
Public Cloud Assistant Infrastructure Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Manchester • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £47,790 - £53,100 per year
About the role
- Assist with the design, build, and operate secure, automated cloud platform capabilities that support both API Gateway solutions and a broader set of Integration cloud products.
- Responsible for: 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 approach 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.
- Contribute to communities of practice, upholding Platform Engineering standards expected at Grade D.
Requirements
- Track record 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 (GitHub Actions, Harness).
- Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes).
- Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
- Basic understanding in GCP GKE Cloud Load Balancing Cloud Armor Cloud Monitoring/Stackdriver
- Desirable Apigee Harness experience in CI/CD Dynatrace Docker/buildah/Podman NodeJS for API tooling
- Relevant GCP certifications
Benefits
- 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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Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure-as-CodeTerraformCI/CDKubernetesBashPowerShellPythonGCPAPI GatewayPerformance tuning
Soft Skills
CollaborationDocumentationCommunity engagementProblem-solvingCommunication
Certifications
GCP certifications