Lloyds Banking Group
Public Cloud - Google Cloud Engineer
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Public Cloud - Google Cloud Engineer
Google Cloud Engineer
Location(S) Manchester
Salary Range £72,702 – £80,780
Hours Full time
Working Pattern At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices.
End Date Thursday 16 July 2026
Summary Cloud Engineer – Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
About the Team
Our Cloud Platform team is a well-established engineering group at the heart of one of the UK’s biggest financial-services transformations. We’re modernising the bank’s next-generation cloud platform, partnering with business and product teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions for:
- Analytics
- GenAI / Machine Learning
- Databases
- Application workloads
Our remit is broad:
- Product curation
- Data-warehousing capabilities
- Landing-zone engineering
- Automation
- Embedding AI into cloud workflows to improve developer experience, quality and efficiency
About the Role We're building a cloud platform that is:
- Quick
- Secure
- Resilient (for customers)
- Easy
- Modern
- Green (for developers)
This role focuses on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and we’re particularly interested in people with experience in:
- GCP Analytics, AI, Databases & Serverless products
- Networking, security, Identity and Access Management (IAM) & platform engineering
- Terraform
- CI/CD (Harness / GitHub Actions)
- Python
- Git workflows
- Backstage
- Policy-as-Code (Open Policy Agent)
- Security tooling (Organisation Policy, Security Health Analytics, Wiz)
- Dynatrace
Knowledge of multi-agent AI systems is also desirable.
We're looking for a Cloud Engineer with strong GCP experience, building end-to-end infrastructure solutions for engineering teams across the Group. You’ll:
- Drive automation across deployments and operations
- Take part in an out-of-hours support rota
About You You’re passionate about:
- Engineering excellence
- Automation
- Creating great developer experiences
You’re:
- Collaborative
- Curious
- Comfortable working across different domains in a fast-moving platform organisation
You’ll work side-by-side with:
- Engineering Leads
- Product Owners
- Partner teams
To:
- Deliver our roadmap
- Shape priorities
- Embed traditional and GenAI tooling
- Unblock delivery
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You’ll also:
- Contribute to technical communities
- Mentor early-career engineers
Key Responsibilities
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Design, build and maintain:
- Secure, scalable GCP infrastructure foundations
- IAM policy
- Key management
- Network patterns (Private Service Connect (PSC)/Private Service Access (PSA))
- Observability for services such as:
- BigQuery
- Composer
- Vertex AI
- AlloyDB
- Spanner
- Cloud Run
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Build and maintain:
- Reusable Terraform modules
- Automated deployment patterns for:
- Analytics
- AI/ML
- Databases
- Serverless products
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Develop CI/CD pipelines using:
- Harness CI
- Python
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Translate threat-model and policy requirements into:
- Policy-as-code guardrails (e.g., Wiz / Rego / Custom Org Policy / Common Expression Language (CEL))
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Create and evolve:
- Self-service Golden Paths via Backstage templates
- Scaffolding
- Documentation
- Automation hooks
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Partner with:
- Security
- Risk
- Architecture
- Delivery teams
- Aim for compliance with regulated-industry standards
- Maintain engineering pace
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Improve operational excellence across:
- Monitoring
- Incident response
- Problem management
- Cost optimization
- Reliability
- Participate in out-of-hours (OOH) support
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Prototype and productionise:
- GenAI and agentic-AI automation
- E.g., AI-assisted deployments, documentation generation, policy reasoning
- Tools: Gemini on GCP and Copilot Studio
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Participate in:
- Agile ceremonies
- Continuous workflow, tool, and process improvement
Essential Skills & Experience
- Platform Engineering experience with a consistent record of:
- Delivering and operating solutions on GCP
- Hands-on experience:
- Designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines
- GitHub Actions, Harness, or similar tools
- Understanding:
- Configuration-management tools for infrastructure automation and policy enforcement
- Expertise in:
- Terraform
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Proficiency in at least one:
- Programming/scripting language (Python, Go, Bash)
- Ability to:
- Take ownership of features and products through to successful delivery
- Experience:
- Cloud-service products through their lifecycle
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to:
- Explain technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
- Comfortable working in a:
- Fast-paced, dynamic, evolving environment
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What You’ll Get in Return
We’re committed to equal opportunity and building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve.
Your:
- Wellbeing
- Growth
- Development
Matter to us. You’ll receive:
- A performance-based share bonus
- A flexible benefits pot
- A generous pension contribution
- Private health cover
- Up to 30 days annual leave (with the option to purchase more)
- Access to colleague share schemes
We’re Committed to Inclusivity
We want to create an inclusive organisation that:
- Reflects modern society
- Celebrates diversity in all its forms
We want all colleagues to:
- Feel they belong
- Can be their best, unconditionally
If you’d like reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
About Lloyds Banking Group
Purpose: To help Britain prosper.
Focus: Making a difference to customers, businesses and communities.
Mission: Shape the future of finance, while helping colleagues to learn, grow and develop.
Your data is safe. We’ll only ask you for confidential or sensitive information after a formal interview invitation or verbal offer, this is when we conduct background checks. Any request will:
- Be explained clearly
- Come from trusted representatives
Values-Led Culture: We’re building a diverse workforce that reflects the customers and communities we serve. Together, we create an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and make an impact.
320 Years of Change: Currently in the midst of transformation. Join us today to help drive change and shape finance for a dynamic future.
Contact Us
For more information, email: careers@lloydsbanking.com
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