting a DevOps culture in delivery teams
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Exposure to cloud technology (ideally GCP) and hands-on experience with databases (ie: Postgres), batch and event streaming (Kafka, Pub/Sub)
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Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform
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Exposure to data lineage tooling
ABOUT WORKING FOR US
If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
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 performance-related bonus
* 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.
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