Public Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Halifax; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A major financial institution in the UK seeks an innovative Software Engineer to configure monitoring solutions and enhance proactive issue detection. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software engineering, collaboration skills, and familiarity with Azure services, IaC, and DevOps practices. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact and contribute to a values-driven culture, alongside a competitive benefits package including a generous pension and annual bonuses.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Adaptable benefits for lifestyle

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in software engineering with a passion for technology.
• Familiarity with IaC tools and willingness to learn advanced practices.
• Knowledge of Azure services including storage, monitoring, and networking.

Responsibilities

• Configure monitoring and alerting solutions with Azure Monitor.
• Collaborate with Labs and Platform teams on integration.
• Support Disaster Recovery configurations and resilience testing.

Skills

Software engineering

Collaboration and knowledge sharing

Automation and observability practices

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

DevOps and CI/CD concepts

Azure services understanding

Basic identity and access management

Cost optimization techniques

Tools

Terraform

Python

PowerShell

Azure Policy

Job description

Configure monitoring and alerting solutions using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics to enable proactive issue detection.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

• Contribute to team knowledge sharing and peer support, demonstrating collaborative behaviours and learning from senior engineers.
• Work with other Labs and Platform teams to integrate landing zone components and follow agreed design principles.
• Adopt an SRE mindset by applying automation and observability practices to improve reliability and reduce manual effort.
• We're seeking an experienced, motivated and innovative hands‑on Software Engineer to play a pivotal role in contributing to a feature team success.
• The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in software engineering and a passion for technology. Commitment to delivering high‑quality, scalable solutions is a must.,
• Familiarity with IaC (Terraform, Python, Powershell and willingness to learn advanced practices
• Exposure to Devops and CI/CD Concepts (eg Harness Backstage)
• Foundational knowledge of Azure LZ Services (eg storage, monitoring etc)
• Implement and maintain Policy and Management Group structures under guidance, ensuring compliance and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Support Disaster Recovery (DR) and Backup configurations, following established patterns and contributing to resilience testing., Good understanding of Azure services including storage, monitoring, backup/recovery, management groups, subscriptions, networking, and firewalls.
• Awareness of FinOps principles and ability to apply cost optimization techniques under guidance.
• Security‑conscious engineering approach, including basic identity and access management principles and handling of keys/secrets.
• Familiarity with governance tooling such as Azure Policy and ability to apply predefined policies.
• Experience with platform automation for asset tracking and cost management scenarios.
• Ability to collaborate with compliance and risk teams to implement technical controls based on regulatory requirements.
• Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

Company Overview

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.

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 We also offer a wide‑ranging benefits package, which includes

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