Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud)

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

Job summary

A leading UK banking group is seeking a Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud) to manage and enhance cloud infrastructure. This role involves mentoring engineers and ensuring operational excellence. The ideal candidate has strong experience in cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud, and expertise in infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD practices. The position offers a hybrid working model and a competitive salary, alongside a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Adaptable lifestyle benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experienced engineering lead with a focus on cloud solutions.
• Strong experience in compute, storage, networking, and security.
• Familiarity with PaaS and container technologies.

Responsibilities

• Manage cloud platform/infrastructure strategy.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers.
• Ensure operational stability and compliance.
• Implement IT Security policies and best practices.
• Advise on functional/non-functional requirements.
• Troubleshoot technical problems and implement updates.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure components

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Kubernetes

Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)

Monitoring tools (Dynatrace)

CI/CD pipelines

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 UKs 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