Lead Azure Cloud Adoption Engineer

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Thursday 13 June 2024
Salary Range
£86,964 - £158,581
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
Lead Azure Cloud Adoption Engineer
LOCATION(S): Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax, Leeds, Manchester
WORKING PATTERN: Full Time hybrid: two days per week at one of the above office sites
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.
The successful candidate will have an outstanding opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable Lloyds Banking Group to become the biggest Fintech in the UK.
About this opportunity
The Infrastructure Adoption team is on the journey to accelerate the use of the next generation technical platform. That will be at the core of one of the UK’s biggest financial service transformations. We’re looking for a Lead Engineer to join our Azure Engineering team within the Cloud Native Engineering Lab.
We’re seeking a highly experienced and motivated hands-on Engineer to play a pivotal role in leading and crafting the adoption of our Azure platforms.
You’ll be working closely with business units within bank, supporting use of public cloud for their applications, helping them engineer and deliver solutions to our customers.
You’ll advise on Public Cloud Adoption and will showcase strong interpersonal and communication skills. All this, while continually developing yourself and your team with new industry trends and tooling.
The ideal candidate will have proven experience in software engineering, infrastructure and architecture, a passion for technology and dedication to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You’ll have first-hand experience of supporting the adoption of, and migration to, public cloud from more traditional technologies. You’ll have worked hands-on and broadly with Azure technologies and bring T-shaped expertise in a particular field such as Kubernetes, Networking, API, Databases, Virtual Machines or Serverless.

Day to day, you’ll….

• Support our customers’ complex demands by applying deep technical knowledge to ensure robust, end-to-end outcomes
• Support the growth of Cloud Adoption by advising, guiding and implementing industrustry best practises into consuming teams and acting as a tireless ambassador for public cloud.
• Lead on supporting wider up-skilling initiatives, advocating to engineering colleagues to provide education and mentorship.
• Be able to get hands-on and contribute to code on a regular basis – leading by example
• Take ownership for your team’s day to day running, managing their priorities and helping remove impediments
• Work closely with Product Owners to gather and interpret the needs of internal customers across the bank as well as feed into product roadmaps and vision
• Be proficient in leading technical conversations with partners of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Domain Experts
• Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams
• Drive outstanding approaches to automation and security
• Be an SME in delivering outstanding public cloud hosted solutions
• Take on line management responsibilities for Junior and Senior engineers

What you’ll need

• SME/Advanced skills in at least one of: Azure Kubernetes Service & Istio, Azure Networking, Azure Databases, Azure API Management, Azure Native VM technologies, Azure Virtualisation Service (certifications desirable).
• Strong experience of the adoption and/or migration of business applications to public cloud at enterprise scale
• Great understanding of Cloud Native engineering principles and experience of delivering systems based on them
• Understanding of writing and contributing Terraform/ARM/Bicep to curate cloud infrastructure for enterprise
• Experience of leading a team of engineers and multiple priorities using agile methodologies.
• Experience of building DevSecOps approach to infrastructure as code and application CI/CD
• Understanding of cloud security best practises and principles at an enterprise level
• Appreciation of network security fundamentals – WAF/WAP/Firewalls and ingress/egress patterns

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. If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, please let us know.
If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.
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

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