Google Cloud Network DevOps Engineer

End Date

Tuesday 03 February 2026

£48,987 - £54,430

Hybrid Working, Job Share

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Google Cloud Network Dev Ops Engineer Salary: £48,987‑£54,430

Locations:
Manchester & Leeds

Hours:

Full time

Agile Working Options:
Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices.

Working Pattern:
Some out‑of‑hours work and participation in an on‑call support rota will be required.

We’re investing heavily in modernising our technology and building a cloud platform that is fast, secure, resilient and sustainable. As a Cloud Platform Dev Ops Engineer specialising in Google Cloud Platform networking
, you’ll play a pivotal role in developing, optimising and operating the networking foundations that underpin our transformation.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a forward‑thinking engineering team helping Lloyds Banking Group progress towards our ambition of becoming the UK’s largest Fin Tech. You’ll bring hands‑on expertise, influence technical direction and contribute to the delivery of modern cloud capabilities at scale.

We’re modernising with cloud – creating a platform that’s quick, secure and resilient for customers, and easy, modern and sustainable for developers. Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

We’re looking for an experienced, motivated and innovative Cloud‑focused Dev Ops Engineer to join our Google Cloud team. You’ll be an inspiring, hands‑on engineer with experience in Dev Ops or Site Reliability Engineering and a history of driving the delivery of technical platforms in enterprise environments.

• Engineering experience building, configuring and optimising GCP networking at enterprise scale.
• Strong knowledge of:
  Dedicated Interconnect, VPC Peering, Cloud Routers, Firewalls, Google DNS, Cloud NAT, IAM and VPC‑SC.
• Basic understanding of GCP connected workloads such as GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Storage and Google Data/AI products.
• Hands‑on project experience across network deployment, scaling, optimisation, sustaining engineering and technology refresh.
• Strong understanding of Dev Ops practices and CI/CD pipelines using Git, Terraform Cloud, Hashi Corp Vault, Harness and Jenkins.
• Ability to handle incidents and problems, advancing solutions to improve reliability.
• Experience reviewing and providing feedback on peer code changes.
• Proven ability to develop, deploy and own end‑to‑end product lifecycle within an engineering team.
• Commitment to delivering engineering outcomes in line with Group Controls and Security requirements.

• Proficient in maintaining enterprise‑scale GCP networking and cross‑cloud/on‑prem connectivity.
• Able to work closely with Networks, Systems and Software Engineering teams to ensure smooth and fast delivery of new designs and capabilities.
• Experience with Bash and/or Python for infrastructure development.
• Strong Terraform proficiency.
• Able to engineer GCP networking products using Infrastructure as Code to enable new features.
• Comfortable collaborating with architecture, business and engineering teams.
• Naturally curious, proactive and motivated to continuously develop with modern tooling and methods.

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent relevant experience.
• Google Cloud Professional certification (Dev Ops, Network or Security).
• Intermediate Python development skills and experience hosting APIs.
• Experience writing guardrails in Hashi Corp Sentinel.
• Familiarity with Egress proxies, IP management, on‑prem networking, hardware firewalls, Infoblox, cloud proxy and Entra .
• Experience with high‑traffic monitoring systems such as Dynatrace and Google Cloud Monitoring.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

We truly value the contribution of our engineering community. As part of the Group, you’ll benefit from:

• A competitive salary aligned to our Grade E pay structure
• Performance‑related bonus
• Up to 15% employer pension contribution
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