Cloud Engineer

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Thursday 19 September 2024
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
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION: 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 are 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

Please refer the Job description for details