Description
Public Cloud - Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Locations : Manchester, Leeds, Halifax, Edinburgh & Bristol
Salary: £70,929 - £78.810
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 Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you’ll help drive the evolution of the cloud foundations that enable everything from our digital channels to data platforms and the bank’s growing adoption of Generative AI. Great infrastructure engineering is central to how LBG runs securely, scales efficiently, and innovates responsibly — and your impact will be felt across the whole organisation.
You’ll work across a large‑scale, modern GCP environment, shaping infrastructure patterns, optimising services, strengthening automation, scaling IaC practices and building engineering capabilities that accelerate product teams across the bank. This is an opportunity to influence platform direction and engineering standards at scale.
What you’ll be doing
1. Engineering, configuring and optimising GCP infrastructure using a broad range of cloud services.
2. Designing and delivering Infrastructure‑as‑Code using Terraform, Terraform Cloud and modular IaC patterns.
3. Developing automation using Python, Bash or Groovy, and working with JSON/YAML formats.
4. Evolving our CI/CD ecosystem across Jenkins, Harness, GitHub and other technologies
5. Driving engineering quality through code reviews, design input, and lifecycle ownership.
6. Working with Kubernetes (GKE) and modern deployment patterns.
7. Collaborating with Infrastructure, Systems, Architecture and Software teams to deliver high‑quality, secure and automated cloud solutions.
8. Working within strong control, compliance and security frameworks.
9. Providing on call support coordinated with wider team
10. Helping guide the work of junior team members
About you
You’re a hands‑on engineer who loves solving complex problems, digging into systems, and building secure, automated and reliable cloud foundations. You thrive in collaborative environments, enjoy exploring new technologies (including how infrastructure enables GenAI), and you’re energised by working with others to co‑create innovative solutions.
You’re curious, proactive, resilient, and always looking for ways to improve how platforms are built, deployed, monitored and managed.
Essential skills & experience
11. Strong hands‑on experience with GCP services across a broad range.
12. Advanced experience with Terraform and IaC.
13. Proficiency in automation scripting (Python, Bash, Groovy).
14. Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Harness and GitHub.
15. Experience managing environments using GKE or similar Kubernetes deployments.
16. Ability to work across engineering domains with excellent communication and collaboration.
We’ll be excited if you have:
17. Google Cloud Professional certifications
18. Experience writing security guardrails (Sentinel or similar).
19. Experience with monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace or Cloud Monitoring.
20. Strong creativity, adaptability and a continuous‑learning mindset.
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
21. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
22. An annual performance-related bonus
23. Share schemes including free shares.
24. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
25. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
26. 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.