Senior Cloud SRE Lead for Azure & GCP Platform

Lloyds Banking Group

Manchester

Hybrid

GBP 93,000 - 109,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

15% employer pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share plans

Flexible benefits that can be tailored

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Generous family leave policies

Wellbeing support and initiatives

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Lead Site Reliability Engineer to guide a high-performing team across Azure and Google Cloud Platform. Based in Manchester with hybrid working, you’ll shape reliability practices, incident response and platform improvements.

You’ll partner with product and platform teams to balance resilience, feature delivery and operational excellence, driving observability, automation and robust incident management across our cloud environments.

Qualifications

Proven experience leading SRE/Platform Engineering teams.
Strong observability, monitoring and incident management skills.
Experience with Azure and GCP cloud platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead and develop a team of Site Reliability Engineers, creating an inclusive environment that supports learning, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Partner with Product Owners, Engineering Leads and platform teams to balance reliability, operational resilience and feature delivery.
Use observability data, platform metrics and service insights to identify improvement opportunities and reduce operational risk.
Lead incident and problem management activities, promoting effective root cause analysis and continuous service improvement.
Champion Site Reliability Engineering practices including Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and error budgets.
Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual effort and improve platform reliability.