Description
JOB TITLE: Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
LOCATION(S): Leeds, Halifax or London
SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810 outside of London or £81,999- £91,110 in London
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above.
About the role
We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers: easy, modern and green for developers.
Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer with strong GCP or Azure experience, focused on compute infrastructure, CI/CD and Terraform. You’ll help build secure, scalable systems and drive automation across deployment and operations.
About you
You will work collaboratively with the Engineering and 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.
Key Responsibilities:
·Lead the design, implementation, and maintenance of GCP-based infrastructure.
·Support incidents through an out-of-hours rota.
·Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Harness and Jenkins.
·Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform.
·Implement security guidelines and access controls.
·Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure issues.
·Engage in Agile team ceremonies and continuous improvement efforts.
What you’ll need
·Extensive DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering experience.
·Strong CI/CD pipeline design and implementation skills.
·Experience with Windows & Linux VM base images.
·Proficiency in configuration management tools (e.g., Chef).
·Programming/scripting skills in Python, Go, Ruby, or Bash.
·Ownership of projects and successful delivery.
·Skilled in writing and managing IaC with Terraform.
·Experience in managing the full product lifecycle of compute services.
·Excellent communication skills.
·Adaptability in fast-paced environments.
In addition, any experience of these would be useful
·Hands-on experience with GCP and Microsoft Azure.
·Proficiency in writing modular and reusable IaC with Terraform.
·Knowledge of Cloud Security, KMS, PKI, and encryption.
·Deep understanding of Windows or Linux OS.
·Strong security mentality.
·Experience with monitoring tools and techniques
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
1. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
2. An annual performance-related bonus
3. Share schemes including free shares
4. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
5. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
6. 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.
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.