Description
Job Title: Senior Google Cloud Platform Engineer (GCP)
Salary: £92,701 - 109,060
Location(s): Bristol / Leeds / Manchester / Halifax
Hours: Full‑time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
We’re modernising our technology platforms using public cloud that is secure, resilient, scalable and developer‑friendly. This enables our engineering teams across the bank to deliver better outcomes for customers and supports the growth of our digital channels, data platforms and emerging AI capabilities.
Our core public cloud platform is Google Cloud Platform (GCP), already live and supporting business‑critical workloads, with continued expansion planned.
As part of a product‑aligned, agile engineering team, you’ll help build, evolve and operate the foundational cloud platform services that underpin our technology landscape. You’ll collaborate closely with software engineers, architects and security teams to ensure the platform is reliable, compliant and easy to use.
What you’ll be doing
1. Designing, engineering and optimising enterprise‑scale GCP infrastructure and networking
2. Developing and reviewing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform / Terraform Cloud
3. Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Jenkins and Harness
4. Developing automation using Python, Bash and/or Groovy
5. Owning cloud services through their full lifecycle (design, build, run, improve)
6. Performing code reviews and helping drive engineering quality and consistency
7. Working collaboratively with architecture, security and software engineering teams
8. Providing BAU operational support, including incident and problem management
9. Mentoring other engineers and supporting planning and technical decision‑making
Why join us?
Join us and give us your best and we’ll give you ours. Here, you’ll make a difference to customers, enjoy a fulfilling career where you’re free to be yourself, and work with great colleagues in modern workspaces — with hybrid working and long‑term career opportunities.
What we’re looking for
Essential skills & experience
10. 5+ years’ experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments
11. 5+ years’ experience designing and supporting cloud networking, including: VPC, Interconnect, Firewalls, DNS, NAT, IAM and VPC‑SC
12. 3+ years’ experience using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
13. 3+ years’ experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
14. Experience working with Kubernetes / GKE
15. Experience working in agile delivery environments (Scrum / Kanban, Jira, Confluence)
16. Strong understanding of platform reliability, security and automation
And any of these would be great
17. Experience working with large‑scale or hybrid GCP environments
18. Experience with policy as code
19. Experience using monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring
20. Google Cloud Professional certifications
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.
This is a place for you
We want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the assessment process works for you.
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. 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
25. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
26. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to do the best work of your career? Apply today.
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.