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Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Full Time

Job Description

End Date

Wednesday 01 July 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £80,780

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

Senior Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Salary: £72,702–£80,780

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

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re building secure, resilient and scalable cloud platforms that power critical services for millions of customers.

We’re modernising at pace—creating engineering-led platforms that are easy to consume, secure by design, and operate at enterprise scale.

We’re hiring two Senior Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineers to join our Google Cloud / GKE Platform team. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in a regulated environment.

You’ll work on a multi-tenant Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) platform, solving complex platform challenges across automation, security, observability and reliability.

Key responsibilities

Platform Engineering (GKE)

  • Design, build and operate scalable, resilient GKE environments
  • Engineer multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with strong workload isolation and platform guardrails
  • Support shared and dedicated cluster patterns, including tenant onboarding
  • Improve platform performance under production conditions (e.g. scaling, storage, node pressure)

Automation & DevOps

  • Build automation-first infrastructure using Terraform, CI/CD and GitOps
  • Simplify cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, add-ons)
  • Develop self-service platform capabilities to improve developer experience

Reliability & SRE

  • Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to platform operations
  • Support incident response, monitoring, observability and continuous improvement
  • Diagnose issues across performance, scaling, storage and automation
  • Contribute to a 24x7 on-call rotation

Security & Compliance

  • Implement policy-as-code controls (e.g. OPA Gatekeeper, RBAC, workload identity)
  • Support audit, compliance and risk mitigation activities
  • Ensure platforms are secure, supportable and aligned to control frameworks

Networking & Platform Services

  • Work with service mesh and ingress/egress patterns (e.g. Istio, Anthos, Cloud Service Mesh)
  • Support cloud networking (VPCs, DNS, NAT, VPN, routing, connectivity)
  • Integrate shared platform services (cert-manager, observability, cost tooling)

Essential skills & experience

  • Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE
  • Proven delivery of production Kubernetes platforms, ideally GKE
  • Experience with multi-tenant platform environments (shared clusters, isolation, scaling)
  • Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (scheduling, storage, node lifecycle, upgrades)
  • Strong knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including:
    • GKE
    • IAM / Workload Identity
    • Networking (VPC, DNS, NAT, ingress/egress)
    • Storage patterns
  • Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) using modular design
  • Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
  • Coding/scripting (Python, Go or Bash)
  • Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to own and deliver complex engineering outcomes

Desirable experience

  • Advanced GKE operational expertise (node pools, upgrades, scaling, security boundaries)
  • Experience operating platforms at scale (multi-cluster, multi-tenant)
  • Service mesh experience (e.g. Istio, mTLS, traffic management)
  • Experience with policy-as-code (OPA Gatekeeper, Config Sync)
  • Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments
  • Strong focus on SRE and platform reliability improvements

Nice to have

  • Experience with Backstage or self-service platform tooling
  • Familiarity with Anthos Config Management / Config Sync
  • Exposure to tools such as CoreDNS, cert-manager, Dynatrace, Cloudability, Infoblox
  • Understanding of platform scaling challenges (ephemeral storage, workload density, resilience)
  • Experience working with cloud providers on platform architecture

Why join us

  • Work on enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms used by millions
  • Influence cloud platform strategy across the Group
  • Solve real-world challenges in scale, reliability and security
  • Build automation that improves developer experience and reduces toil
  • Join a team that values engineering excellence, ownership and innovation

What we offer

  • Performance bonus
  • Generous pension
  • Flexible benefits package
  • Private healthcare
  • 30 days holiday + bank holidays
  • Share schemes

Working at Lloyds Banking Group

We’re driven by a clear purpose: Helping Britain Prosper.

We’re committed to building an inclusive environment where colleagues can grow, contribute and succeed.

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.

Lloyds Banking Group
About Lloyds Banking Group

 

We're changing financial services, and we want you to join us.

We're the UK's largest financial services group, with our 25 million customers and a history stretching back more than 300 years.

We pride ourselves on creating a great environment for colleagues to work in, one which is inclusive and driven by our values. This is critical to our business success as we know that colleagues who can show up to work as themselves are those that bring their best.

We're an inclusive and open organisation with a scale that creates a vast range of roles and opportunities. We offer a plenty of options for continual personal growth and you'll be part of a culture which embraces diversity of talent, creativity, skills and thinking among our teams.

 

 

Workplace Initiatives

Opportunities for people returning from a career break

Yes our Returner opportunities offer a career path to candidates with a 18 month year break in their career’ with ‘Yes, our Returner opportunities are aimed at candidates who have had a 18 month or more career break

Leadership development programmes?

Yes

Mentoring programmes?

Yes

Coaching programmes?

Yes

Employee-led diversity networks?

Yes

Internal women’s networking groups?

Yes

Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage?

Yes

No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary:

 20 weeks based on full pay + 19 weeks at the current statutory maternity pay rate

Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave:

No qualifying service period

No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary:

6 weeks

Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave:

No qualifying service period

Gender pay gap reporting information (insert year) (UK): 2022

Average pay gap:

 30.5%

Median pay gap:

33.6%

Average bonus gap:

 62.5%

Median bonus gap:

69.5%

Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter?

Yes

Targets to raise the number of women in leadership?

Yes

Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership?

Yes

Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index?

Yes

Flexible Working Policy

We take pride in being a leader in flexibility and offer a wide array of flexible working options for different circumstances. How you work and the options available will depend on the role you're in, but we aim to offer the flexibility needed by everyone.

For many of our office-based roles, we work in hybrid ways, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. Dependent on your role, other flexible options may be available, such as part-time or compressed hours, complete home-working or job share. ‘Find out how flexible working can work for you’.

 

Flexible Working Policy

We take pride in being a leader in flexibility and offer a wide array of flexible working options for different circumstances. How you work and the options available will depend on the role you're in, but we aim to offer the flexibility needed by everyone.

For many of our office-based roles, we work in hybrid ways, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. Dependent on your role, other flexible options may be available, such as part-time or compressed hours, complete home-working or job share. ‘Find out how flexible working can work for you’.

Returner opportunities

Returning to work after time away can be challenging. That’s why we offer Returner opportunities that are designed to assist people returning to work after a career break of 18 months or more and our roles are permanent from the day one. Whether you’ve been away from work due to parenthood, illness, or even travel, we’re looking forward to hearing from you as we continue to grow!

What can you expect?

Coming back into the world of work after a career break can be really daunting – and we therefore know how important flexibility is. We’re very aware that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, so will happily have the discussion about different working patterns with you.

These roles have been created with your career break in mind, making sure we are there to support you in your transition back to work. You will be brought in on a permanent contract and given meaningful work from day one. Plus, you’ll be paired with a buddy or mentor from your team to help guide you along the way. You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Returners Community and have the chance to create a personal development plan that works for you.

Who are we looking for?

While banking or professional services experience is desirable, especially for some roles, we care more about the transferable skills you can bring to our business.

Testimonials

I had a good network of colleagues already working for Lloyds Banking Group, who were all very passionate about their roles - so it felt the right choice for me and gave me the courage to apply for a Business Analyst role through the Returners. It was a seamless recruitment experience and I was offered a role in the work I wanted to do.

Olufunke Oladinni, Business Analyst


I love being a Project Manager, and I can’t recommend the Lloyds Banking Group Returners enough. It’ll springboard your career, giving you the best opportunity to relaunch yourself and maximise your full potential.

Justin Pierce, Project Manager



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