Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer

End Date

Wednesday 01 July 2026

Salary Range

£72,702 - £80,780

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

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, resilient GKE environments
• Engineer multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with strong workload isolation and platform guardrails
• Support shared and dedicated cluster patterns, including tenant onboarding
• Improve platform performance under production conditions (e.g. scaling, storage, node pressure)

Automation & DevOps

• Build automation-first infrastructure using Terraform, CI/CD and GitOps
• Simplify cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, add-ons)
• Develop self-service platform capabilities to improve developer experience

Reliability & SRE

• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to platform operations
• Support incident response, monitoring, observability and continuous improvement
• Diagnose issues across performance, scaling, storage and automation
• Contribute to a 24x7 on-call rotation

Security & Compliance

• Implement policy-as-code controls (e.g. OPA Gatekeeper, RBAC, workload identity)
• Support audit, compliance and risk mitigation activities
• Ensure platforms are secure, supportable and aligned to control frameworks

Networking & Platform Services

• Work with service mesh and ingress/egress patterns (e.g. Istio, Anthos, Cloud Service Mesh)
• Support cloud networking (VPCs, DNS, NAT, VPN, routing, connectivity)
• Integrate shared platform services (cert-manager, observability, cost tooling)

Essential skills & experience

• Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE
• Proven delivery of production Kubernetes platforms, ideally GKE
• Experience with multi-tenant platform environments (shared clusters, isolation, scaling)
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (scheduling, storage, node lifecycle, upgrades)
• Strong knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including:
  • GKE
  • IAM / Workload Identity
  • Networking (VPC, DNS, NAT, ingress/egress)
  • Storage patterns
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) using modular design
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
• Coding/scripting (Python, Go or Bash)
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to own and deliver complex engineering outcomes

Desirable experience

• Advanced GKE operational expertise (node pools, upgrades, scaling, security boundaries)
• Experience operating platforms at scale (multi-cluster, multi-tenant)
• Service mesh experience (e.g. Istio, mTLS, traffic management)
• Experience with policy-as-code (OPA Gatekeeper, Config Sync)
• Experience in regulated or compliance-heavy environments
• Strong focus on SRE and platform reliability improvements

Nice to have

• Experience with Backstage or self-service platform tooling
• Familiarity with Anthos Config Management / Config Sync
• Exposure to tools such as CoreDNS, cert-manager, Dynatrace, Cloudability, Infoblox
• Understanding of platform scaling challenges (ephemeral storage, workload density, resilience)
• Experience working with cloud providers on platform architecture

Why join us

• Work on enterprise-scale Kubernetes platforms used by millions
• Influence cloud platform strategy across the Group
• Solve real-world challenges in scale, reliability and security
• Build automation that improves developer experience and reduces toil
• Join a team that values engineering 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.

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.