Cloud Engineer

Lloyds Bank plc; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Cloud Engineer to enhance their International Payments Platform. This role will involve leading technical solutions and collaborating with product and engineering teams to ensure high-quality software development. Your expertise in cloud technologies and DevOps practices will be crucial as you establish cloud patterns, build shared hosting services, and implement automation strategies. Join a forward-thinking company committed to diversity and inclusion, and help shape the future of finance while developing your career in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous pension

Bonuses

Share schemes

Flexible benefits

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Qualifications

• Proficient in designing and managing cloud deployments.
• Strong background in DevOps and Cloud Engineering.

Responsibilities

• Establish cloud patterns and principles with feature teams.
• Build and support shared hosting services like Kubernetes.
• Implement best practices in DevOps tools and cloud resources.

Skills

Cloud Engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub

Cloud Networking

Observability

API Management

Tools

Kubernetes

Jenkins

GitHub

Harness

Job description

Time left to apply: End Date: June 5, 2025 (26 days left to apply)

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Edinburgh office.

About this opportunity…

Exciting opportunity for a Cloud Engineer to join the Payments Services Platform in our International & CHAPS Lab, providing payment options for all of our customers. Specifically, to support our new industry-leading International Payments Platform (IPP). Our strategic roadmap includes a Payments Industry product called Global Payments Plus (GPP).

As the Cloud Engineer, you'll lead, direct, and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You’ll work collaboratively to create, build, support, and improve our software, working closely with product and engineering teams. You'll be a key contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in line with our engineering transformation strategy.

About us…

We’re evolving, investing in our people, data, and technology to meet the needs of our 26 million customers. Join us on our journey to grow with purpose.

What you’ll do…

1. Establish cloud patterns and principles in line with the Group’s methodologies, working with feature teams.
2. Focus on cloud elements of solutions, ensuring smooth deployment and continuous improvement of processes.
3. Build and support shared hosting services like Kubernetes, Ingress/Egress, Networking, Certificates, and data resources.
4. Implement best practices in DevOps tools and cloud resources such as Jenkins, Kubernetes, Harness, and maintain our hosting platform.
5. Create and improve deployment routes to production with automation strategies like blue/green and canary deployments.
6. Configure and enhance observability controls.
7. Prove scalability, resilience, and security of systems.

What you’ll need…

• Broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence.
• Ability to independently design, implement, manage, and optimize cloud deployments, proficient in orchestration tools like Jenkins, GitHub, Harness.
• Background in DevOps, Cloud, or Software engineering with solid understanding of Cloud delivery.
• Strong Cloud Engineering and DevOps experience, preferably with GCP.
• Experience with cloud-native solutions and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Observability, SRE, DevSecOps, FinOps.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, connectivity patterns, and key data tools like Kafka, BigTable, DataProc, BigQuery.

It would be great if you also had…

• Knowledge of network protocols & security.
• Experience with Contract Testing, API management tools like APIgee, Kafka, and Microservices architecture.

About working for us…

We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and creating a workplace where everyone belongs. We offer benefits like a generous pension, bonuses, share schemes, flexible benefits, holidays, wellbeing initiatives, and parental leave.

If you're excited to join our team, we’d love to hear from you!

At Lloyds Banking Group, our purpose is to help Britain prosper. We aim to make a difference for our customers, businesses, and communities. Join us to shape the future of finance and develop your career.

We prioritize data safety, confidentiality, and an inclusive culture where all colleagues can thrive.

Application deadlines: End Date: May 15, 2025 (5 days left), End Date: May 12, 2025 (2 days left)

About Us

With 320 years of history, we embrace change and are shaping the future of finance. Join us to do your best work, learn, and grow with us.

For flexible working options, search using keywords like job sharing or variable hours.