Senior DevOps Engineer

Job Introduction

combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and customer-focused technology. Our technology teams enable the Bank’s decentralised way of working, delivering systems built for stability, trust, and long-term value.

We are on a multi-year technology and digital transformation journey to enhance customer experience and improve how colleagues work together. By modernising platforms, simplifying processes, and better connecting data and systems, we help relationship teams focus on customers and less on complexity.

Our decentralised culture extends to technology. Teams are trusted to take ownership, make informed decisions, and deliver sustainable, high-quality solutions. We value engineering excellence, pragmatic problem-solving, and strong collaboration across technology, business, and risk.

We offer technologists the opportunity to build lasting careers, deepen their expertise, and contribute to meaningful change. We look for people who care about quality, security, long-term impact, and who want to shape the future of a relationship-led bank.

We also recognise that flexibility can support people to perform at their best, and that it looks different for everyone. While arrangements will depend on the requirements of the role and the needs of the business, we are open to having a conversation around what flexibility could look like for you.

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The opportunity

You will be joining the UK Technology (UKT) team and will have a pivotal role in automating and streamlining the software delivery and infrastructure management processes that will underpin the successful delivery of an ambitious IT modernisation programme.

As a senior contributor within the team, you will build relationships with other teams across UKT including the software development and IT operations teams providing expertise and leadership to support improvement of continuous integration, operational and infrastructure-as-code practices enabling the timely delivery of high quality software products.

plc (the Bank) has been a UK subsidiary of Svenska AB in Sweden (Group) since 2018. The Bank is undertaking a significant technology modernisation programme, in this role you will make an invaluable contribution to this by providing tools, processes and expertise to support the delivery of our software products.

The ideal candidate will be a promoter of modern engineering and DevOps practices who will bring a best of breed approach to support the IT modernisation programme. You will spend significant time partnering with technology teams and senior managers with the potential to promote a culture of shared responsibility for system reliability and performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote modern engineering and DevOps practices across the UK technology organisation at the Bank.
• Provide support to engineering teams in improving their software delivery, automation and operational maturity.
• Provide support to and mentor junior members of the teams.
• Balance priorities between existing on-premise applications and tooling and driving our Cloud adoption forwards.
• Implement and manage build pipelines to automate software build, test, and deployment processes to support rapid and reliable releases.
• Design and implement observability capabilities including robust monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions enabling the tracking of system performance, detection of issues, and proactive troubleshooting.
• Manage version control systems (e.g. Git) and ensure best practices are followed for code branching, merging, and repository management.
• Monitor and optimize system performance, identifying bottlenecks and collaborating with developers to resolve issues.
• Ensure appropriate backup, disaster recovery, and failover strategies are in place to ensure business continuity and high availability of applications and services.
• Understand centrally provided capabilities and encourage teams to make the best use of them.
• Influence platform / system teams who are using tools like Bicep and Ansible to automate the provisioning and configuration of infrastructure components, providing expertise and communicating requirements that will ensure consistency and reliability across environments.
• Contribute to the work adopting centrally provider containerization platforms like Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes as well as cloud native services to manage and scale applications efficiently.
• Maintain detailed documentation of infrastructure and operational documentation.

What We’re Looking For

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• Recent strong experience in DevOps practices, including developing build pipelines, automation, and observability, preferably in the banking or financial services sector.
• Proficient in the use of scripting and programming languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Ruby, PowerShell) for automation.
• Significant exposure to CI pipeline tooling (eg. TeamCity, Azure DevOps, Jenkins etc)
• Knowledge of configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible).
• Strong experience of configuring and managing operating systems, particularly Linux, and release and support of applications, particularly Java EE services.
• Experience working with containerisation and orchestration technologies (e.g. Docker and Kubernetes)
• Detailed knowledge of and experience using at least one major cloud platform (preferably Azure) with awareness of comparable services across providers.
• Experience in the use and management of version control systems (e.g. Git) and collaboration tools.
• Good understanding of networking concepts and security practices in cloud environments.…