
Public Cloud Engineering Lead
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Halifax • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £92,701 - £109,060 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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 effectively.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- Depth in one cloud (and readiness to cross-train): 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.
- Delivered hybrid-cloud, automated platforms in agile teams; collaborate across architecture and business stakeholders.
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
- Annual performance-related bonus.
- 30 days holiday plus bank holidays.
- Flexible benefits including discounted products and services.
- Share schemes and access to wellbeing support.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
Infrastructure-as-CodeTerraformCI/CDKubernetesAPI designRESTOpenAPIBashPowerShellPython
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationinnovationagile principlesproblem-solvinginspirationteam energizingorganizational skillsmentorship