Infrastructure Engineer - Infrastructure Adoption Manchester, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Manchester, England
66861 - 74290 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Friday 22 September 2023
Salary Range
£66,861 - £74,290Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
Who are Lloyds Banking Group?We're the UK’s leading digital franchise, with over 13 million active online customers across our three main brands—including Lloyds Bank, Halifax and Bank of Scotland—as well as the biggest mobile bank in the country. Our mission is to build the bank of the future, and we need your help!
Job Description
JOB TITLE: GCP Infrastructure Engineer - Infrastructure Adoption
SALARY: £66,861 - £81,719
LOCATIONS: Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh or Halifax
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site
About this opportunity
Adoption of public and private cloud is a critical part of the Group strategy over the next several years, and our function is central to achieving this objective.
Our Infrastructure Adoption GCP team is looking for a skilled GCP Adoption Engineer to facilitate and accelerate adoption of LBG’s curated Google Cloud platform.
The role involves working closely with application teams to enable use of Google Cloud for their applications, helping them engineer and deliver solutions to our colleagues and customers. An ability to provide advice regards Google Cloud adoption, showcase strong interpersonal and communication skills, and engineer the development of deliverables to increase the automation and self-sufficiency of our cloud platform. Working with Infrastructure Adoption and the wider organisation, continually improving skills and knowledge using industry standard methodology and tooling.
What you’ll be involved in:
- Being a hands-on, technical specialist in Google Cloud services with detailed platform and technology knowledge, supporting our application teams with their deployment and operational activities.
- Google Cloud advocacy, sharing knowledge of cloud platforms with consuming teams and within our Cloud Centre of Excellence.
- Operating a ‘front-door’ service to the cloud platforms, facilitating the on-boarding of new customers and advising on how to consume the platform appropriately.
- Supporting creation and continuous improvement of the cloud documentation set to enable self-service consumption of the platform over time.
- Providing metrics and other MI to support consuming teams in their adoption of cloud.
About us
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need
- Experience working with a broad set of Google services and products.
- A strong technical background, ideally across both application development and infrastructure.
- A desire to learn about a broad range of technologies and their place within a complex and regulated financial organisation.
- Hands-on engineering capabilities with a variety of languages, frameworks and technologies
- Experience of leading and guiding colleagues or a team through processes from start to delivery.
- A comprehensive understanding of cloud native engineering principles and cloud security.
And any experience of these would be really useful
- Understanding of agile delivery methodologies and DevOps.
- Google Certified Associate Engineer or Professional Architect.
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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
- 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.
