Public Cloud Software Engineer - GCP

Public Cloud Senior Software Engineer

Salary: £70,929.00 - £78,810

Location:

Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol

Hours:

Full-time Working Pattern:
Hybrid - spend at least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at the location above.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're all driven by our purpose, to Help Britain Prosper. It's why we exist - it's our reason to get out of bed in the morning. The choices we make, our success and our future really matter.

But the world is changing, fast. And we're changing too. It's never been a more exciting time to join us as we transform our business to shape finance as a force for good.

The Cloud Platform team is on the journey to create the next generation cloud platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for a Cloud Platform Dev Ops Engineer to join our Native Cloud team within the Cloud Platform.

This role provides an outstanding chance to be part of an ambitious team focused on driving technology modernisation. It supports Lloyds Banking Group's goal to become the biggest Fintech in the UK.

We're seeking an experienced, motivated and innovative hands‑on Cloud focussed Devops Engineer. The ideal candidate will have confirmed experience in a Dev Ops or Site Reliability Engineer role. You'll be a technical inspiring senior engineer and experienced at driving the delivery of new technical platforms.

• Expert Engineering experience building, configuring, and optimizing GCP based networking at enterprise scale. Specific networking knowledge (including Dedicated Interconnect, VPC network peering, Cloud Routers, Firewalls, Google DNS, Cloud NAT, IAM and VPC SC), basic knowledge of connected workloads (GKE, Compute Engine, Cloud SQL, Storage buckets, Google Data AI products, etc.) and corresponding ancillary function such as Identity.
• Hands on participation in projects heavily involving GCP networking including sustaining engineering, network deployment/implementation, network scaling, technology refresh and network optimization in both non-production and production environments.
• Significant experience of Dev Ops concepts and CI/CD pipelines using cloud native and third‑party tooling - Git, Terraform Cloud, Hashi Corp Vault, Harness, Jenkins
• Manage Incidents and Problems to resolve (and advance) enterprise networking connectivity issues to improve the stability of the platform.
• Review and feedback on code changes for your fellow team members.
• Develop, deploy and own the lifecycle of products and solutions developed within the team.
• Perform all engineering tasks in compliance with the Control and Security requirements

• Proficient, validated experience maintaining enterprise scale GCP cloud networking and cross cloud / on‑premises connectivity.
• Proven track record working closely with other Networks, Systems, and Software Engineering teams to ensure fast, smooth roll‑out of new designs and products, as well as assisting with deployment and maintenance of networking tools.
• Infrastructure development experience in Bash and/or Python.
• Proficient in Terraform
• Engineer the lifecycle of Google Cloud Platform networking products in Infrastructure as Code to enable new products and features
• Able to collaborate with other teams including architecture, business and other engineering teams to create solution and deliver product team artifacts and dependencies
• Continuous curiosity to learn and develop themselves with the latest industry methods and tooling.

• Bachelor's degree in computer programming / computer science / a related field or equivalent experience in cloud engineering / infrastructure engineering
• Certified Google Cloud Platform Professional Cloud Engineer (one of the Professional Cloud Dev Ops, Network or Security Engineer qualifications)
• Advanced Python development with experience of hosting APIs
• Experience of authoring guardrails / policy in Hashicorp Sentinel
• Awareness of Egress Proxies, IP Management, On premises networking, hardware firewall appliances, Infoblox, cloud proxy, Entra
• Experience with high‑traffic monitoring systems. Implementing logging telemetry with Dynatrace and Google Cloud Monitoring.
• Effective verbal, written, interpersonal communication.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, changing requirements and changing priorities.
• Creative mindset always coming up with ideas and solutions.

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.

If you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, please let us know.