Cloud Engineer

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Friday 24 May 2024
Salary Range
£78,849 - £87,610
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
Who are we?
Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) is a business platform that sits within Consumer Relationships and plays a critical role in supporting the achievement of the Group strategic view by working closely & collaboratively across the Platform leadership team to grow by protecting and deepening customer relationships. PEC enables & delivers personalised customer communications & experiences across all channels, media and business areas supporting the Customer Relationship Growth strategy to deepen relationships with our customers across both the retail & commercial bank. This includes the data, analytics, and technology to unlock the value of differentiating our branded channel experiences, proposition, price and communication; as well as paper-free sustainable ambitions.
This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Cloud Engineer. As the Cloud Engineer you’ll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will 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.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer – Personalised Experiences & Communications Platform

SALARY: £78,849 - £87,610

LOCATION(S): London
HOURS: [Full-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our London Office
About this opportunity…
This exciting opportunity is within the Personalised Experiences and Communications (PEC) platform for a Cloud Engineer. As the Cloud Engineer you’ll lead, direct and shape approaches to solving technical challenges and translating business requirements into technical solutions. You will 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 you’ll do:
This is a key role in the team so you will 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 will 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.
• Sustain and improve the process of knowledge sharing throughout the engineering teams.

About us…
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…
What we are looking for
An ideal Cloud Engineer will need to be able to display broad and deep technical experience with a passion for engineering excellence. We are looking for a dynamic and adaptable individual, able to use and learn new skills in varying circumstances. You’ll be curious about technology and understanding how things work and influence positively - demonstrating the right values and behaviours and encouraging this in team members.
We would be looking for the following…
We are looking for someone who comes from a DevOps, Cloud or Software engineering background that has a solid understanding of Cloud delivery, best practices, processes and supporting tools.

We would also look for -

• 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

Please refer the Job description for details