DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution (up to 15%)

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes (including free shares)

Discounted shopping

28 days’ holiday + bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer to design, build and support CDCI pipelines across private and public clouds. You’ll work with modern engineering platforms, focusing on automation, reliability and security to enable faster threat intelligence delivery.

You will collaborate with software, quality engineers and product owners to remove bottlenecks and improve tooling, while embedding security controls into pipelines and governance.

Qualifications

• Designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (Harness or equivalent) with at least 2 years experience.
• Hands-on Terraform and IaC implementation for cloud environments (2+ years).
• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and cloud-native services (2+ years).
• Strong Kubernetes knowledge and container orchestration (1+ year).
• Experience with Docker and container deployment (2 years).
• Solid Git/GitHub usage and source control best practices (2+ years).
• Scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell or similar).

Responsibilities

• Developing and supporting build, test, and deployment pipelines using Harness, Git, Nexus, and Docker.
• Work with cloud-native technologies, Kubernetes, containers, networking and platform services in cloud environments.
• Create and maintain automation for infrastructure, environments, and deployment processes.
• Collaborate with engineers to remove bottlenecks, automate tasks, and speed up delivery.
• Embed security controls into engineering processes and ensure policy-compliant pipelines.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform & IaC

Google Cloud Platform

Kubernetes & container orchestration

Docker

Git & GitHub

Scripting & automation

Backstage / dev portal (optional)

Tools

Harness

Job description

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.

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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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