Cloud Engineer

JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £81,999 - £91,110

LOCATION: London

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

This great opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform. As the Cloud Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You’ll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

What will I be doing?

• This is a key role in the team so you’ll have the opportunity work with all our feature teams to establish the cloud patterns and principles of the team in line with the Group’s methodologies

• You’ll focus on the cloud elements of the solutions, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly while continuously improving and developing our processes

• You’ll be responsible for the build & support for shared hosting services such as Kubernetes, Ingress/Egress, Networking patterns, Certificates & data resources

• You’ll focus on the cloud engineering elements of the software engineering role, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly in the cloud while continuously improving and developing our processes

• You’ll help us to learn and implement the best use of DevOps tools & cloud resources, like Jenkins, Kubernetes, Harness and help us maintain our hosting platform

• Creating and improving routes to live with automation including blue/green & canary strategies

• Configure and improve observability controls

• Proving scalability/resilience and security controls

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• To display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence

• We’re looking for someone who comes from a DevOps, Cloud or Software engineering background that has a solid understanding of Cloud delivery

• Strong Cloud Engineering and DevOps exposure preferably GCP

• Proven experience and understanding of cloud native solutions

• Proven experience configuring & running production workloads in Kubernetes

• CI/CD & IaC tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Sonar, Nexus, Git, Spinnaker, Harness

• Strong understanding & experience of Observability, SRE, DevSecOps & FinOps

• Good understanding of cloud networking & connectivity patterns

• Good understanding of key data tooling such as Kafka, BigTable, DataProc, BigQuery etc..

It would be great if you also had

• Network protocols & security

• Chaos Testing

• Contract Testing

• APIGEE

• Java Spring Boot

• Kafka

• Microservices

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 underrepresented 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:

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.