Lead Platform Engineer (GCP)

End date
Thursday 09 May 2024

Salary range
£86,964 - £102,310

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Agile Working Options
Job Share; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE : Lead Platform Engineer

SALARY : £86,964 - £102,310 for outside London and £100,657 - £118,420+ for London

LOCATION (S): Leeds, London or Edinburgh

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 our office site.

About this opportunity :

The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for an Engineering Lead to join our GCP Engineering team within the Cloud Native engineering Lab.

The successful candidate will have a unique 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.

We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on Engineering Lead to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our GCP platform.

The ideal candidate will have experience in software engineering and architecture, a passion for technology and commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions. You'll have worked hands-on and broadly with GCP technologies and bring T-shaped expertise in a particular field such as Kubernetes, Networking, API, Databases, Virtual Machines or Serverless.

Why Lloyds Banking Group :

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What will you be doing with us?

• You’ll lead or contribute to the architectural design of cloud platform technologies and products across our ecosystem.
• You’ll be able to get hands-on and contribute code on a regular basis - leading by example.
• Be proficient in leading technical conversations with stakeholders of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts
• Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams
• Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security
• Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering cloud engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling
• Be an SME in a particular aspect of cloud engineering or product category.

Why Lloyds Banking Group :

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you’ll need:

• SME/Advanced skills in at least one of: Google Kubernetes Service & Istio, GCP Networking, GCP Databases, GCP API Management (APIgee), GCP Serverless (certifications in areas of specialism are desirable or significant experience).
• Strong experience of security configuration management via guardrails (Inspec, Org Policy, GCP Policy, OPA)

• Strong experience of writing and contributing Terraform to curate cloud infrastructure for enterprise. Python also desirable but not required.
• Great understanding of Cloud Native engineering principles and experience of delivering systems based on them.
• Experience of building DevSecOps approach to infrastructure as code and application CI/CD
• Understanding of cloud security best practises and principles for enterprise
• Usage of enterprise Secret Management solutions including GCP Key Vault and Hashicorp Vault
• Appreciation of network security fundamentals - WAF/WAP/Firewalls and ingress/egress patterns
• Experience of Terraform Cloud, Cloud Build or Harness.io (desirable).

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 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.]]>