Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

We are seeking 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.

End Date
:
Sunday 04 January 2026

Salary Range
: £70,929 – £78,810

Location
:
Halifax or Leeds

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

• 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).

• Deep hands-on experience in Dev Ops 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.

Nice to have 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 cloud networking knowledge:
  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), Open Telemetry (distributed tracing).
• Familiarity with shared services such as CoreDNS, cert-manager, Dynatrace, Cloudability, Infoblox.
• Experience with Backstage Git Ops workflows and Anthos Config Management.

• A dynamic, inclusive environment that fosters equal opportunity and real career progression.
• Personal and professional development to make a meaningful impact.
• Broad remuneration package including:
  • A performance share bonus
  • A generous pension contribution
  • A flex cash pot to suit your lifestyle
  • Private health cover
  • 30 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Various share schemes including free shares

We are committed to equal opportunity and providing reasonable accommodation for applicants with disabilities during the application or interview process. Please contact us to request accommodation.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. We focus on shaping the financial services of the future, with opportunities to learn, grow and develop across the Group.

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