Description
Public Cloud - Assistant Infrastructure Engineer
Locations : Manchester, Leeds, Halifax, Edinburgh & Bristol
Salary: £47,790 - £53,100
Locations: Manchester, Bristol, Halifax, Leeds & Edinburgh
Hours: Full time
Agile Working Options: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices.
Working Pattern: Some out‑of‑hours work and participation in an on‑call support rota will be required.
About this opportunity
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're all driven by our purpose, to Help Britain Prosper. It's why we exist - it's our reason to get out of bed in the morning. The choices we make, our success and our future really matter.
But the world is changing, fast. And we're changing too. It's never been a more exciting time to join us as we transform our business to shape finance as a force for good.
Our team
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 looking for candidates who are interested working in our Google Lab. Our team are responsible for the banks Google Cloud Platform, which underpins the bank’s digital journeys, data capabilities and emerging Generative AI workloads. As an assistant Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll develop the skills to build and automate cloud services that help teams across LBG innovate safely and efficiently.
You’ll learn from experienced engineers, gain exposure to real production workloads, and develop strong cloud engineering foundations in a modern GCP environment. This is an outstanding opportunity to grow into a skilled cloud engineer able to support and deliver enterprise‑scale solutions.
What you’ll be doing
1. Supporting provisioning and configuration of GCP services
2. Writing Infrastructure‑as‑Code in Terraform and learning best‑practice IaC patterns.
3. Contributing to CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Terraform Cloud, Harness and GitHub.
4. Building automation to improve consistency, security and reduce manual effort.
5. Supporting incident response and learning good operational practices.
6. Participating in agile ceremonies and contributing to continuous improvement
7. Building foundational knowledge in observability, security and DevOps culture.
About you
You’re early in your cloud engineering journey but highly motivated to learn, grow and take ownership. You love understanding how systems fit together, enjoy solving problems and are excited about working with cutting‑edge cloud technology — including how infrastructure supports new AI capabilities.
You collaborate well, communicate clearly, and bring curiosity and energy to your team.
Essential skills & experience
8. 1–3 years’ experience in DevOps, SRE or cloud engineering.
9. Basic understanding of cloud concepts and core GCP services.
10. Foundational scripting in Python, Bash, Java or Go.
11. Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Harness or GitHub Actions.
12. Exposure to IaC tools, preferably Terraform.
13. Enthusiasm, initiative and a desire to grow technically.
Desirable skills
14. Awareness of Kubernetes/containerisation
15. Understanding of observability tooling (Prometheus, Dynatrace, etc.).
16. Awareness of agile ways of working.
About working with 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
17. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
18. An annual performance-related bonus
19. Share schemes including free shares.
20. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
21. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
22. 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.