Public Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group•Halifax, NS

6d•£47,790 - £53,100•Hybrid

About The Position

Modernising using cloud builds a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers. Our core technology focus is on Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. The Public Cloud Services Lab delivers centrally managed, secure and scalable cloud services across Azure and GCP. We focus on engineering excellence, automation and AI‑driven efficiency to provide clear, ready‑to‑consume platforms that make it easy for teams to onboard and run critical workloads. Our priority is a great customer and developer experience—simple engagement, strong documentation, and reliable, well‑operated services. You’ll 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. Your work will enable product teams to deliver API-first services at pace, employing reusable patterns and robust integration tools.

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 (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Harness).
Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes).
Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
Basic understanding in Azure ARM/Bicep/Template Spec AKS Application Gateway Azure Storage

Nice To Haves

API Management (policies/C# basics)
Harness experience in CI/CD
Dynatrace
Docker/buildah/Podman
Relevant Azure certifications

Responsibilities

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.