DevOps Team Lead - Development Platform
U.S. Bank · London ·
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Devops
- Company size
- 1000+
At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.
We actively uphold transparent and fair hiring practices that support individual opportunity, inclusive culture, and career mobility across all levels of our organisation.
We offer meaningful opportunities for growth, a culture of inclusion, and a strong commitment to transparency and integrity in everything we do.
DevOps Team Lead - Development Platform
As a DevOps Team Lead, you will manage a cross-location team while driving CI/CD modernization, infrastructure reliability, and DevOps adoption for a Java/Springboot development department. You'll combine people management with hands-on proficiency in Jenkins, ArgoCD, AWS/Kubernetes, Terraform, and DevSecOps/GitOps practices. You'll be architecting build systems, designing scalable build infrastructure, improving team processes, and collaborating across leadership to deliver technical solutions and roadmap execution.
Main duties
Line Management of a cross location team (onsite / nearshore)
People development, performance, knowledge and skills management
Optimizing team ways of working
Fostering a sense of ownership and collaboration with other department teams
Understanding development teams needs and designing CI/CD solutions (Java/Springboot stack)
Driving observability, reliability and software development technologies adoption in the department
Maintaining, architecting and evolving our development environment to improve efficiency and productivity
Collaboration with ops team on technology adoption in higher environments
Owning, improving and architecting build pipelines
Ensuring maintenance of our Jenkins cluster
Proactively coordinating with tech leadership and peers
Breaking down work programs into phases and actionable work items
Driving refinements, prioritizing work
Arbitrage of project work VS ad-hoc requests
Roadmap planning
About you
Must have
Experience managing senior Individual contributors across locations
Proven track record of onboarding and adapting to new technologies
Strong ownership mindset with effective problem‑solving capabilities
Experience building/packaging JVM based projects with a focus on security compliance
Hands‑on Jenkins experience: shared libraries, declarative/scripted pipelines, Job DSL
Proficient in GitLab code hosting and CI/CD practices
Experience with containers and container orchestration systems
Experience with IaC, cloud computing
Experience with an observability stack
Nice to have
Java/Springboot projects experience
GitOps proficiency with ArgoCD (ApplicationSets, sync policies, multi-environment promotion)
AWS (EKS, EC2, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3) with production-grade reliability experience
Kubernetes workload management, Helm/Helmfile chart authoring, Docker image best practices
Terraform module development and state management for AWS infrastructure
Monitoring with CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK; incident investigation skills
Experience implementing DevSecOps practices across pipelines and infrastructure.
Familiarity with container and IaC vulnerability scanning.
Proficiency with secrets management using External Secrets Operator (ESO) with AWS Secrets Manager/SSM.
Ability to document systems, runbooks, pipelines, and platform processes
Location expectations
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.
Accessibility
We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need adjustments at any stage of the application or hiring process, please contact your recruiter for guidance and support.
Total Rewards
U.S. Bank is committed to fair, equitable, and transparent compensation practices in line with local regulatory and legal requirements. Our total rewards approach is designed to attract, retain, and support top talent while ensuring equal pay for work of equal value.
We offer a market-competitive compensation package that includes:
Clearly defined salary ranges aligned with industry benchmarks and internal equity standards.
Performance-based incentives for eligible employees (as defined by relevant plan rules), awarded through transparent, objective criteria that recognize both individual and company performance.
Inclusive equitable benefits that are accessible to all employees and focused around our 3 main pillars of financial wellbeing, health & wellness).
Continuous development opportunities including training, education support, and career progression pathways based on inclusive and transparent criteria.
Employee recognition programs that celebrate achievements and milestones for all.
We regularly review our compensation and benefits to ensure they remain competitive, inclusive, and responsive to employee needs and market trends. Further details of the compensation package will be provided upon application.
We encourage candidates to explore the full value of our offer, including monetary and non-monetary benefits, at Employee benefits and development | U.S. Bank | Elavon.
Closing Date
Posting may be closed earlier due to high volume of applicants.
We aim to provide timely updates throughout the process and encourage early applications to ensure consideration.