Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Salary Range: £72,702 - £80,780

Location: Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Halifax & Leeds

Hours: Full-time

Working Pattern: Hybrid – spend at least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at the location above.

We are modernising our infrastructure using Google Cloud, building platforms that are secure, resilient for customers, and simple and efficient for engineers to use. As a Senior Infrastructure Engineer, you will work as part of a collaborative, product‑focused team to design, build, operate and improve cloud infrastructure and services. You will contribute to meaningful products, support continuous improvement, and help deliver reliable and scalable solutions that make a positive impact for customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, develop and improve cloud infrastructure and platform services
• Write, review and maintain Infrastructure as Code, ensuring security and quality standards are met
• Support the operation of existing products and services, including incident response and customer requests
• Develop, test and release new features and enhancements for existing platforms
• Manage and track work through agreed delivery tools and processes (e.g. Jira)
• Use automation and AI‑enabled tooling to improve efficiency, reliability and cost effectiveness
• Identify opportunities to improve products, services and operational processes
• Contribute to sprint planning, roadmap activities and delivery milestones
• Actively invest in learning, development and knowledge‑sharing
• Support and mentor junior engineers, helping to build an inclusive and supportive team culture
• Provide cover for the Lead Engineer when required

This role includes participation in a shared on‑call rota.

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Experience designing, building or supporting cloud‑based infrastructure solutions
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g. Terraform or equivalent)
• Experience with version control and collaboration tools (e.g. GitHub or similar)
• Understanding of secure engineering practices and industry best standards
• Experience working in agile delivery environments (e.g. Scrum or Kanban)
• Experience with DevOps practices, including CI/CD
• Ability to communicate clearly, listen to different perspectives and contribute constructively
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective technical solutions
• Proactive approach to identifying and resolving technical issues or bottlenecks

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience working with Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Experience with cloud networking or security services, such as:

• Firewalls
• Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Organisation policies and networking controls

If you do not meet all the desirable criteria, we still encourage you to apply.

About Working With Us:

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong and can perform at their best. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences. We are Disability Confident. If you need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

What We Offer:

• Pension contribution of up to 15%
• Annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Flexible benefits that support different lifestyles
• 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you want to do work that’s interesting, collaborative and makes a real difference at scale, we’d love to hear from you.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.