DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid Working

Job Share

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build and operate CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native platforms. You will work across hybrid UK sites and modern engineering stacks to automate deployments and improve security and efficiency.

You’ll gain hands-on experience with Harness, Kubernetes, Terraform and GCP while collaborating with software, quality, and product teams to accelerate delivery and scale our DevOps capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong experience designing, building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with Terraform and IaC principles.
• Hands-on with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and cloud-native services.
• Solid knowledge of Helm, Kubernetes and container orchestration.
• Experience with Docker and containerised deployment; Git workflows.
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash or PowerShell.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

CI/CD design

Cloud-native tech

Automation scripting

Collaboration

Security in pipelines

Backstage (optional)

Observability (optional)

DevSecOps (optional)

Tools

Harness

Terraform

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Git/GitHub

Python (scripting)

Job description

End Date

Thursday 17 September 2026

Salary Range

£48,987 - £54,430

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

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.

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

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.