Description
AWS Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Location:Leeds, West YorkshireHours:Full time
Agile Working Options:Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices
Salary: £70,929 -£80,780
Working Pattern:Some out‑of‑hours work and participation in an on‑call rota may be required
About this opportunity
We’re modernising with cloud – building a platform that’s quick, secure and resilient for our customers, and easy, modern and sustainable for our developers.
Our core cloud focus spansMicrosoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, and increasinglyAWSfor targeted workloads.
As anInfrastructure Engineer, you’ll join our AWS team to design, secure and optimise enterprise cloud infrastructure. You’ll work across networking, automation, security and performance tuning for critical platforms that support millions of customers.
You'll help us on our journey to becoming the UK’s largest FinTech by shaping secure, scalable and innovative cloud solutions.
What you can expect to be doing
Within the Cloud Platform Engineering team, the role involves:
Build & operate AWS networking and compute
1. Configure and manage VPCs, EC2, Load Balancers, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink
2. Support hybrid networking and enterprise integration patterns
Automate and modernise our platform
3. Build automation with AWS CLI, Boto3, Terraform, CloudFormation
4. Deploy containerised workloads with Docker & Kubernetes
Strengthen cloud security
5. Implement IAM least‑privilege access
6. Use Security Hub, GuardDuty, Macie, WAF and Network Firewall
7. Lead encryption and secrets through KMS & Secrets Manager
Enable data movement & platform performance
8. Support secure transfers with AWS DataSync and AWS Transfer Family (SFTP)
9. Lead monitoring and observability with CloudWatch, Dynatrace and Splunk
10. Drive incident response, root‑cause analysis and service improvement
What we’re looking for
We’d love to hear from you if you have:
11. Hands‑on experience with AWS infrastructure, automation and observability tooling
12. Strong understanding of DNS, SSL/TLS, TCP/IP and core networking principles
13. Familiarity with cloud cost optimisation and multi‑cloud environments
14. Practical experience leading production-grade cloud workloads
Why join us?
You’ll work with modern AWS services, collaborate with dedicated engineering teams and help shape secure and scalable cloud solutions used across the Group. You’ll be part of a community driving innovation, learning and best‑practice engineering.
About working for us
We’re committed to building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want all our people to feel they belong, can be their authentic selves and reach their full potential.
We were among the first major UK employers to set gender‑balanced senior leadership goals, launch a menopause health package and introduce a dedicated Working With Cancer support programme. We’re also aDisability Confidentemployer.
If you’d like reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, just let us know.
Our benefits include
15. A generous pension contribution of up to15%
16. An annualperformance‑related bonus
17. Share schemes, including free share options
18. A benefits package you can tailor to your lifestyle (e.g., retail discounts, wellbeing support)
19. 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
20. A wide range of wellbeing initiatives andgenerous 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.