Join us as a DevOps Engineer
- This is an opportunity for a driven individual to take on an exciting new career challenge
- You’ll focus on enhancing the integration of development and platform activities to improve deployment and system reliability
- It’s a chance to have a tangible effect on our function, put your existing skills to the test and advance your career
- We're offering this role at associate vice president level
As a DevOps Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing and implementing solutions, driving automation, and optimising performance across the software development lifecycle. You’ll be securing buy-in to DevOps methodologies from the Product Owner, Platform Lead, and other key business stakeholders, driving commitment to an alternative way of working.
We’ll look to you to build and leverage internal and external relationships to make sure that decisions made are commercially focused and create long-term value for the bank. You’ll also be collaborating in the development of the DevOps strategy and roadmap aligned with business goals.
In addition, you’ll be:
- Designing and overseeing the architecture of systems and applications with a focus on scalability and reliability
- Analysing system performance and optimising infrastructure to improve efficiency and reduce costs
- Driving innovation by evaluating and integrating new technologies that enhance the DevOps ecosystem
- Leading the automation of advanced workflows, creating reusable modules and templates
- Making sure that practices align with compliance requirements and industry standards
- Communicating effectively with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide technical guidance
To take on this role, you’ll need to drive adoption of DevOps ways of working by securing buy‑in from product owners, platform leads, and key business stakeholders. You'll also advise platform, CoE, and feature teams on targeted DevOps capability improvements aligned to their maturity and needs.
You’ll also need:
- Experience in design, implement, and scale cloud-native DevOps solutions using Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, and advanced automation
- Knowledge and experience of Agile ways of working
- Experience of deploying business critical systems to production on a daily continuous basis
- Ensure systems are secure, observable, resilient, and cost‑efficient through cloud security, SRE practices, HA/DR, FinOps, and chaos engineering
- Knowledge of portfolio management theories, models, and practices, within an Agile or DevOps environment
Hours
45Job Posting Closing Date:
21/05/2026Skills Required
- Experience in design, implement, and scale cloud-native DevOps solutions
- Knowledge and experience of Agile ways of working
- Experience of deploying business critical systems to production
- Knowledge of portfolio management theories, models, and practices
What We Do
We’re a business that understands when our customers and people succeed, our communities succeed, and our economy thrives. As part of our purpose, we’re looking at how we can drive change for our communities in enterprise, learning and climate. As one of the leading supporters of UK business, we’re prioritising enterprise as a force of change. We’re focusing on the people and communities who have traditionally faced the highest barriers to entry and figuring out ways to remove these. Learning is also key to our continued growth as a company in an ever changing and increasingly digital world. By setting a dynamic and leading learning culture, our people prosper, and our customers are given the tools to continue to improve their financial capability and confidence. One of the biggest challenges we all face in our future is climate change. That’s why we’ve put it right at the core of our purpose. We want to champion climate solutions with financing and entrepreneurial support, fully embed climate into our culture and decision making, and be climate positive by 2025. We’re committed to using our purpose to break down barriers, drive change and ultimately create a great place to work.
