Lloyds Banking Group
Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer

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Lead Google Cloud Platform Engineer
SALARY: £92,701 - 109,060
LOCATION(S): Bristol, Leeds, Manchester or Halifax
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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
What you'll be doing
We're modernising our technology platforms using public cloud that is secure, resilient, scalable and developer-friendly. This enables our engineering teams across the bank to deliver better outcomes for customers and supports the growth of our digital channels, data platforms and emerging AI capabilities.
Our core public cloud platform is Google Cloud Platform (GCP), already live and supporting business-critical workloads, with continued expansion planned.
As part of a product-aligned, agile engineering team, you'll help build, evolve and operate the foundational cloud platform services that underpin our technology landscape. You'll collaborate closely with software engineers, architects and security teams to ensure the platform is reliable, compliant and easy to use.
- Designing, engineering and optimising enterprise-scale GCP infrastructure and networking
- Developing and reviewing Infrastructure as Code using Terraform / Terraform Cloud
- Building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitHub, Jenkins and Harness
- Developing automation using Python, Bash and/or Groovy
- Owning cloud services through their full lifecycle (design, build, run, improve)
- Performing code reviews and helping drive engineering quality and consistency
- Working collaboratively with architecture, security and software engineering teams
- Providing BAU operational support, including incident and problem management
- Mentoring other engineers and supporting planning and technical decision-making
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We're investing billions in our people, places and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We're growing, and we'd love you to be part of the journey.
What we're looking for?
- 5+ years' experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) in production environments
- 5+ years' experience designing and supporting cloud networking, including: VPC, Interconnect, Firewalls, DNS, NAT, IAM and VPC-SC
- 3+ years' experience using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- 3+ years' experience working with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
- Experience working with Kubernetes / GKE
- Experience working in agile delivery environments (Scrum / Kanban, Jira, Confluence)
- Strong understanding of platform reliability, security and automation
And any experience of these would be great:
- Experience working with large-scale or hybrid GCP environments
- Experience with policy as code
- Experience using monitoring and observability tools such as Dynatrace or Google Cloud Monitoring
- Google Cloud Professional certifications
We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.


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Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
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
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