
Google Cloud Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Manchester • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £70,929 - £78,810 per year
About the role
- Design, build and maintain secure, scalable GCP infrastructure foundations, including IAM policy, key management, network patterns (PSC/PSA), and observability for services such as BigQuery, Composer, Vertex AI, AlloyDB, Spanner and Cloud Run
- Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automated deployment patterns for analytics, AI/ML, database and serverless products
- Develop CI/CD pipelines using Harness CI and Python to automate delivery and reduce manual effort
- Translate threat‑model and policy requirements into policy‑as‑code guardrails (Wiz / Rego / Custom Org Policy / CEL)
- Create and evolve self‑service Golden Paths via Backstage templates, scaffolding, documentation and automation hooks
- Partner with security, risk, architecture and delivery teams to meet regulated‑industry standards while maintaining engineering pace
- Improve operational excellence across monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation and reliability, including participating in OOH support
- Prototype and productionise GenAI and agentic‑AI automation (e.g., AI‑assisted deployments, documentation generation, policy reasoning) using tools including Gemini on GCP and Copilot Studio
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and support continuous improvement of workflows, tools and processes
Requirements
- Experience in Platform Engineering with a consistent record of delivering and operating solutions on GCP
- Hands‑on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Harness or similar
- Understanding of configuration‑management tools for infrastructure automation and policy enforcement
- Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
- Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go or Bash)
- Ability to take ownership of features and products through to successful delivery
- Experience handling cloud‑service products through their lifecycle
- Strong written and verbal communication, able to explain technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
- Comfortable working in a fast‑paced, dynamic and evolving environment
Benefits
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
GCPTerraformCI/CDPythonGitHub ActionsInfrastructure as Codepolicy-as-codeAI/MLBigQueryCloud Run
Soft Skills
communicationownershipproblem managementoperational excellencecontinuous improvementcollaborationadaptabilitydocumentationincident responseteamwork