Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud)

Lloyds Banking Group • Bristol, UK • 1d ago

JOB TITLE: IT Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud)

SALARY: £47,790 – £53,100

LOCATIONS: 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 your time, at one of our office sites.

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 are 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 will 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 BE DOING

You’ll use your knowledge of cloud platform/ infrastructure engineering to build and deliver new infrastructure that powers our platforms.

Keep our existing cloud systems running smoothly, evolving with our needs and improve the reliability of our solutions.

Make sure our platforms scale effectively with the right capacity and triggers.

Champion best practices in infrastructure security, resilience, and reliability.

You'll use knowledge and experience of Cloud technologies to help shape our strategy.

Work with your team to deliver functional and non-functional requirements ensuring these are being met during design, software development and testing.

Be solving technical problems at pace, identify and implement infrastructure updates following engineering best practices.

Get the opportunity to work with modern tech, data stacks, and cloud-based architectures, managing both the foundational data solutions alongside the adoption of advanced AI and ML capabilities.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

An experienced platform, data and/ or infrastructure engineer with a recent focus on developing solutions on cloud platform (e.g. GCP/AWS/Azure).

Strong independent reasoning and problem solving abilities. Excellent spoken and written communication to allow for effective team work on complex challenges and solutions.

Strong experience across cloud infrastructure – compute, storage, networking, and security.

Familiarity with PaaS services, serverless solutions (e.g. GCP Cloud Run), 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 and tooling (e.g. Terraform).

Experience with monitoring and alerting tools.

CI/CD: Detailed understanding of working automated CI/CD pipelines and experience of working with tools such as Jenkins, Harness etc.

It's okay if one or two of these are things you're not used to. We want people who are eager to learn, grow, and teach us something in the process.

BONUS POINTS FOR EXPERIENCE WITH:

Industry Standard: GCP Cloud Architect/ Engineer certifications or equivalent.

Experience with Internal Developer Platform paradigm and tooling (e.g. Backstage).

Appreciation of data security and privacy, and architectural implications for infrastructure and application.

Practical experience of current technology domains and architectures – e.g. unified batch/streaming pipelines, data lake, AI/ML etc.

High-level knowledge of QA, data quality, and software quality tools such as SonarQube, etc.

ABOUT WORKING FOR US

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: