Public Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Engineer
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End Date: Monday 28 April 2025
Salary Range: £47,790 - £53,100
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Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Engineer
SALARY: £55,755 - £61,695 in London, or £47,790 - £53,100 outside of London
LOCATION(S): London, Halifax, Leeds, Manchester, or Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid work style, involving at least two days per week at our locations listed above.
About this Opportunity:
We are modernising with cloud to provide a quick, secure, resilient platform for customers and an easy, modern, green environment for developers. Our focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
We are interested in candidates with experience in areas such as Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Windows Server, RHEL, Terraform, Azure Arc, Azure Policy, Apigee, Azure API Management, Harness, Backstage, VMware Aria Suite, Kafka, and other modern middleware or integration products.
Your role as an Infrastructure Assistant Engineer involves delivering, maintaining, and securing infrastructure resources hosting colleague and customer-facing services on our Public Cloud Infrastructure. Technologies include compute, containers, data, OS, security, and networking, spanning virtual, IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS environments.
You will collaborate with engineers in building and executing roadmaps, participating in planning, prioritising, escalating impediments, acting on learnings, and demonstrating successes.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We aim to transform our Group and shape finance for good, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to create an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.
What You’ll Need
We are recruiting Infrastructure Engineers with a minimum understanding of:
* Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
* FinOps
* DevOps / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
And expertise in one or more of the following areas:
Compute
* Designing, delivering, and supporting native IaaS, HPC PaaS, migration tooling across Azure and Google Cloud
* Implementing quality, automating tasks, embedding telemetry for observability
* Maintaining CI/CD tooling, IaC, configuration management with Ansible, deployment automation with Harness, infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
* OS scripting for operational automation
Containers
* Deploying and maintaining Kubernetes clusters via IaC
* Deploying Kubernetes add-ons like service meshes, RBAC, certificate managers
* Implementing features like autoscaling and network overlays
Data & AI
* Configuring storage, analytics, AI capabilities on Google or Azure
* Understanding data architecture, ingestion, persistence, streaming, consumption
* Exposure to Machine Learning, Data Science, AI tooling
Integration
* Managing cloud-native integration products like API gateways (Apigee, APIM), Pub/Sub, logic bus
* Deploying integration add-ons via IaC, including security policies and platform guardrails
* Features like automated reconciliation, event-driven processing, scalable patterns
Security & Networking
* Knowledge of cloud network security, compliance standards
* Familiarity with Google Cloud networking (Interconnect, DNS, VPN, load balancing)
* Familiarity with Azure networking (Express-Route, virtual networks, gateways, VPNs)
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
* Automating cloud infrastructure and processes
* Monitoring tools and techniques for system reliability
Curious to know more?
Join us for an ask-me-anything session on Tuesday 22nd from 12:00 to 13:00. Email Cloudbusinessmanagement@lloydsbanking.com to be included.
About Working For Us
We promote inclusivity, diversity, and belonging, with initiatives supporting under-represented groups, disability confidence, and flexible adjustments during recruitment.
Benefits
* Up to 15% pension contribution
* Annual bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Flexible benefits like shopping discounts
* 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
* Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies
Join us to do impactful work that makes a difference for millions.
Our purpose is to help Britain prosper, with opportunities to learn, grow, and shape the future of financial services.
We prioritize data safety and a values-led, inclusive culture.
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