DevOps Engineer | Manchester

Lloyds Bank plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 72,000 - 81,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK bank is seeking a DevOps Engineer to join their Voice, Workforce Intelligence team in Manchester. You will play a crucial role in driving automation and shaping robust engineering workflows. The role involves optimizing CI/CD pipelines, managing cloud deployments, and ensuring system efficiency through monitoring solutions. This position offers a competitive salary range of £72,702 – £80,780 and hybrid working options allowing flexibility in your schedule. Join a transformative organization focused on innovation and inclusivity.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus

Share schemes

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Generous parental leave policies

Responsibilities

• Champion DevOps principles and modern engineering practices.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Use Terraform to provision and manage cloud infrastructure.
• Deploy and manage applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement and maintain monitoring solutions.
• Work with tools to enable automated deployments.
• Embed security practices into pipelines and infrastructure.

Skills

DevOps engineering experience

CI/CD pipeline design

Jenkins

Git

Infrastructure as Code with Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Monitoring tools (Dynatrace, Splunk)

Problem-solving

Agile environments

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Dynatrace

Splunk

Prometheus

Kibana

Harness

Job description

Job Title: DevOps Engineer
Employer: Lloyds Bank plc
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Salary Range: £72,702 – £80,780
Employment Type: Permanent
Reference Number: 151a9435-66f2-5492-80e7-7ce348ffbfcd

Job Details

End Date Thursday 15 January 2026 salary range £72,702 – £80,780 flexible working options hybrid working, job share job description summary . 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. 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:
  1. Experience with cost optimisation and autoscaling strategies in cloud environments.
  2. Knowledge of security automation and compliance frameworks.
  3. 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.

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.