Senior Cloud SRE Lead: Reliability & Observability

Lloyds Banking Group

Manchester

On-site

GBP 90,000 - 130,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Up to 15% employer pension contribute

Annual performance-related bonus

Share plans

Flexible benefits

30 days' holiday + bank holidays

Family leave policies

Wellbeing support

Learning and development opportunities

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Site Reliability Engineer Lead to strengthen reliability, observability and operational excellence across Azure and GCP environments. You will lead a team of SREs, shaping engineering standards and reducing operational complexity, while collaborating with product and platform teams to improve design, operation and continuous improvement of cloud services.

You will champion SRE practices (SLOs/SLIs, error budgets) and drive automation and incident management,

Qualifications

Experience designing, building or operating large-scale cloud platforms (Azure/GCP).
SRE/Platform/Cloud/Production Operations background with hands-on practice.
Strong observability, metrics, logging and distributed tracing knowledge.
Proven incident and problem management leading to reliability improvements.
Experience defining and maturing SLOs, SLIs and error budgets.

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.
Contribute to engineering standards, operational best practices and platform strategy across cloud environments.
Support the ongoing evolution of resilient, scalable and secure cloud platforms.