Job Summary

The Senior DevOps Engineer will hold accountability for design, implementation, maintenance and support of DevOps pipelines, tooling/automation at a Feature/Lab team level. This will include recommending the right pipeline and tooling choices appropriate for their Feature/Lab accountabilities, in line with Group Strategy.

Role Details

- Position: DevOps Engineer
- Location: Hyderabad
- Years of experience: 8 - 14 years
- Band: E Senior DevOps

Responsibilities

Engineering Platform Leadership

- Provide hands-on technical leadership and mentoring to engineers.
- Define and drive technical strategy, architectural standards, and engineering best practices.
- Lead solution design for scalable batch and real-time data platforms.
- Drive adoption of reusable engineering patterns and automation frameworks.

Cloud Infrastructure Engineering

- Design and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure on GCP.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
- Manage Kubernetes-based platforms and containerised workloads.
- Ensure platform availability, scalability, security, and performance.

DevOps CI/CD

- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Harness, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or equivalent tooling.
- Implement GitOps practices and deployment automation.
- Improve software release processes and developer productivity.
- Promote continuous integration, continuous testing, and continuous delivery.

Data Engineering

- Deliver cloud-native data pipelines and data products.
- Build and optimise data processing solutions using Python, SQL, Spark, BigQuery, and modern data tooling.




- Ensure data quality, lineage, observability, and operational resilience.
- Support data platform migration and modernisation initiatives.

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

- Define monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational support models.
- Drive reliability, resilience, and incident management practices.
- Establish SLAs, SLOs, and operational KPIs.
- Reduce technical debt through automation and proactive engineering improvements.

Stakeholder Management

- Work closely with Product Owners, Engineering Leads, Architects, Security, Cloud Engineering, and business stakeholders.
- Influence solution direction and manage technical dependencies across programmes such as FDP, TS1, HOMCON, and GDW Exit initiatives.
- Support planning, estimation, and roadmap delivery.

Essential Skills

- 8+ years in Data Engineering, DevOps, or Cloud Engineering.
- Solid BigQuery, GKE, IAM, Networking, Dataflow experience (GCP).
- Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
- Kubernetes and Docker.
- CI/CD tooling (Harness preferred).
- Python, SQL, Git, DevOps practices.
- Data platform architecture and solution design.
- Strong stakeholder management and mentoring skills.

Expected Band E Behaviours

- Own technical direction rather than individual tasks.
- Lead and mentor Band D engineers.
- Drive innovation, automation, and platform improvements.
- Influence architecture and delivery decisions.
- Operate as a player-coach, balancing hands-on delivery with leadership responsibilities.

Working Arrangements

Hybrid Working

📌 Senior DevOps Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 Lloyds Technology Centre
📍 Hyderabad