Lead Infrastructure Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization seeks a Lead Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester. This role involves contributing to the design of cloud solutions and leading DevOps initiatives. Candidates should have extensive infrastructure engineering experience, strong communication and leadership skills, and a passion for technology. The position offers a hybrid work model and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Extensive experience building solutions following Infrastructure as Code standard methodologies.
• Firsthand experience building solutions for the public cloud.
• Strong experience of DevOps automation principles, processes and toolsets.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of the HCP Terraform.
• Lead technical conversations with partners and stakeholders.
• Promote and advocate for HCP Terraform and Devops services.
• Provide leadership, education and mentoring to support junior colleagues.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering experience

CI/CD pipelines

Strong communication skills

Leadership abilities

Containerization

Terraform

Kubernetes

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Job description

Job Overview

JOB TITLE: Lead Infrastructure Engineer

LOCATION: Manchester

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 one of our office sites.

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY: The Engineering Platform team is on a mission to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group, a single platform consumed by every engineer and platform across the entire group. You’ll be at the heart of one of the UK’s biggest financial services technical transformations maximising the use of shared tools and technology across our organisation. This is an extraordinary opportunity to shape how we evolve across the group. Due to the nature of this work, we are looking for tenacious, motivated, and innovative hands-on Senior Infrastructure/Devops Engineers with a real passion for technology and a commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions, a positive role model with an unstoppable desire to deliver the best possible solution for all.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Contribute to the design and implementation of the HCP Terraform including deployment of hosted components on Kubernetes and other host platforms.
• Configuration design & change to continue extending the HCP Terraform service to fit both the pace of change in public cloud deployments and extend into management of hybrid cloud and other management systems.
• Securing the use of HCP Terraform with hands-on development of policy controls and custom control scripts.
• Development of Harness Pipeline to automate CI/CD deployment.
• Automation of processes developing reusable components, writing automated test scripts, performing code reviews, and creating technical documentation – leading by example.
• Own, lead and drive features and stories via Jira and the Jira Align framework.
• Assess and exploit new features to deliver business value to our engineering customer base.
• Promote and advocate for HCP Terraform and Devops services across the LBG Engineering community. Consult on best practice usage of Terraform and IaC.
• Specialist support for the run and service aspects of the HCP Terraform Service.
• Lead technical conversations with partners of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts.
• Collaborate across internal, external, and third-party teams, working closely with other team members.
• Provide leadership, education and mentoring to support junior colleagues and different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

• Experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Extensive experience building solutions following Infrastructure as Code standard methodologies employing Terraform and other IaC languages.
• Firsthand experience building solutions for the public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) including compute, storage, security, and networking.
• Experience with containerisation & Kubernetes, including deployment using Helm and cloud Kubernetes service (AKS, GKE).
• Experience in management of enterprise-class automation toolsets (desirable).
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Proficient understanding of CI/CD principles, including version control, automated testing, deployment strategies, and infrastructure as code.
• Strong experience of DevOps automation principles, processes and toolsets including repositories, scanning, testing tools, and certificate/secrets management.
• Extensive experience of at least one high-level programming language, preferably Python or Go.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to engage with stakeholders across the organisation.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, with a passion for sharing knowledge and guiding team members.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

Someone with a passion for technology and how it can be adopted and used for our colleagues and customers. A genuine curiosity about emerging tech and its application would be beneficial. You will work in a highly collaborative way, working with other specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers, partner resources and third parties. You’re adaptable, able to learn new skills in varying circumstances and comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership using your own judgment. Innovation is at the backbone of this team, with a focus on trying the unproven and pushing our tech forward. To succeed in this role you would need to be tenacious and resilient.

ABOUT WORKING FOR US

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. We’re investing in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

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’re disability confident. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.