Senior Dev Ops Engineer in Newport

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options.

Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Newport or Cardiff office sites.

What you’ll be doing:

• Feel motivated by the opportunity to make a lasting positive impact.
• Contribute to the delivery of secure, scalable, and high‑quality DevOps capabilities across cloud‑native platforms. You’ll work closely with colleagues to drive outcomes and support team autonomy.
• Design, build, and operate CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, including federation patterns such as overrides and config maps. You’ll help teams across the platform deploy confidently and independently.
• Engineer Kubernetes‑native solutions across Public and Private Cloud environments, including workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management. You’ll play a key role in ensuring platform resilience and scalability.
• Embed security and compliance into automated workflows by integrating tools such as SonarQube and AquaSec. You’ll contribute to strong guardrails and quality‑first engineering practices.
• Automate manual processes and support the development of self‑service capabilities across teams. You’ll promote an automation‑first approach and reduce operational overhead through robust pipeline and platform engineering.
• Work effectively with a range of collaborators across complex platforms, communicating clearly with both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Contribute to team planning and support the evolution of DevOps capabilities to meet future business needs.
• Help to foster a culture of enablement, where DevOps capabilities are federated and teams can own and operate their delivery pipelines.
• Share knowledge and collaborate within Communities of Practice, supporting continuous improvement through hands‑on learning and experimentation.

What we’re looking for:

• Experience delivering secure, scalable, and high‑quality DevOps capabilities on cloud‑native platforms as part of a multi-functional engineering team.
• Experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitHub, and Terraform, including federation patterns such as overrides and config maps.
• Background in Engineering Kubernetes‑native solutions in GCP environments, covering workload orchestration, Istio‑based networking, and storage class management.
• Experience working with GCP platform services, including databases such as Spanner, BigQuery, and AlloyDB/CloudSQL, as well as GCS buckets and IAM permissions and controls.
• Experience integrating security and quality tools such as SonarQube and AquaSec into automated pipelines to ensure compliance and maintain strong guardrails.
• Background in automating manual processes to improve efficiency and enable self‑service capabilities, applying an automation‑first approach.
• Experience working with multiple collaborators across complex platforms and communicating effectively across technical and non‑technical groups.
• Experience with Liquibase for database schema management and familiarity with Nexus Repository for artefact management (advantageous).
• Exposure to observability platforms such as Dynatrace (advantageous).
• Experience supporting teams in investigating issues and contributing to remediation plans as part of root‑cause analysis after high‑impact incidents (desirable).

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you. 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 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
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to make an impact? Apply today.

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.