End Date

Thursday 16 July 2026

Salary Range

72,702 - 80,780

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Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Google Cloud Engineer

SALARY: 72,702 - 80,780

LOCATION(S): Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above.

Cloud Engineer Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Location: Manchester

Salary: 70,929 - 78.810

At Lloyds Banking Group, were driven by our purpose  Helping Britain Prosper. Its why we exist and how we make decisions. As the world changes around us, were transforming our business and investing in modern, sustainable technology to shape finance as a force for good.

About the Team

Our Cloud Platform team is a wellestablished engineering group at the heart of one of the UKs biggest financialservices transformations. Were modernising the banks nextgeneration cloud platform, partnering with business and product teams to deliver secure, scalable solutions for:

• Analytics
• GenAI / Machine Learning
• Databases
• Application workloads

Our remit is broad: product curation, datawarehousing capabilities, landingzone engineering, automation, and embedding AI into cloud workflows to improve developer experience, quality and efficiency.

About the Role

We're building a cloud platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

This role focuses on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and were particularly interested in people with experience in:

• GCP Analytics, AI, Databases & Serverless products
• Networking, security, IAM & platform engineering
• Terraform
• CI/CD (Harness / GitHub Actions)
• Python
• Git workflows
• Backstage
• PolicyasCode (Open Policy Agent)
• Security tooling (Organisation Policy, Security Health Analytics, Wiz)
• Dynatrace

Knowledge of multiagent AI systems is also desirable.

We're looking for a Cloud Engineer with strong GCP experience, building endtoend infrastructure solutions for engineering teams across the Group. Youll drive automation across deployments and operations, and take part in an outofhours support rota.

About You

Youre passionate about engineering excellence, automation and creating great developer experiences. Youre collaborative, curious and comfortable working across different domains in a fastmoving platform organisation.

Youll work sidebyside with Engineering Leads, Product Owners and partner teams to deliver our roadmap, shape priorities, embed traditional and GenAI tooling, and unblock delivery. Youll also contribute to technical communities and mentor earlycareer engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure, scalable GCP infrastructure foundations, including IAM policy, key management, network patterns (PSC/PSA), and observability for services such as BigQuery, Composer, Vertex AI, AlloyDB, Spanner and Cloud Run
• Build and maintain reusable Terraform modules and automated deployment patterns for analytics, AI/ML, database and serverless products
• Develop CI/CD pipelines using Harness CI and Python to automate delivery and reduce manual effort
• Translate threatmodel and policy requirements into policyascode guardrails (Wiz / Rego / Custom Org Policy / CEL)
• Create and evolve selfservice Golden Paths via Backstage templates, scaffolding, documentation and automation hooks
• Partner with security, risk, architecture and delivery teams to meet regulatedindustry standards while maintaining engineering pace
• Improve operational excellence across monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation and reliability, including participating in OOH support
• Prototype and productionise GenAI and agenticAI automation (e.g., AIassisted deployments, documentation generation, policy reasoning) using tools including Gemini on GCP and Copilot Studio
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and support continuous improvement of workflows, tools and processes

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experience in Platform Engineering with a consistent record of delivering and operating solutions on GCP
• Handson experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Harness or similar
• Understanding of configurationmanagement tools for infrastructure automation and policy enforcement
• Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go or Bash)
• Ability to take ownership of features and products through to successful delivery
• Experience handling cloudservice products through their lifecycle
• Strong written and verbal communication, able to explain technical concepts clearly to varied audiences
• Comfortable working in a fastpaced, dynamic and evolving environment

What Youll Get in Return

Were committed to equal opportunity and building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. Your wellbeing, growth and development matter to us.

Youll receive:

• A performancebased share bonus
• A flexible benefits pot
• A generous pension contribution
• Private health cover
• Up to 30 days annual leave (with the option to purchase more)
• Access to colleague share schemes

If this role sounds like a great match for your skills, wed love to hear from you.

Working With Us

Were committed to creating an inclusive organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.

We want all colleagues to feel they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

If youd like reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.

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 were building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.