DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading bank in Manchester seeks an experienced DevOps Engineer for a hybrid role. You'll champion DevOps principles, design CI/CD pipelines, and manage container orchestration with Docker and Kubernetes. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in DevOps engineering, a strong knowledge of Jenkins and Terraform, and skills in monitoring tools like Dynatrace. This position offers competitive salary, flexible working arrangements, and a comprehensive benefits package, including a pension contribution and holiday entitlement.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

30 days' holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience in DevOps engineering and CI/CD pipeline design.
• Strong knowledge of Jenkins, Git, Nexus, Maven, and Terraform.
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.
• Familiarity with Harness for deployment automation.
• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools: Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana.

Responsibilities

• Champion DevOps principles and modern engineering practices across teams.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using relevant tools.
• Use Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Deploy and manage applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions for system health.

Skills

DevOps engineering

CI/CD pipeline design

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Monitoring solutions

Cloud-native architectures

Tools

Jenkins

Git

Nexus

Maven

Dynatrace

Splunk

Prometheus

Kibana

Harness

Job description

JOB TITLE: DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £85,000 per annum

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours

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

About this opportunity

Exciting opportunity for a hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our Voice, Workforce Intelligence team. You'll play a key role in shaping how we deliver software at scale, driving automation, and embedding best practices across our engineering workflows. This is a technical role for someone passionate about building resilient, secure, and efficient systems. You'll be instrumental in evolving our CI/CD pipelines, optimising cloud-native deployments, and ensuring our platforms are future-ready.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI by embedding fairness, transparency, and accountability at the heart of innovation. You'll join us at an exciting time as we move into the next phase of our transformation. We're looking for curious, passionate engineers who thrive on innovation and want to make a real impact.

About us

We're on an exciting journey and there couldn't be a better time to join us. The investments we're making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

What you'll do

• Lead and Influence Ways of Working - Champion DevOps principles and modern engineering practices across teams, fostering a culture of automation and continuous improvement.

• Build and Optimise CI/CD Pipelines - Design, implement, and maintain pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Git, Nexus, and Maven to enable fast, reliable software delivery.

• Infrastructure as Code - Use Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring scalability and compliance.

• Containerisation and Orchestration - Deploy and manage applications using Docker and Kubernetes, optimising for performance and resilience.

• Monitoring and Observability - Implement and maintain monitoring solutions with Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, and Kibana to ensure system health and proactive issue resolution.

• Continuous Deployment and Release Strategies - Work with tools like Harness to enable automated deployments and advanced release strategies.

• Security and Compliance - Embed security best practices into pipelines and infrastructure, ensuring adherence to governance and regulatory standards.

What you'll need

• Proven experience in DevOps engineering and CI/CD pipeline design.

• Strong knowledge of Jenkins, Git, Nexus, Maven, and Terraform.

• Hands‑on experience with Docker and Kubernetes for container orchestration.

• Familiarity with Harness for deployment automation.

• Expertise in monitoring and observability tools: Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Kibana.

• Strong understanding of cloud‑native architectures and infrastructure automation.

• Excellent problem‑solving skills and ability to work in Agile environments.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

It would be great if you had any of the following

• Experience with cost optimisation and autoscaling strategies in cloud environments.

• Knowledge of security automation and compliance frameworks.

• Familiarity with performance tuning and advanced deployment strategies.

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. 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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey!