Job Description

End Date Wednesday 05 November 2025
Salary Range 70,929 - 78,810
Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share
Summary .

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
Salary: 70,929 - 78,810
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About us...
Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the
ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too...
About this opportunity
We're looking for a driven DevOps Engineer who can help us deliver exciting customer driven solutions. In our DevOps team, we lead the way in defining the best of new technology offerings, working closely with our Engineering Leads to collectively drive the tooling agenda whilst balancing the requirements of the UKs leading retail bank. The ultimate measure of success for us is leveraging these best of breed software and platform solutions so that we can continuously improve how we deliver market leading applications for our customers.
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.
The Senior DevOps Engineer will hold accountability for design, implementation, maintenance and support of DevOps pipelines, tooling/automation at a Feature/Lab team level. This will include recommending the right pipeline and tooling choices appropriate for their Feature/Lab accountabilities, in line with Group Strategy
What you'll do
Spread your time spread among short term support-related tasks, longer-term initiatives, problem-solving, optimising, forecasting, planning and personal development, as well as leading others.
Collaborate with Engineering teams across the Transport Platform, and the wider LBG, to develop effective solutions.
Take ownership of specific problems to deliver customer focused outcomes.
Contribute to DevOps strategy both within the Corporate Lab and Transport Platform.
Collaborate with DevOps Engineers from across Lloyds Banking Group to promote best practice amongst us all and contribute the central toolsets and practices.
Promote and advance the capabilities and awareness of DevOps across the Transport Platform.
What you'll need:
Knowledge of and some hands-on experience of the entire pipeline and supporting tooling, Git, Nexus, Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube, Ansible, and Terraform.
Good knowledge and experience of agile development practices, continuous integration and delivery for fast and secure route to live
Good understanding of Cloud (ideally Google Cloud), including implementation of Kubernetes, and Micro Service Architecture.
Good understanding of infrastructure as code practises, as well as secure by design priniciples
Hand on experience in shell scripting (Bash, PowerShell, etc)
Be able to communicate effectively and work together, building relationship with others across a variety of domains, fields and locations, but also be able to work autonomously and proactively.
Good skills on knowledge management, as well as mentoring and training others in various DevOps based skills
Passion for technology and its application to real-world problems, such as software automation and delivery.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
Knowledge of Harness (CI/CD Tool).
Experience in automation of testing tools, examples like OWASP ZAP, aXe, and Playwright.
Knowledge and experience in the development of ReactJS and/or .Net based applications
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.
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.
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!
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.

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