Public Cloud Assistant Infrastructure Engineer
Salary: £47,790 – £53,100
Locations: Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Halifax & Edinburgh
Hours: Full time
Agile Working Options: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're all driven by our purpose, to Help Britain Prosper. The choices we make, our success and our future really matter. We’re transforming our business to shape finance as a force for good.
Our team
Modernising using cloud builds 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.
Public Cloud Services Lab
The Public Cloud Services Lab delivers centrally managed, secure and scalable cloud services across Azure and GCP. We focus on engineering excellence, automation and AI‑driven efficiency to provide clear, ready‑to‑consume platforms that make it easy for teams to onboard and run critical workloads. Our priority is a great customer and developer experience—simple engagement, strong documentation, and reliable, well‑operated services.
Responsibilities
* Build and operate platform capabilities using Infrastructure‑as‑Code and modern CI/CD; partner with architecture and feature teams to evolve our cloud roadmap and platform products.
* Embed a secure‑by‑design approach and controls from design to runtime, safeguarding colleagues and customers.
* Define and operate against SLOs/SLIs; implement actionable observability, performance tuning and automation to reduce toil.
* Enable API‑first delivery with reusable patterns and golden paths for API producers/consumers; contribute to documentation and enablement.
* Contribute to communities of practice, upholding Platform Engineering standards expected at Grade D.
What you’ll need
Core skills (cloud‑agnostic)
* Track record delivering large‑scale systems with performance, availability and fault‑tolerance; experience setting SLOs/SLIs.
* Infrastructure‑as‑Code with Terraform (minimum) and one or more modern CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness).
* Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes).
* Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
Basic understanding in Azure
* ARM/Bicep/Template Spec
* AKS
* Application Gateway
* Azure Storage
Desirable
* API Management (policies/C# basics)
* Harness experience in CI/CD
* Dynatrace
* Docker/buildah/Podman
* Relevant Azure certifications
About working for 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.
Benefits
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes
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