JOB TITLE: Senior GCP Cloud DevOps Engineer

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION: Manchester. Westminster House is located on Portland Street, with views over Piccadilly Gardens. A newly renovated office provides a gym, showers with changing facilities, event space and even a few walking desks. It is well connected by train, tram, and car with a number of nearby public car parks.

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

This is an excellent once in a career opportunity, to help shape your future as well as ours!

We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Native engineering Lab. This is a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK.

In this role you will build scalable systems that will shape the future of our cloud infrastructure for our bank. You'll also:

Collaborate with multiple teams to build and maintain a highly resilient, scalable cloud infrastructure
Design, develop, test, deploy, and automate robust and scalable services for both the internal engineering team and end users
Establish and manage CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and other use cases
Debug, solve, and resolve system-level scale, performance, and automation issues
Provide multi-tier support to both engineering and non-engineering customers
Contribute to Github repositories and perform code reviews for team members
Take ownership of projects, including analysis, design, development, deployment, and handover to end users
Ensure solutions meet control and security requirements, improve platform stability, and allow for a higher volume of changes and activity.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you'll need

A proven track record in a DevOps or Cloud Engineering role, ideally with a mix of consumer and SaaS technology
Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Jenkins, Gitlab CI/CD, Harness, or Cloud Build to automate the build, test, and deployment of applications
Hands-on experience writing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using Terraform
Familiarity with Linux and scripting languages like Python or Bash
Proven track record to take ownership of projects and responsibilities
Proficiency with serverless application architectures, utilising capabilities such as Google Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, or AWS Lambda
Experience using GitHub for source code management and performing code reviews

And any experience of these would be really useful

Experience working with GCP/Azure cloud infrastructure and their various services.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (k8s) and Docker in a production environment.
Experience working with Service Mesh (Istio/Anthos).
Experience with high-traffic monitoring systems, using tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and New Relic
Understanding of industry authentication and authorization patterns.
A keen eye for security and experience building secure systems, including secrets management, vulnerability scanning and identity and access management (IAM).

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.

And it's why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide ranging benefits package, which includes: