Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK bank in Bristol seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer to oversee cloud platform strategy and lead a team. This full-time position offers a salary between £90,440 and £106,400, with a hybrid working model. Ideal candidates will have experience in Google Cloud Platform and strong engineering leadership skills. Join us in transforming finance for good and making a significant impact in the financial services sector.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Range of wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experienced engineering lead focused on developing solutions on Google Cloud Platform.
• Strong experience across cloud infrastructure components.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and container technologies.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for cloud platform/infrastructure strategy to support new solutions.
• Lead, mentor, and coach a team of engineers for robust cloud platform delivery.
• Develop and implement IT Security policies and best practices.

Skills

Cloud technologies

Engineering leadership

Infrastructure security

Kubernetes

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD

Tools

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Dynatrace

Job description

End Date: Wednesday 10 December 2025

Salary Range: £90,440 - £106,400

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

The Lead Infra Engineer will lead a team of Infra engineers within a Lab or Platform managing one or more technical products. Accountable for the associated Infrastructure strategy, security strategy and technical product roadmaps across the Lab/Platform. Includes measuring and reporting effectiveness of automation and orchestration to senior stakeholders.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud)

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400

LOCATION(S): Bristol

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office.

About this opportunity

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!

As the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial bank we realise that our data is a significant business differentiator and plays a pivotal role in achieving our sustainable growth ambitions.

This role is in Transaction Classification Services lab, where we’re on a mission to provide a world‑class transaction data enrichment capability to power commercialisation. We're delivering one of the UK's richest transaction datasets, revolutionising financial insights and market intelligence for LBG and our customers. It's a critical role to us, as you'll drive the evolution of data analytics solutions and AI capabilities, by developing and delivering solutions that are aligned with our group technical strategy and help achieve our lab’s goals and priorities.

What you’ll do

• You’ll be responsible for all aspects of cloud platform/ infrastructure strategy to support new solutions and features, including design, delivery and management.

• Lead, mentor and coach a talented group of engineers, guiding them through infrastructure deployment and configuration, to deliver robust, scalable cloud platform.

• You’ll be balancing business priorities and requirements to ensure operational stability, scalability and adherence to group standards.

• You’ll lead the continuous improvement plan to simplify platform and optimise cost.

• Take responsibility for developing and implementing IT Security policies for a broad area within the organisation and champion best practices in infrastructure security, resilience, and reliability.

• You’ll use knowledge and experience of Cloud technologies to help shape our strategy.

• Advise engineers on considerations around functional and non‑functional requirements and guide them during design, development and testing.

• Be solving technical problems at pace, identify and implement infrastructure updates following engineering best practices.

• Work alongside the team Product Owner to plan and manage the delivery of feature roadmap to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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 need

• An experienced engineering lead, platform/ infrastructure engineer with a recent focus on developing solutions on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

• Strong experience across cloud infrastructure components– compute, storage, networking, and security.

• Familiarity with PaaS services and 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 (e.g. Terraform or similar tools).

• Experience with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g Dynatrace).

• CI/CD: Detailed understanding of working automated CI/CD pipelines and experience of working with tools such as Jenkins, Harness etc.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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

• 30 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 along 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.