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Senior DevOps Engineer

Full Time Information Technology

Job Description

End Date

Sunday 05 July 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £80,780

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior DevOps Engineer

SALARY: £72,702 - £80,000

LOCATION(S): Manchester

HOURS:  Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location

About this opportunity

We’re looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to join our Colleague Channels Platform team.
In this role, you’ll help build the automation, tools and engineering standards that enable teams to deliver software more quickly, safely and reliably.
Our team supports colleagues across Branch, Contact Centres and Operations. We create shared platforms and tools that make it easier for engineering teams across the Group to do their best work.
Within our Cloud team, we focus on automation, CI/CD, security and simple, reusable cloud patterns. We aim to make it easy for teams to build and run services on GCP and OpenShift in a secure, resilient and compliant way.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll combine technical expertise with collaboration and coaching to help raise engineering standards across multiple teams.
It’s a great opportunity to shape how software is delivered across the organisation while continuing to develop your own skills in a supportive environment.

What you’ll be doing

  • Design and improve CI/CD pipelines and release automation to support reliable delivery
  • Promote automation-first ways of working to reduce manual effort and increase consistency
  • Develop and share reusable Kubernetes and platform patterns
  • Help define secure, repeatable cloud provisioning approaches aligned to central standards
  • Work closely with feature teams, offering hands-on support, coaching and guidance
  • Contribute to improving engineering standards through collaboration, reviews and shared learning

What you’ll need

We know no candidate will meet every requirement. If your experience is close to what we’re looking for, we’d encourage you to apply.
  • Experience designing and running CI/CD pipelines across different environments
  • A passion for automation, with scripting skills (e.g. Python or Bash)
  • Experience working with Kubernetes and Helm, and an awareness of service mesh concepts (such as Istio)
  • Experience working with cloud platforms, using a pragmatic, engineering-led approach
  • Working knowledge of infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
  • Experience with observability or monitoring tools (e.g. Dynatrace, Prometheus, Splunk or similar)
  • A collaborative mindset, with a focus on quality, ownership and continuous improvement

It would be helpful if you also have experience in

  • Application development or testing environments (e.g. Java, Node.js, React, automated testing)
  • Code quality, security scanning or vulnerability management
  • Secrets or certificate management tools (e.g. HashiCorp Vault)
  • Cloud cost optimisation (FinOps)
  • Data, messaging or streaming technologies (e.g. PostgreSQL, Oracle, Kafka)

About working with 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. 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. 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.

Our benefits

We offer a wide-ranging and flexible benefits package, including:
  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
  • An annual bonus, subject to Group performance
  • Share schemes, including free shares
  • Flexible benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle (including discounted shopping)
  • 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Wellbeing support and generous family leave policies

Ready to apply?

If you’re excited by the opportunity to improve how teams build and deliver technology at scale, we’d love to hear from you.
Join us and do work that makes a real difference to millions of people.

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.

Lloyds Banking Group
About Lloyds Banking Group

 

We're changing financial services, and we want you to join us.

We're the UK's largest financial services group, with our 25 million customers and a history stretching back more than 300 years.

We pride ourselves on creating a great environment for colleagues to work in, one which is inclusive and driven by our values. This is critical to our business success as we know that colleagues who can show up to work as themselves are those that bring their best.

We're an inclusive and open organisation with a scale that creates a vast range of roles and opportunities. We offer a plenty of options for continual personal growth and you'll be part of a culture which embraces diversity of talent, creativity, skills and thinking among our teams.

 

 

Workplace Initiatives

Opportunities for people returning from a career break

Yes our Returner opportunities offer a career path to candidates with a 18 month year break in their career’ with ‘Yes, our Returner opportunities are aimed at candidates who have had a 18 month or more career break

Leadership development programmes?

Yes

Mentoring programmes?

Yes

Coaching programmes?

Yes

Employee-led diversity networks?

Yes

Internal women’s networking groups?

Yes

Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage?

Yes

No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary:

 20 weeks based on full pay + 19 weeks at the current statutory maternity pay rate

Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave:

No qualifying service period

No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary:

6 weeks

Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave:

No qualifying service period

Gender pay gap reporting information (insert year) (UK): 2022

Average pay gap:

 30.5%

Median pay gap:

33.6%

Average bonus gap:

 62.5%

Median bonus gap:

69.5%

Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter?

Yes

Targets to raise the number of women in leadership?

Yes

Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership?

Yes

Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index?

Yes

Flexible Working Policy

We take pride in being a leader in flexibility and offer a wide array of flexible working options for different circumstances. How you work and the options available will depend on the role you're in, but we aim to offer the flexibility needed by everyone.

For many of our office-based roles, we work in hybrid ways, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. Dependent on your role, other flexible options may be available, such as part-time or compressed hours, complete home-working or job share. ‘Find out how flexible working can work for you’.

 

Flexible Working Policy

We take pride in being a leader in flexibility and offer a wide array of flexible working options for different circumstances. How you work and the options available will depend on the role you're in, but we aim to offer the flexibility needed by everyone.

For many of our office-based roles, we work in hybrid ways, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. Dependent on your role, other flexible options may be available, such as part-time or compressed hours, complete home-working or job share. ‘Find out how flexible working can work for you’.

Returner opportunities

Returning to work after time away can be challenging. That’s why we offer Returner opportunities that are designed to assist people returning to work after a career break of 18 months or more and our roles are permanent from the day one. Whether you’ve been away from work due to parenthood, illness, or even travel, we’re looking forward to hearing from you as we continue to grow!

What can you expect?

Coming back into the world of work after a career break can be really daunting – and we therefore know how important flexibility is. We’re very aware that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, so will happily have the discussion about different working patterns with you.

These roles have been created with your career break in mind, making sure we are there to support you in your transition back to work. You will be brought in on a permanent contract and given meaningful work from day one. Plus, you’ll be paired with a buddy or mentor from your team to help guide you along the way. You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Returners Community and have the chance to create a personal development plan that works for you.

Who are we looking for?

While banking or professional services experience is desirable, especially for some roles, we care more about the transferable skills you can bring to our business.

Testimonials

I had a good network of colleagues already working for Lloyds Banking Group, who were all very passionate about their roles - so it felt the right choice for me and gave me the courage to apply for a Business Analyst role through the Returners. It was a seamless recruitment experience and I was offered a role in the work I wanted to do.

Olufunke Oladinni, Business Analyst


I love being a Project Manager, and I can’t recommend the Lloyds Banking Group Returners enough. It’ll springboard your career, giving you the best opportunity to relaunch yourself and maximise your full potential.

Justin Pierce, Project Manager



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