Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud)

lloyds banking group; Bristol; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in Bristol is looking for a Cloud Engineer to enhance their cloud infrastructure. The role involves developing solutions on cloud platforms and ensuring system reliability while championing best practices in security. Candidates should have strong problem-solving abilities and experience in cloud technologies, making this an exciting opportunity in a dynamic environment.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experienced platform, data, and/or infrastructure engineer with a focus on cloud solutions.
• Strong communication skills for teamwork on complex challenges.
• Practical experience with automated CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Build and deliver infrastructure that powers platforms.
• Maintain existing cloud systems and improve their reliability.
• Implement infrastructure updates following best practices.

Skills

Cloud platform/infrastructure engineering

Independent reasoning and problem-solving

Cloud infrastructure expertise

Familiarity with PaaS and serverless solutions

Understanding of cloud security models

Infrastructure-as-code practices

Monitoring and alerting tools

CI/CD pipeline experience

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Job description

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What You'll Be Doing

• You’ll use your knowledge of cloud platform/infrastructure engineering to build and deliver new infrastructure that powers our platforms.
• Keep our existing cloud systems running smoothly, evolving with our needs and improving the reliability of our solutions.
• Make sure our platforms scale effectively with the right capacity and triggers.
• Champion best practices in infrastructure security, resilience, and reliability.
• You’ll use knowledge and experience of Cloud technologies to help shape our strategy.
• Work with your team to deliver functional and non‑functional requirements ensuring these are being met during design, software development and testing.
• Be solving technical problems at pace, identifying and implementing infrastructure updates following engineering best practices.

Get the opportunity to work with modern tech, data stacks, and cloud‑based architectures, managing both the foundational data solutions alongside the adoption of advanced AI and ML capabilities.

Qualifications & Skills

• Experienced platform, data, and/or infrastructure engineer with a recent focus on developing solutions on cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).
• Strong independent reasoning and problem‑solving abilities. Excellent spoken and written communication to allow for effective teamwork on complex challenges and solutions.
• Strong experience across cloud infrastructure – compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Familiarity with PaaS services, serverless solutions (e.g., GCP Cloud Run), hands‑on experience with Kubernetes and container technologies.
• A solid understanding of cloud security models (IAM, Service Principals, VPCs).
• Practical experience with infrastructure‑as‑code practices and tooling (e.g., Terraform).
• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.
• CI/CD: Detailed understanding of working automated CI/CD pipelines and experience working with tools such as Jenkins, Harness, etc.
• It’s okay if one or two of these are things you’re not used to. We want people who are eager to learn, grow, and teach us something in the process.

Bonus Points for Experience With

• Industry Standard: GCP Cloud Architect/Engineer certifications or equivalent.
• Experience with Internal Developer Platform paradigm and tooling (e.g., Backstage).
• Appreciation of data security and privacy, and architectural implications for infrastructure and application.
• Practical experience of current technology domains and architectures – e.g., unified batch/streaming pipelines, data lake, AI/ML etc.
• High‑level knowledge of QA, data quality, and software quality tools such as SonarQube, etc.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you’ll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us, which is when we run our background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We’re focused on creating a values‑led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you. 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. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under‑represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.