Description
Cloud Engineer – Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Location:Manchester
Salary: £70,929 - £78.810
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by our purpose –Helping Britain Prosper. It’s why we exist and how we make decisions. As the world changes around us, we’re transforming our business and investing in modern, sustainable technology to shape finance as a force for good.
About the Team
Our Cloud Platform team is a well‑established engineering group at the heart of one of the UK’s biggest financial‑services transformations. We’re modernising the bank’s next‑generation cloud platform, partnering with business and product teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions for:
1. Analytics
2. GenAI / Machine Learning
3. Databases
4. Application workloads
Our remit is broad: product curation, data‑warehousing capabilities, landing‑zone engineering, automation, and embedding AI into cloud workflows to improve developer experience, quality and efficiency.
About the Role
We're building a cloud platform that isquick, secure and resilient for customers – and easy, modern and green for developers.
This role focuses onGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP), and we’re particularly interested in people with experience in:
5. GCP Analytics, AI, Databases & Serverless products
6. Networking, security, IAM & platform engineering
7. Terraform
8. CI/CD (Harness / GitHub Actions)
9. Python
10. Git workflows
11. Backstage
12. Policy‑as‑Code (Open Policy Agent)
13. Security tooling (Organisation Policy, Security Health Analytics, Wiz)
14. Dynatrace
Knowledge ofmulti‑agent AI systemsis also desirable.
We're looking for aCloud Engineer with strong GCP experience, building end‑to‑end infrastructure solutions for engineering teams across the Group. You’ll drive automation across deployments and operations, and take part in an out‑of‑hours support rota.
About You
You’re passionate about engineering excellence, automation and creating great developer experiences. You’re collaborative, curious and comfortable working across different domains in a fast‑moving platform organisation.
You’ll work side‑by‑side with Engineering Leads, Product Owners and partner teams to deliver our roadmap, shape priorities, embed traditional and GenAI tooling, and unblock delivery. You’ll also contribute to technical communities and mentor early‑career engineers.
Key Responsibilities
15. Design, build and maintain secure, scalable GCP infrastructure foundations, including IAM policy, key management, network patterns (PSC/PSA), and observability for services such as BigQuery, Composer, Vertex AI, AlloyDB, Spanner and Cloud Run
16. Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automated deployment patterns for analytics, AI/ML, database and serverless products
17. Develop CI/CD pipelines using Harness CI and Python to automate delivery and reduce manual effort
18. Translate threat‑model and policy requirements into policy‑as‑code guardrails (Wiz / Rego / Custom Org Policy / CEL)
19. Create and evolve self‑serviceGolden Pathsvia Backstage templates, scaffolding, documentation and automation hooks
20. Partner with security, risk, architecture and delivery teams to meet regulated‑industry standards while maintaining engineering pace
21. Improve operational excellence across monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation and reliability, including participating in OOH support
22. Prototype and productionise GenAI and agentic‑AI automation (e.g., AI‑assisted deployments, documentation generation, policy reasoning) using tools including Gemini on GCP and Copilot Studio
23. Participate in Agile ceremonies and support continuous improvement of workflows, tools and processes
Essential Skills & Experience
24. Experience in Platform Engineering with a consistent record of delivering and operating solutions on GCP
25. Hands‑on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Harness or similar
26. Understanding of configuration‑management tools for infrastructure automation and policy enforcement
27. Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
28. Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go or Bash)
29. Ability to take ownership of features and products through to successful delivery
30. Experience handling cloud‑service products through their lifecycle
31. Strong written and verbal communication, able to explain technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
32. Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic and evolving environment
What You’ll Get in Return
We’re committed to equal opportunity and building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Your wellbeing, growth and development matter to us.
You’ll receive:
33. A performance‑based share bonus
34. A flexible benefits pot
35. A generous pension contribution
36. Private health cover
37. Up to 30 days annual leave (with the option to purchase more)
38. Access to colleague share schemes
If this role sounds like a great match for your skills, we’d love to hear from you.
Working With Us
We’re committed to creating an inclusive organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
We want all colleagues to feel they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
If you’d like reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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.