End Date
Sunday 05 July 2026Salary Range
£72,702 - £80,780We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer
SALARY: £72,702 - £80,000
LOCATION(S): Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location
- Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and release automation to support reliable delivery
- Promote automation-first ways of working to reduce manual effort and increase consistency
- Develop and share reusable Kubernetes and platform patterns
- Help define secure, repeatable cloud provisioning approaches aligned to central standards
- Work closely with feature teams, offering hands-on support, coaching and guidance
- Contribute to improving engineering standards through collaboration, reviews and shared learning
- Experience designing and running CI/CD pipelines across different environments
- A passion for automation, with scripting skills (e.g. Python or Bash)
- Experience working with Kubernetes and Helm, and an awareness of service mesh concepts (such as Istio)
- Experience working with cloud platforms, using a pragmatic, engineering-led approach
- Working knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
- Experience with observability or monitoring tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk or similar)
- A collaborative mindset, with a focus on quality, ownership and continuous improvement
- Application development or testing environments (e.g. Java, Node.js, React, automated testing)
- Code quality, security scanning or vulnerability management
- Secrets or certificate management tools (e.g. HashiCorp Vault)
- Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)
- Data, messaging or streaming technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle, Kafka)
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus, subject to Group performance
- Share schemes, including free shares
- Flexible benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle (including discounted shopping)
- 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing support and generous family leave policies
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
Skills Required
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Istio and Helm
- Proven cloud platform experience across GCP and OCP
- Understanding of technical architecture and Microservice design principles
- Experience of continuous monitoring such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana
- Strong automation skills in infrastructure as code and scripting
What We Do
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good. We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs. The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.
