End Date
Monday 16 March 2026
Salary Range
£72,702 - £80,780
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer
LOCATION: Newport
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, minimum 40% in the office
Pay Range: £70,929 - £86,691
About the Role
Your role will be part of a cross-disciplinary feature team in addition to being a highly experienced member of our wider Lloyds engineering team delivery change. As part of these teams, you'll be expected to demonstrate and apply outstanding software engineering practices and skills, whilst working in a collaborative and agile environment. You’ll learn new skills, technologies and approaches to software development as well as benefiting from a culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.
Where You’ll Make a Difference
- Collaborate with the Product Owner, Customer Journey Manager, Quality Engineers and Business SMEs to design, develop and integrate software features on the product roadmaps that meets customer needs. Lead within the team across technology domains in areas of ambiguity, complexity and criticality to build flexible software solutions without over engineering.
- Define complete software solutions that are considered, pragmatic and clear; knowing when it's appropriate to make trade-offs against the target architecture.
- Engineer software solutions that are stable, scalable, performant, accessible, testable, and secure. Utilising endorsed technologies and applying common build patterns to minimise technical debt. Adhering to group policies and frameworks for build and release.
- Participate in team ceremonies to better understand the work through planning, commit to clear achievable goals, drive appropriate prioritisation, escalate impediments, to manage external dependencies adequately, act on learnings and demonstrate successes.
- Enable the team's effectiveness to advance by leading design discussions, creating a shared understanding of the existing codebase, actively participating in code reviews, looking for reuse whilst being mindful of dependencies, identifying opportunities to automate repetitive manual tasks and setting appropriate team development practices.
- Partner with peers and senior software engineers to advance shared capabilities for a given domain by contributing to the definition, delivery, and rollout of the technical roadmap. Promote common solutions and foster reuse to avoid complexity and duplicative waste. Seeking to adopt the groups tooling capabilities as these mature to access gains through automation in relation to pace, quality, and safety.
- Promote active application custodianship by participating in incident root-cause analysis to identify and act on learnings. Elevate the security, maintenance, and resilience posture to foster investment in compliance findings, wastage, risks and gaps.
- Support building a strong team by mentoring existing engineers to advance their technical skills, and by undertaking technical interviews [paired-programming and system design etc] to enable us to hire new engineers with confidence.
- Invest to develop your technical and agile skills.
Key Skills Required:
We need knowledge of Cloud, Containerisation and DevOps with depth of experience in the following technologies from a Full-Stack Engineer.
- Ansible product suite.
- Jenkins, Gerrit/GitLab,
- Nexus,
- Sonarqube,
- HAProxy
- PostgreSQL.
- GitHub Enterprise.
- IBM Urbancode Deploy
- Red Hat Linux
- IBM Websphere
- Liberty core and IBM IHS (Apache).
- IBM cloud platform.
- OpenShift Cloud platform for Kubernetes containers
- Certificate management
- Linux SPNEGO
- Kerberos
- NodeJS/JavaScript
Desirable Skills:
We like people who come from diverse backgrounds that can bring new and challenging ways of thinking to the team.
- Strong understanding of an entire application stack, both breadth and depth, and an exposure to microservices technologies
- A sound understanding of Git, source code management and managing change.
- Knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration, and test automation (e.g. TDD, BDD, Selenium) and automated System testing tools.
- Exceptional proficiency in JavaScript development and comprehensive in Knowledge of modern application frameworks specifically Nodejs. With an understanding of how to craft low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications.
- Technical understanding of the following: Cloud Databases (Structured and unstructured), Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience working on public cloud environments e.g. Google GCP
- Experience in acting as a coach or mentor to other team members in adoption of new ways of working or development of their technical capabilities.
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.
- 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.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.