Lead Infrastructure Engineer

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**End Date**Thursday 02 October 2025**Salary Range**£70,929 - £78,810**Flexible Working Options**Hybrid Working, Job Share**Job Description Summary**.**Job Description****JOB TITLE:** Lead Infrastructure Engineer**SALARY:** £70,929 – £78,810**LOCATION:** Manchester**HOURS:** Full-time - 35 hours per week**WORKING PATTERN:** Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at leasttwo days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.**ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY:** The Engineering Platform team is on a mission to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group, a single platform consumed by every engineer and platform across the entire group, you'll be at the heart of one of the UK's biggest financial service technical transformations maximising the use of shared tools and technology across our entire organisation.This is an extraordinary opportunity to shape how we evolve across the group!Due to the nature of this work, we are looking for tenacious, motivated, and innovative hands-on Senior Infrastructure/Devops Engineers with a real passion for technology and a commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions, a positive role model with an unstoppable desire to deliver the best possible solution for all.**WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:*** Contribute to the design and implementation of the HCP Terraform including deployment of hosted components on Kubernetes and other host platforms.* Configuration design & change to continue extending the HCP Terraform service to fit both the pace of change in public cloud deployments and extend into management of hybrid cloud and other management systems.* Securing the use of HCP Terraform with hands of development of Policy controls and custom control scripts.* Development of Harness Pipeline to automate CI/CD deployment* Automation of processes developing reusable components, writing automated test scripts, performing code reviews, and creating technical documentation – leading by example.* Own, lead and drive features and stories via Jira and Jira Align framework.* Assess and exploit new features to deliver business value to our engineering customer base.* Promote and advocate for HCP Terraform and Devops services across the LBG Engineering community. Consult on best practice usage of Terraform and IaC* Specialist support for the run and service aspects of the HCP Terraform Service* Be proficient in leading technical conversations with partners of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts.* Collaborate across internal, external, and third-party teams, working closely with the other members of the team.* Provide leadership, education and mentoring to support junior colleagues and different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling.**WHAT YOU’LL NEED:*** Experience in infrastructure engineering, with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code principles* Extensive experience building solutions following Infrastructure as Code standard methodologies employing Terraform and other IaC languages.* Firsthand experience building solutions for the public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) including compute, storage, security, and networking.* Experience with containerisation & Kubernetes, including deployment using Helm and cloud Kubernetes service (AKS, GKE)* Experience at management of enterprise class Automation toolsets desirable* Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).* Proficient understanding of CI/CD principles, including version control, automated testing, deployment strategies, and infrastructure as code.* Strong experience of Devops automation principles, processes and toolsets Including repositories, scanning, testing tools. Certificate and secrets management* Extensive experience of at least one high-level programming language, preferably Python or Go.* Excellent communication and collaboration skills to engage with stakeholders across the organisation.* Strong leadership and mentoring abilities, with a passion for sharing knowledge and guiding team members.Someone with a passion for technology and how it can be adopted and used for our colleagues and customers! A genuine curiosity about emerging tech and its application would be beneficial.You will work in a highly collaborative way, working with other specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers, partner resources and third parties.You're adaptable, able to use & learn new skills & knowledge in varying circumstances and are comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership using your own judgment.Innovation is at the backbone of this team, with a focus on trying the unproven and pushing our tech forward, to succeed in this role you would need to be tenacious and resilient.**ABOUT WORKING FOR 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.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**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.**With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers.Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future. #J-18808-Ljbffr
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Location:
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£125,000 - £150,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT & Technology

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