Public Cloud Engineering Lead, Lloyds
£92.7-109.1k
+ Performance-related bonus and share schemes
2 days a week in office (Wellington Place, Leeds)
Retail and commercial bank
Job no longer available
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£92.7-109.1k
+ Performance-related bonus and share schemes
2 days a week in office (Wellington Place, Leeds)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience delivering large-scale systems with performance, availability and fault-tolerance; experience setting SLOs/SLIs
- Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform (minimum) and one or more modern CI/CD systems (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness, Jenkins or Spinnaker)
- Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes) and service-mesh patterns (e.g., Istio)
- API design and security (REST/OpenAPI, authN/Z, mTLS and certificate lifecycle)
- Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python
- Azure: ARM/Bicep/Template Spec, AKS, Application Gateway, API Management (policies/C# basics), Azure Storage
- GCP: GKE, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Armor, Istio, Cloud Monitoring/Stackdriver, Jenkins, Apigee, compute/ VMs
- Harness experience in CI/CD, HashiCorp Vault, Dynatrace, Docker/buildah, NodeJS for API tooling, relevant Azure or GCP certifications
- Delivered hybrid-cloud, automated platforms in agile teams; collaborate across architecture and business stakeholders
- Technology-agnostic mindset; choose the best tool for the job and stay curious
- Enjoy mentoring and raising the engineering bar as a hands-on player-coach
- Vision and the ability to provide an engineering strategy and roadmap
- Self-starter who inspires and motivates the teams around you
- Ability to listen and reflect and respect the views of others as well as being able to communicate your own opinion but you are not strongly tied to it
- Champion an environment where teams are empowered to be autonomous and self-sufficient, and you provide purpose, guidance and support where needed
- Ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary, internal and external geographically distributed teams across the product lifecycle
- Develop skills using standard methodology and tools, in line with the team's engineering tools, to validate work and decisions
What the job involves
- We’re modernising with cloud – creating a platform that’s quick, secure and resilient for customers, and easy, modern and sustainable for developers
- Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform
- We're looking for Infrastructure Specialist Leads to join our Services Lab
- You’ll have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable us to become the biggest Fintech in the UK
- You’ll be responsible for leading a team of engineers to design, build and operate secure, automated cloud platform capabilities that enable product teams to deliver API-first services at pace and with confidence
- You’ll balance deep technical work with coaching others to raise the bar on reliability, security and simplicity
- A visionary leader who works with the Product Owner, Architects and teams to build an inspiring services engineering strategy that provides inspiration and purpose
- Responsible for creating amazing capabilities for our customers using technical expertise to deliver change through modern engineering tools and methods and by inspiring teams to embrace agile principles, encourage innovation, and foster a “Fail Fast, Learn Faster” approach
- An inspiring communicator who can work with all levels of the organisation, energising teams and ensuring communication is flowing affectively
- Work with the team and the wider Engineering Community to ensure that platforms and software are built consistently with relevant patterns and practices, ensuring a collaborative environment to share ideas and work through complex problems
- Design, build and operate platform capabilities using Infrastructure-as-Code and modern CI/CD
- Partner with architecture and feature teams to evolve our cloud roadmap and platform products
- Embed a secure-by-design mindset and controls from design to runtime, safeguarding colleagues and customers
- Define and operate against SLOs/SLIs; implement actionable observability, performance tuning and automation to reduce toil
- Enable API-first delivery with reusable patterns and golden paths for API producers/consumers; contribute to documentation and enablement
- Understand agile and the relationship between agile definitions and automated delivery
Application process
- End Date: Tuesday 20 January 2026
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy, but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
On top of this, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on "FinTech Action Labs" to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. The company continues to enhance its online and mobile services (it is the UK's biggest mobile bank), as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
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