About this role
End Date
Monday 02 February 2026Salary Range
£70,929 - £106,394We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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Job Description
Public Cloud Senior Software Engineer
Salary: £70,929.00 - £78,810
Location: Manchester
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Hybrid – spend at least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at the location above.
About the Role
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll join a collaborative, agile, product‑focused engineering team working at the heart of our Cloud Platform. You’ll contribute to designing, building and improving our cloud security and network products, as well as supporting the day‑to‑day operation of existing services.
You will:
- Write and review secure Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC)
- Provide operational support for existing products, including incident management and customer requests
- Develop and test new product features
- Manage workload through Jira
- Automate processes and leverage AI to drive efficiency and cost‑effectiveness
- Identify opportunities for service and platform improvement
- Support roadmap planning and contribute to product direction
- Invest in your own development and continuous learning
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to an inclusive, learning‑oriented culture
- Step in for the Lead Engineer when required
What You’ll Need
As a Senior Software Engineer, you’ll bring:
- Deep expertise in at least one relevant product or technology area (e.g., Firewalls), and the ability to rapidly build capability in others
- Strong understanding of secure-by-design principles and alignment to industry best practice
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to listen, challenge and collaborate effectively
- The ability to work closely with product owners and teams to shape effective solutions
- Awareness of technical constraints, bottlenecks and environmental factors — with the drive to resolve them quickly
- Experience working within agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and tools such as Jira and Confluence
- Hands-on experience with DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and automation
- A passion for automating everything
- Curiosity about emerging technology and a desire to continuously improve solutions and team capability
Working with Us
We’re committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone can be their best. We proudly support diversity in all its forms and are a disability‑confident employer. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, we’re happy to support you.
Benefits
As part of Lloyds Banking Group, you’ll have access to a wide range of benefits, including:
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- Annual performance‑related bonus
- Share schemes, including options for free shares
- Flexible benefits tailored to your lifestyle
- 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- Wellbeing support and market‑leading 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.
Other facts
About Lloyds Banking Group
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.
The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.
What you'll do
- As a Senior Software Engineer, you will design, build, and improve cloud security and network products while providing operational support for existing services. You will also manage workloads through Jira and mentor junior engineers.
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