End Date Friday 03 January 2025 Salary Range £68,202 - £102,303 We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share Job Description Summary. Job Description JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer SALARY: The salary banding for this role in London is £78,849 - £87,610 and for Bristol the salary banding is £68,202 - £75,780 LOCATION: London & Bristol 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 great opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform. As the Cloud Engineer you'll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You’ll work in a highly collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our software working closely with the product and engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy. What will I be doing? This is a key role in the team so you’ll have the opportunity work with all our feature teams to establish the cloud patterns and principles of the team in line with the Group’s methodologies You’ll focus on the cloud elements of the solutions, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly while continuously improving and developing our processes You’ll be responsible for the build & support for shared hosting services such as Kubernetes, Ingress/Egress, Networking patterns, Certificates & data resources You’ll focus on the cloud engineering elements of the software engineering role, helping us to deploy software regularly and smoothly in the cloud while continuously improving and developing our processes You’ll help us to learn and implement the best use of DevOps tools & cloud resources, like Jenkins, Kubernetes, Harness and help us maintain our hosting platform Creating and improving routes to live with automation including blue/green & canary strategies Configure and improve observability controls Proving scalability/resilience and security controls 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 To display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence We’re looking for someone who comes from a DevOps, Cloud or Software engineering background that has a solid understanding of Cloud delivery Strong Cloud Engineering and DevOps exposure preferably GCP Proven experience and understanding of cloud native solutions Proven experience configuring & running production workloads in Kubernetes CI/CD & IaC tools like Jenkins, Terraform, Sonar, Nexus, Git, Spinnaker, Harness Strong understanding & experience of Observability, SRE, DevSecOps & FinOps Good understanding of cloud networking & connectivity patterns Good understanding of key data tooling such as Kafka, BigTable, DataProc, BigQuery etc It would be great if you also had Network protocols & security Chaos Testing Contract Testing APIGEE Java Spring Boot Kafka Microservices 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: 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 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.