Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Halifax

Full time

Posted Yesterday

148398

End Date

Wednesday 01 July 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £80,780

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description Senior Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Salary: £72,702-£80,780 Location: Halifax or Leeds Workstyle: Hybrid (at least two days a week/on average 40% on site) Build the bank of the future with us At Lloyds Banking Group, we're building secure, resilient and scalable cloud platforms that power critical services for millions of customers.

We're modernising at pace-creating engineering-led platforms that are easy to consume, secure by design, and operate at enterprise scale.

We're hiring two Senior Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineers to join our Google Cloud / GKE Platform team . This is a hands-on engineering role focused on building and operating large-scale Kubernetes platforms in a regulated environment.

You'll work on a multi-tenant Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) platform , solving complex platform challenges across automation, security, observability and reliability . Key responsibilities Platform Engineering (GKE)

*Design, build and operate scalable, resilientGKE environments

*Engineermulti-tenant Kubernetes clusters with strong workload isolation and platform guardrails

*Supportshared and dedicated cluster patterns , including tenant onboarding

Improve platform performance under production conditions (e.g. scaling, storage, node pressure)

Automation & DevOps

*Buildautomation-first infrastructure using Terraform, CI/CD and GitOps

*Simplifycluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, add-ons)

*Developself-service platform capabilities to improve developer experience

Reliability & SRE

*ApplySite Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to platform operations

*Supportincident response, monitoring, observability and continuous improvement

*Diagnose issues acrossperformance, scaling, storage and automation

*Contribute to a24x7 on-call rotation

Security & Compliance

*Implementpolicy-as-code controls (e.g. OPA Gatekeeper, RBAC, workload identity)

*Supportaudit, compliance and risk mitigation activities

*Ensure platforms aresecure, supportable and aligned to control frameworks

Networking & Platform Services

*Work withservice mesh and ingress/egress patterns (e.g. Istio, Anthos, Cloud Service Mesh)

*Supportcloud networking (VPCs, DNS, NAT, VPN, routing, connectivity)

Integrateshared platform services (cert-manager, observability, cost tooling) Essential skills & experience Strong experience inPlatform Engineering, DevOps or SRE

*Proven delivery ofproduction Kubernetes platforms , ideally GKE

*Experience withmulti-tenant platform environments (shared clusters, isolation, scaling)

*Deep understanding ofKubernetes internals (scheduling, storage, node lifecycle, upgrades)

*Strong knowledge ofGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP) , including

GKE

IAM / Workload Identity

Networking (VPC, DNS, NAT, ingress/egress)

Storage patterns

*Experience withInfrastructure as Code (Terraform) using modular design

*Strong experience withCI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows

Coding/scripting (Python, Go or Bash)

*Strongtroubleshooting and problem-solving skills

*Ability toown and deliver complex engineering outcomes

Desirable experience *AdvancedGKE operational expertise (node pools, upgrades, scaling, security boundaries)

*Experience operatingplatforms at scale (multi-cluster, multi-tenant)

*Service mesh experience (e.g.Istio, mTLS, traffic management )

*Experience withpolicy-as-code (OPA Gatekeeper, Config Sync)

*Experience inregulated or compliance-heavy environments

Strong focus onSRE and platform reliability improvements Nice to have Experience withBackstage or self-service platform tooling

*Familiarity withAnthos Config Management / Config Sync

*Exposure to tools such asCoreDNS, cert-manager, Dynatrace, Cloudability, Infoblox

*Understanding ofplatform scaling challenges (ephemeral storage, workload density, resilience)

Experience working withcloud providers on platform architecture Why join us Work onenterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms used by millions

*Influencecloud platform strategy across the Group

*Solve real-world challenges inscale, reliability and security

*Build automation that improvesdeveloper experience and reduces toil

*Join a team that valuesengineering excellence, ownership and innovation What we offer

Performance bonus

Generous pension

Flexible benefits package

Private healthcare

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Share schemes

Working at Lloyds Banking Group We're driven by a clear purpose: Helping Britain Prosper .

We're committed to building an inclusive environment where colleagues can grow, contribute and succeed.

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.

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