DevOps Engineer

We're the team that looks after the customer data for the whole of Lloyds Banking Group. Our mission is to make this data available for the right purpose with the appropriate confidentiality and always ensuring a phenomenal engineering experience based on performance, resilience, and integrity.

We're looking for an outstanding collaborator that can drive strategy and key initiatives forward, while being an advocate for excellence, culture, and sustainability. You're comfortable in a software engineering role, blending both solid experience and technical expertise.

What you'll be doing:

• Design, build and maintain scalable, resilient engineering solutions supporting Customer Data Services.

• Build, migrate and manage CI/CD pipelines using Harness, driving automation, speed and reliability across delivery.

• Deploy and operate containerised applications using Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.

• Configure and support Java runtimes, including Open Liberty.

• Improve platform reliability through operational support and SRE practices.

• Build and optimise cloud-native services across OCP and GCP platforms.

• Collaborate with engineering, architecture and product teams to influence strategy and promote modern engineering standards.

• Hands on Software Engineering background with 8-12 years' experience in building large scale applications, using a fairly broad set of tools, techniques, and platforms.

• Experience deploying solutions using containerisation technologies, in particular Docker, Kubernetes and Helm.

• Passionate about continuous integration, continuous delivery, and automation (Nexus, Git, Jenkins, shell scripting, etc.)

• Experience working with cloud technologies such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS or Azure

• Comfortable configuring Java Application Servers such as Open Liberty

• Some experience in operational support, ideally following SRE principles

Nice to have:

• Experience in Service Mesh (Istio)

• Hands-on with Harness CI/CD for automated build and deployment pipelines.

• Have an awareness of security considerations and security tools used to integrate with the build pipeline covering OWASP top 10

• An understanding of network protocols & security

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.

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 performance-related bonus

• 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

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.