Senior Infrastructure Engineer, Public Cloud

Lloyds Banking Group

Senior Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer responsible for building and operating Kubernetes platforms at Lloyds Banking Group. Focused on delivering robust cloud infrastructure and automation solutions.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeHalifax • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £72,702 - £80,780 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDNSGoGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesNode.jsPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build and operate scalable, resilient GKE environments
Engineer multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters with strong workload isolation and platform guardrails
Support shared and dedicated cluster patterns, including tenant onboarding
Improve platform performance under production conditions (e.g. scaling, storage, node pressure)
Build automation-first infrastructure using Terraform, CI/CD and GitOps
Simplify cluster lifecycle management (provisioning, upgrades, add-ons)
Develop self-service platform capabilities to improve developer experience
Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices to platform operations
Support incident response, monitoring, observability and continuous improvement
Diagnose issues across performance, scaling, storage and automation
Contribute to a 24x7 on-call rotation
Implement policy-as-code controls (e.g. OPA Gatekeeper, RBAC, workload identity)
Support audit, compliance and risk mitigation activities
Ensure platforms are secure, supportable and aligned to control frameworks
Work with service mesh and ingress/egress patterns (e.g. Istio, Anthos, Cloud Service Mesh)
Support cloud networking (VPCs, DNS, NAT, VPN, routing, connectivity)
Integrate shared platform services (cert-manager, observability, cost tooling)

Requirements

What you’ll need

Strong experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE
Proven delivery of production Kubernetes platforms, ideally GKE
Experience with multi-tenant platform environments (shared clusters, isolation, scaling)
Deep understanding of Kubernetes internals (scheduling, storage, node lifecycle, upgrades)
Strong knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including: GKE IAM / Workload Identity Networking (VPC, DNS, NAT, ingress/egress) Storage patterns
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) using modular design
Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows
Coding/scripting (Python, Go or Bash)
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
Ability to own and deliver complex engineering outcomes

Benefits

Comp & perks

Performance bonus
Generous pension
Flexible benefits package
Private healthcare
30 days holiday + bank holidays
Share schemes

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Hard Skills & Tools

KubernetesGKETerraformCI/CDGitOpsPythonGoBashSite Reliability Engineeringpolicy-as-code

Soft Skills

troubleshootingproblem-solvingownershipdeliverycommunication