Lead DevOps Engineer (81263)

JOB TITLE: Lead DevOps Engineer

LOCATION: Newport

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office

Pay Range: £90,440 - £106,400

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 DevOps Lead 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: 

• Leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable, and high-quality DevOps capabilities across cloud-native platforms. You’ll apply technical leadership to drive outcomes and foster team autonomy.  
• Designing and orchestrating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, with a focus on federation patterns like overrides and config maps. You’ll enable teams across the platform to self-serve and deploy with confidence.  
• Engineering Kubernetes-native solutions across Public and Private cloud environments, including workload orchestration, Istio-based networking, and storage class management. You’ll ensure platform resilience and scalability.  
• Building secure and compliant DevOps workflows by integrating tools like SonarQube and AquaSec into automated pipelines. You’ll enforce guardrails and embed quality assurance from the start.  
• Automating manual processes and enabling self-service capabilities across teams. You’ll champion an automation-first mindset and reduce operational overhead through robust pipeline design.  
• Applying strong stakeholder management across complex platforms, balancing competing priorities and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.  
• Strategic planning and roadmap development, looking 6–12 months ahead to evolve DevOps capabilities in line with business needs. You’ll schedule work and anticipate future demand.  
• Fostering a culture of enablement, where DevOps capabilities are federated—not centralised—empowering teams to own and operate their delivery pipelines.  
• Mentoring and collaborating across Communities of Practice, driving continuous improvement through shared learning, experimentation, and leadership. 

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: 

To be considered for and successful in this role, you will need to be able to demonstrate experience in: 

• Providing technical leadership across cross-functional teams, delivering secure, scalable, and high-quality DevOps capabilities on cloud-native platforms. 
• Designing and orchestrating CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, with a focus on federation patterns including overrides and config maps. 
• Engineering Kubernetes-native solutions across GCP environments, including workload orchestration, Istio-based networking, and storage class management. 
• Working with GCP platform services, including databases such as Spanner, BigQuery, and AlloyDB/CloudSQL, as well as GCS buckets and IAM permissions and controls. 
• Embedding security and quality assurance into automated pipelines using tools like SonarQube and AquaSec to enforce guardrails and ensure compliance. 
• Automating manual processes and enabling self-service capabilities across teams, with a strong automation-first mindset. 
• Managing multiple stakeholders across complex platforms, balancing competing priorities and communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences. 
• Planning and prioritising DevOps capability roadmaps, looking 6–12 months ahead to align with strategic goals. 
• Experience with Liquibase for database schema management and familiarity with Nexus Repository for artefact management would be advantageous. 
• Exposure to observability platforms such as Dynatrace. 
• Experience working with teams to investigate and define remediation plans as part of root cause analysis following high-impact incidents is desirable. 

Our focus is to ensure we are 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 is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would 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  

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more! Join our journey!  

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses, and communities. 

Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the opportunity to make a real difference, together. 

As part of the Group's commitments as a result of ring-fencing legislation, colleagues based in the Crown Dependencies are required to be exclusively dedicated to the non-ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries. This means that colleagues who are based in the Crown Dependencies would not be able to undertake roles for the Ring-Fenced Bank from their existing location and would need to consider relocation when applying for roles.