Senior DevOps Engineer
Lloyds Bank plc
Job Description
**End Date**Wednesday 03 June 2026**Salary Range**£72,702 - £80,780**Flexible Working Options**Job Share**Job Description Summary**.**Job Description****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**About this opportunity**We're the **Colleague Channels Platform** - the team behind the technology that helps colleagues across Branch, Contact Centres and Operations support our customers. We provide shared platforms, tooling and cross-cutting capabilities used by engineering teams across the Group.Within the **Cloud team**, we focus on automation, CI/CD, safety and security, and clear patterns for cloud provisioning and platform use. We design and evolve reusable standards, tooling and guardrails that enable teams to deliver at pace on **GCP and OpenShift**, while remaining secure, resilient and compliant!This is a **senior, hands-on engineering role**, where strong technical capability and an automation-first attitude sit alongside coaching, collaboration and the ability to raise engineering standards across teams!**As a Senior Engineer in the Cloud team, you'll:*** Design and evolve CI/CD pipelines, release automation and shared tooling to improve reliability and developer experience.* Drive automation-first ways of working, reducing manual effort and improving consistency.* Create and maintain Kubernetes and platform patterns that teams can safely adopt and extend.* Define secure, repeatable guardrails and cloud provisioning patterns aligned to central standards.* Partner with and support feature teams through hands-on collaboration, coaching and mentoring.* Continuously improve engineering standards through reviews, shared learning and reusable capabilities.If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong.
We're an innovative, fast-changing business that's shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that's empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.**What you'll need*** Strong hands-on experience designing and running **CI/CD pipelines** across environments.* An **automation-first approach**, with solid scripting skills (e.g. Python and/or Bash) to reduce manual effort.* Practical experience with **Kubernetes and Helm**, with some familiarity with service mesh concepts (such as Istio).* Experience working on **cloud-based platforms**, taking a pragmatic, engineering-led approach.* Working knowledge of **infrastructure-as-code** (e.g.
Terraform) to support automated delivery.* Experience with **observability and monitoring** tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk or similar).* A collaborative approach, with a strong sense of **engineering quality, ownership and continuous improvement**, and a desire to support teams to work better.###Nice to have:* Experience in **application development and testing** environments (e.g. Java, Node.js, React, automated testing).* Exposure to **code quality, security scanning and vulnerability management**.* Experience with **secrets or certificate management** (e.g.
HashiCorp Vault).* Awareness of **cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)**.* Familiarity with **data, messaging or streaming technologies** (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle, Kafka).**About working for us**Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.**We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:*** A generous pension contribution of up to 15%* An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance* Share schemes including free shares* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping* 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies**Join our journey.****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.**With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career.
Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future. #J-18808-Ljbffr