Senior DevOps Engineer
End Date
Sunday 05 July 2026Salary Range
£72,702 - £80,780We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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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
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
- 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 benefits
- 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?
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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