Public Cloud Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Halifax

Salary: £72,702–£80,780

Location: Halifax or Leeds. Workstyle: Hybrid (at least two days a week, approximately 40% on site).

Build the bank of the future with us. At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re building secure, resilient and scalable cloud platforms that power critical services for millions of customers.

Key responsibilities

• 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).

Automation & DevOps

• 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.

Reliability & SRE

• Apply Site Reliability Engineering practices to platform operations.
• Support incident response, monitoring, observability and continuous improvement.
• Diagnose issues across performance, scaling, storage and automation.
• Contribute to a 24×7 on‑call rotation.

Security & Compliance

• 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.

Networking & Platform Services

• Work with service mesh and ingress/egress patterns (Istio, Anthos, Cloud Service Mesh).
• Support cloud networking (VPCs, DNS, NAT, VPN, routing, connectivity).
• Integrate shared platform services (cert‑manager, observability, cost tooling).

Essential skills & experience

• 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.

Desirable experience

• Advanced GKE operational expertise (node pools, upgrades, scaling, security boundaries).
• Experience operating platforms at scale (multi‑cluster, multi‑tenant).
• Service mesh experience (Istio, mTLS, traffic management).
• Experience with policy‑as‑code (OPA Gatekeeper, Config Sync).
• Experience in regulated or compliance‑heavy environments.
• Strong focus on SRE and platform reliability improvements.

Nice to have

• Experience with Backstage or self‑service platform tooling.
• Familiarity with Anthos Config Management / Config Sync.
• Exposure to tools such as CoreDNS, cert‑manager, Dynatrace, Cloudability, Infoblox.
• Understanding of platform scaling challenges (ephemeral storage, workload density, resilience).
• Experience working with cloud providers on platform architecture.

Why join us

• Work on enterprise‑scale Kubernetes platforms used by millions.
• Influence cloud platform strategy across the Group.
• Solve real‑world challenges in scale, reliability and security.
• Build automation that improves developer experience and reduces toil.
• Join a team that values engineering excellence, ownership and innovation.

What we offer

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

We’re driven by a clear purpose: Helping Britain Prosper. We’re committed to building an inclusive environment where colleagues can grow, contribute and succeed.