Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £70,929–£78,810

Location: Halifax or Leeds

Workstyle: Hybrid (at least two days a week/on average 40% on site)

Build the bank of the future with us

Why join Lloyds Banking Group?

You’ll be part of a high‑impact engineering community, shaping platforms used by millions and working in modern, agile teams that value craft, automation and security by design. You’ll have scope to innovate, grow and see your work make a real difference for customers and colleagues.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re modernising with public cloud—creating platforms that are quick, secure and resilient for customers, and easy, modern and green for developers. Our core focus is Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and we’re redefining our technology, culture and approach to become a truly engineering‑led organisation.

We’re looking for a Senior Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to help deliver one of our flagship platforms on GCP and Azure—enabling the next generation of services across the Group.

What you’ll do

• Design, build and run highly resilient, scalable Kubernetes environments in public cloud.
• Engineer multi‑tenant clusters for strong isolation, resource efficiency and operational scale.
• Automate delivery end‑to‑end with robust CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Harness), enabling seamless testing and deployments.
• Implement policy‑as‑code security (e.g. OPA Gatekeeper, fine‑grained RBAC) and implement least‑privilege across environments.
• Diagnose and resolve system‑level performance, scalability and automation issues to keep infrastructure healthy.
• Contribute to a 24x7 on‑call rotation (with sensible guardrails and support).

What you’ll bring

• Deep hands‑on experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering, ideally spanning consumer and SaaS landscapes.
• Consistent record delivering production‑grade Kubernetes (k8s) clusters and services.
• Strong CI/CD design and implementation skills.
• Proficiency in Python, Go and Bash for automation and tooling.
• Ownership mindset—able to lead initiatives to successful delivery.
• Solid Infrastructure as Code experience, especially Terraform.
• Experience running the full product lifecycle of cloud‑native core services.

It’s great (but not essential) if you also have

• Hands‑on with GCP/Azure infrastructure and services.
• Terraform expertise with modular, reusable patterns.
• Service mesh exposure (e.g. Istio, Anthos)—mTLS, sidecar injection, ingress/egress gateways, telemetry.
• Strong grounding in cloud networking: Hybrid Connectivity, VPN, NAT, IPAM, DNS, routing.
• Cloud security depth: KMS, PKI, encryption, least privilege, plus tools like Aqua Security.
• Linux internals, networking and performance tuning.
• Observability at scale: Prometheus, Dynatrace (logging/metrics) and OpenTelemetry (distributed tracing).
• Familiarity with shared services such as CoreDNS, cert‑manager, Dynatrace, Cloudability, Infoblox.
• Experience with Backstage GitOps workflows and Anthos Config Management.

What We Offer:

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and supportive environment that fosters equal opportunity and real career progression. We are committed to your personal and professional development, empowering you to make a meaningful impact throughout your career with us. Together we make it possible.

We'll also give you a broad remuneration package which includes:

• A performance share bonus
• A generous pension contribution
• A flex cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle
• Private health cover
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Various share schemes including free shares

If you're eager to take on a challenging engineering role in a dynamic environment where quality is paramount, and want to grow within a collaborative and motivated team, we’d love to hear from you!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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.