Public Cloud Assistant Infrastructure Engineer in Manchester

Salary Range: £47,790 - £53,100

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options.

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Locations: Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Halifax & Edinburgh

Hours: Full time

Agile Working Options: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40% of your time) in one of our offices.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're all driven by our purpose, to Help Britain Prosper. It's why we exist - it's our reason to get out of bed in the morning. The choices we make, our success and our future really matter.

But the world is changing, fast. And we're changing too. It's never been a more exciting time to join us as we transform our business to shape finance as a force for good.

Our team is modernising with cloud, 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.

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, demonstrating reusable patterns and robust integration tools.

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.

Core skills (cloud‑agnostic):

• 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 (GitHub Actions, Harness).
• Containers & orchestration (Kubernetes).
• Scripting in Bash, PowerShell or Python.
• Basic understanding in GCP, GKE, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Armor, Cloud Monitoring/Stackdriver.

Desirable:

• Apigee
• Harness experience in CI/CD
• Dynatrace
• Docker/buildah/Podman
• NodeJS for API tooling
• Relevant GCP certifications

About working for us:

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 under‑represented 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:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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'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.