DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounts & lifestyle benefits

28 days holiday

Wellbeing & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Bank plc in Edinburgh is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native tooling, contributing to safer, faster software delivery across our environments.

You will collaborate with software engineers, security teams and product owners to automate builds, tests and deployments, to host workloads on Kubernetes and cloud services, and to embed security controls into the development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 2+ years experience designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with Harness or equivalent tooling.
• Hands-on Terraform and IaC implementation experience.
• Proven experience with GCP and cloud-native services.
• Solid understanding of Helm, Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Hands-on Docker experience and containerised deployments.
• Strong Git/GitHub and source control practices.
• Scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• Developing and supporting build, test, and deployment pipelines.
• Working with cloud-native technologies to host applications across cloud environments.
• Automating infrastructure and deployment processes for consistency.
• Collaborating with engineers to remove bottlenecks and improve tooling.
• Embedding security controls and ensuring pipeline compliance.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Git

Scripting (Python)

Bash

PowerShell

Backstage

Observability

DevSecOps

Tools

Harness

Nexus

Google Cloud Platform

Job description

Job Description Summary

A DevOps Engineer will focus on assisting in the design, development and maintenance of DevOps pipelines and associated technologies and tooling, gaining practical experience whilst working under the guidance of senior DevOps engineers.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £48,987-£59,873

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Bristol, Manchester, Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

Our Threat Intelligence Engineering team builds and maintains the platforms, integrations and automations that help turn intelligence into action. We work across a range of security and intelligence tooling, connecting data sources, automating workflows and developing services that enable analysts and security teams to make better decisions, faster. As a DevOps Engineer, you'll play a key role in designing, building and supporting the CDCI Pipelines infrastructure and services that underpin our threat intelligence capability. You'll be working on modern engineering platforms and cloud-native solutions, helping to improve the quality, accessibility and value of intelligence across the organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Developing and supporting build, test, and deployment pipelines using tools such as Harness, Git, Nexus, and Docker, ensuring software can be released safely and consistently.
• Work with cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, containers, networking, and platform services to host and operate applications across private and public cloud environments.
• Create and maintain automation for infrastructure, environments, and deployment processes, reducing manual effort and improving consistency across development and production platforms.
• Work closely with software engineers, quality engineers, and product owners to remove bottlenecks, automate repetitive tasks, improve tooling, and accelerate software delivery.
• Embed security controls into engineering processes, enforce approved build and release patterns, and ensure pipelines comply with policies and frameworks.

Why join us

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

What we’re looking for

• Strong experience designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Harness or equivalent enterprise CI/CD tooling. (2 years)
• Proven experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles. (2 years)
• Hands‑on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud‑native services. (2 year)
• Strong understanding of Helm, Kubernetes and container orchestration. (1 year)
• Hands‑on experience with Docker and containerised application deployment. (2 years)
• Strong knowledge of Git, GitHub and source control best practices. (2 years)
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar).
• And any of these would be great:
  • Experience with Backstage or similar developer portal technologies.
  • Experience with observability, monitoring and SRE practices.
  • Knowledge of DevSecOps, platform security and policy-as-code approaches.
  • Experience building reusable developer self-service capabilities, templates and golden paths.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers.

Just let us know what you need.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental 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.