DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a DevOps Engineer in Manchester to enhance software delivery through automation and CI/CD pipelines. The ideal candidate has strong experience in DevOps principles and tools like Jenkins, Docker, and Kubernetes. You'll have the ability to influence modern engineering practices while working in a hybrid environment. Competitive salary and extensive benefits, including a pension contribution and 30 days of holiday, are offered.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual bonus award

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

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 deployment automation tools like Harness.

Responsibilities

• Champion DevOps principles and modern engineering practices across teams.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using various tools.
• Use Terraform for cloud infrastructure provisioning and management.
• Deploy and manage applications using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Implement monitoring solutions to ensure system health.
• Work with tools for automated deployments and advanced release strategies.

Skills

DevOps engineering

CI/CD pipeline design

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Splunk

Prometheus

Agile methodologies

Collaboration

Job description

**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…*** 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**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.