Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Role

Reporting to the Technical Lead DevOps, you are a Senior technical professional, who provides a high degree of technical DevOps and cloud based expertise to the team. You provide the highest standard of technical design, delivery, operation and continual improvement of the cloud based capabilities that underpin the organisations drive towards cloud adoption.

As a senior engineer, you are responsible for contributing technical expertise and thought leadership to cloud based technology strategies, roadmaps and service improvement initiatives. Ensuring Cloud architecture is developed and maintained in line with the D&T strategy, contributing to the strategic direction of the DevOps practice and toolchain and the implementation, deployment, and integration of solutions, taking responsibility for their successful delivery.

Using automation and IaC where possible to improve efficiencies and ensure consistency across environments providing effective monitoring and alerting capability is in place to ensure systems operate as designed. You will also deliver high quality services to agreed service levels and provide support and mentoring to more junior colleagues to raise the technical standards in the team.

About You

You bring a strong technical background relevant to the role, combined with a proven ability to develop, mentor, and lead high-performing teams. You are confident managing supplier relationships and engaging effectively with stakeholders, while demonstrating clear, concise communication in both written and spoken form. You are comfortable challenging where needed, applying sound judgement, and demonstrating effective problem-solving and decision-making skills.

You excel at managing multiple, often complex tasks, consistently meeting deadlines without compromising quality. With strong attention to detail and a resilient mindset, you adapt quickly to changing priorities. You are experienced in risk management and maintain a continuous improvement approach in everything you do.

You have solid experience in leadership, including supervising, mentoring, and motivating others, and are comfortable working within project-based environments. Your background includes working in IT services within regulated, financial services settings, ideally with exposure to NSSL technologies and a managed risk culture. You have experience working with corporate clients, managing suppliers, and delivering change and projects, alongside responsibility for developing and managing service budgets.

About Us

The Newcastle Building Society Group comprises of Newcastle Building Society, Manchester Building Society, Newcastle Financial Advisers and Newcastle Strategic Solutions. Our purpose, connecting our communities with a better financial future inspires and directs our activities. The Group provides traditional financial services, helping people own their own home, plan and manage their finances and operate a 32-branch network across the North-East, North-West, Cumbria and Yorkshire. Our Strategic Solutions subsidiary owns the UK’s leading savings management platform and provides managed technology services to new challenger banks and other established providers.

As an inclusive employer and member owned mutual, we aim to reflect the diverse communities we serve and encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We believe everyone should feel valued, respected, and celebrated for who they are, we want colleagues to feel this is a place they belong. A place to be you.

What do you get in return?

• Financial
• Corporate bonus scheme (on target 10%, up to a maximum 15%)
• Pension scheme (up to 9% employer contribution)
• Annual performance related pay reviews
• Colleague mortgage scheme
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Life assurance (4x salary) and income protection
• Access to our financial advisers
• Access to a range of high street and online discounts

• Work/Life Balance
• A 35-hour weekly contract - We are happy to talk flexible working and welcome discussions
• 30 days’ annual leave + bank holidays
• The option to buy and sell up to 5 days’ holiday
• Hybrid working (typically 3 days’ home based)
• Above statutory family leave entitlement - 3 months full pay, 3 months half pay, regardless of gender or route to parenthood

• Health and Wellbeing
• Private medical insurance
• Access to a health cash plan through a Medicash scheme
• Access to an employee assistance programme
• Free onsite gym at our Cobalt head office and access to discounted gyms
• Two paid volunteering days each year
• Cycle to work scheme

Recognising there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recruitment, we’re committed to ensuring every candidate has the opportunity to showcase their full potential throughout the recruitment process. We strive to make our processes as accessible as possible, if there are any ways in which we can provide support or make adjustments, we would love to discuss this with you, you can contact your Recruiter for this vacancy.

Why work here?

People are the focus of absolutely everything we do. We believe in people, we care deeply about their hopes, their dreams and their wellbeing. And that applies equally to our customers, our communities and our colleagues – which means you, if you choose to work here. It’s important to us that you know if you join us we will welcome you, respect you, encourage you and help you to achieve your goals.