Google Cloud Engineer (Public Cloud)

Lloyds; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Flexible working

Family leave

Flex cash

Health insurance

Discounts

Job summary

Lloyds is seeking a Cloud Engineer with strong GCP experience to build end-to-end infrastructure for engineering teams. You'll be shaping automated deployment patterns, securing workloads and enabling developer productivity across analytics, AI/ML and databases.

You'll collaborate with engineering leads and security partners, own features to delivery, and implement policy-as-code guardrails while advancing backstage templates and golden paths.

Qualifications

• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) at scale.
• Hands-on CI/CD design using GitHub Actions, Harness or equivalent.
• Proven Platform Engineering experience delivering on GCP.
• Proficiency in Python, Go or Bash.
• Understanding of IaC and policy as code.
• Experience lifecycle management of cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure GCP infrastructure foundations.
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or Harness.
• Create reusable Terraform modules and deployment patterns.
• Implement policy-as-code guardrails and security alignment.
• Collaborate with security, risk, architecture and delivery teams.
• Mentor engineers and participate in Agile ceremonies.

Skills

GCP expertise

CI/CD pipelines

Platform engineering

Python

Go

Bash

Policy-as-Code

Security awareness

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

GitHub Actions

Harness CI

Open Policy Agent

Backstage

Dynatrace

Job description

• Our Cloud Platform team is a well‑established engineering group at the heart of one of the UK’s biggest financial‑services transformations. We’re modernising the bank’s next‑generation cloud platform, partnering with business and product teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions for:
• Analytics
• GenAI / Machine Learning
• Databases
• Application workloads
• Our remit is broad: product curation, data‑warehousing capabilities, landing‑zone engineering, automation, and embedding AI into cloud workflows to improve developer experience, quality and efficiency
• We’re building a cloud platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers – and easy, modern and green for developers
• You’ll drive automation across deployments and operations, and take part in an out‑of‑hours support rota
• You’ll work side‑by‑side with Engineering Leads, Product Owners and partner teams to deliver our roadmap, shape priorities, embed traditional and GenAI tooling, and unblock delivery
• You’ll also contribute to technical communities and mentor early‑career engineers
• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable GCP infrastructure foundations, including IAM policy, key management, network patterns (PSC/PSA), and observability for services such as BigQuery, Composer, Vertex AI, AlloyDB, Spanner and Cloud Run
• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automated deployment patterns for analytics, AI/ML, database and serverless products
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using Harness CI and Python to automate delivery and reduce manual effort
• Translate threat‑model and policy requirements into policy‑as‑code guardrails (Wiz / Rego / Custom Org Policy / CEL)
• Create and evolve self‑service Golden Paths via Backstage templates, scaffolding, documentation and automation hooks
• Partner with security, risk, architecture and delivery teams to meet regulated‑industry standards while maintaining engineering pace
• Improve operational excellence across monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation and reliability, including participating in OOH support
• Prototype and productionise GenAI and agentic‑AI automation (e.g., AI‑assisted deployments, documentation generation, policy reasoning) using tools including Gemini on GCP and Copilot Studio
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support continuous improvement of workflows, tools and processes

Benefits

• A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
• A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
• Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
• Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
• Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
• Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
• Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
• Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
• Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our ‘Your Tomorrow’ scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.

Security tooling (Organisation Policy, Security Health Analytics, Wiz)

GCP Analytics, AI, Databases & Serverless products

Python

Terraform

Networking, security, IAM & platform engineering

Dynatrace

Backstage

Policy‑as‑Code (Open Policy Agent)

• This role focuses on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and we’re particularly interested in people with experience in:
• Git workflows
• CI/CD (Harness / GitHub Actions)

We’re looking for a Cloud Engineer with strong GCP experience, building end‑to‑end infrastructure solutions for engineering teams across the Group

You’re passionate about engineering excellence, automation and creating great developer experiences. You’re collaborative, curious and comfortable working across different domains in a fast‑moving platform organisation

Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic and evolving environment

Strong written and verbal communication, able to explain technical concepts clearly to varied audiences

Hands‑on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Harness or similar

Experience in Platform Engineering with a consistent record of delivering and operating solutions on GCP

Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go or Bash)

Ability to take ownership of features and products through to successful delivery

Understanding of configuration‑management tools for infrastructure automation and policy enforcement

Experience handling cloud‑service products through their lifecycle