End Date

Monday 28 April 2025

Salary Range

£81,999 - £91,110

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share
Summary

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JOB TITLE: Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

SALARY: £81,999- £91,110 in London, or £70,929 - £78,810 outside of London

LOCATION(S): London, Halifax, Leeds, Manchester or Edinburgh

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our locations noted above.

About this Opportunity:

We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

We are particularly interested in people with experience in one or more of the following: Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Terraform, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, Apigee, Azure API Management, Harness, Backstage, VMware Aria Suite, Kafka and modern middleware or integration products.

Your role as an Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for delivering, maintaining, and securing infrastructure resources that host colleague and customer facing services. This will be on our Public Cloud Infrastructure.

The Technologies may include compute, containers, data, operating systems, security and networking, predominately spanning virtual, and cloud computing such as IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS.

You will work collaboratively with the Engineering & Product Owner Leads, in building, and executing our road maps, whilst participating in the planning, and delivery of our goals, driving prioritisation, escalate impediments, acting on learnings and demonstrate successes. You will be encouraged to participate in technical communities both internally and externally to advance shared capabilities and to be a role model and mentor early career engineers to advance their technical skills.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need

Currently recruiting Infrastructure Engineers for our platform. We would expect as a minimum for you to have a good understanding of:

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• FinOps
• DevOps / Continuous Deployment CICD

Additionally, seeking individuals with expertise in one or more of these areas:

Compute

• Experience in designing, delivering and supporting Native IaaS, HPC PaaS, Migration Tooling and capabilities across Azure and Google Platform
• Driving implementation quality, participating in design decisions, automating repeatable tasks, and embedding telemetry to ensure observability and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity in maintaining tooling for continuous integration and CICD, IaaC, configuration management with Ansible, deployment automation with Harness, and infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
• Experience in OS scripting to automate operational tasks

Containers

• Experience in deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters using IaC
• Familiarity with deploying Kubernetes add-ons through IaC, such as service meshes, role-based access control (RBAC) managers, and certificate managers.
• Ability to deliver Kubernetes features like event-driven autoscaling and network overlays

Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Experience with configuring and deploying a broad range of storage, analytics and AI capabilities on either Google Platform or Azure.
• Understanding of data architecture including data ingestion, persistence, streaming and consumption patterns
• Exposure to Machine Learning, Data Science and AI use cases and tooling

Integration

• Experience in managing and curating cloud-native integration products such as API gateways (Apigee & APIM), Pub/Sub, and logic bus. This includes understanding integration standards, patterns, and cloud hosting
• Familiarity with deploying integration add-ons through IaC, including security policies, external and internal gateway management, and platform guardrails.
• Exposure to integration features like automated data reconciliation, event-driven processing, and scalable integration patterns.

Security & Networking

• Knowledge of Cloud network and perimeter security as well as familiarity with security frameworks and compliance standards
• Familiarity with Google Cloud networking, including Interconnect, DNS, VPN, routing, load balancing, and related technologies
• Familiarity with Azure networking, including Express-Route, virtual circuits, BGP, gateways, virtual networks, and VPNs

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

• Proficiency in automating cloud infrastructure and processes
• Experience with monitoring tools and techniques to ensure system reliability and performance

Curious to know more? Join us for an ask me anything session on Tuesday 22nd from 12:00 to 13:00. If you would like to be included in this call, please email Cloudbusinessmanagement @lloydsbanking.com

About working for us

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

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.