Job Description Summary

Lead Infrastructure Engineer based in Manchester. Hybrid working with 35 hours per week. Salary £70,929 – £78,810. End date: Thursday 02 October 2025.

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 group, you will be at the heart of one of the UK\'s biggest financial services technical transformations, maximising the use of shared tools and technology across our 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, and a positive role model with a strong 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.
• Design and implement configuration changes to extend the HCP Terraform service to fit speed of cloud deployments and hybrid cloud management.
• Secure the use of HCP Terraform with policy controls and custom scripts.
• Develop Harness pipelines to automate CI/CD deployment.
• Automate processes, develop reusable components, write automated tests, perform code reviews, and create technical documentation – lead by example.
• Own, lead and drive features and stories via Jira and Jira Align.
• Assess and exploit new features to deliver value to engineering customers.
• Promote and advocate for HCP Terraform and DevOps services across the LBG Engineering community. Advise on best practices for Terraform and IaC.
• Provide specialist support for the run and service aspects of the HCP Terraform Service.
• Lead technical conversations with partners at varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter Experts.
• Collaborate across internal, external, and third-party teams, working closely with other team members.
• Provide leadership, education and mentoring to support junior colleagues and drive upskilling.

What you’ll need

• Experience in infrastructure engineering with a strong focus on Infrastructure as Code principles.
• Extensive experience with IaC using Terraform and other IaC languages.
• Experience building solutions for public cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP) including compute, storage, security, and networking.
• Experience with containerisation and Kubernetes, including deployment using Helm and cloud Kubernetes services (AKS, GKE).
• Experience with enterprise-class automation toolsets are desirable.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools (e.g., Harness, Azure DevOps, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Proficient understanding of CI/CD principles, version control, automated testing, deployment strategies, and IaC.
• Strong experience of DevOps automation principles, processes and toolsets including repositories, scanning, testing tools, and certificate and secrets management.
• Experience with 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.

Who we’re looking for

Someone with a passion for technology and how it can be adopted for colleagues and customers. A genuine curiosity about emerging tech and its application is beneficial. You will work in a highly collaborative way with other specialists and engineers from LBG, suppliers, partner resources and third parties. You are adaptable, able to learn new skills, and comfortable providing recommendations and thought leadership using your own judgment. Innovation is the backbone of this team, with a focus on trying the unproven and pushing our tech forward.

Working for us

We’re evolving and investing in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the needs of our customers. We’re growing with purpose. We welcome applications from under-represented groups and are disability confident. We offer reasonable adjustments to recruitment processes if requested.

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Discounted shopping and lifestyle benefits
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we are driven by a clear purpose: to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues focus 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, while the scale and reach of our Group means you\'ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

Data privacy: We keep your data safe. We will only ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to interview or accepted a verbal offer, at which point background checks will be conducted. We will explain what we need and why.

We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.