Senior Cloud SRE & Reliability Engineer | Hybrid

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental le

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen reliability, scalability and security of cloud-hosted services. Based in Edinburgh with hybrid working, you will drive automation and observability while collaborating across engineering, platform and product teams.

You will lead incident response, RCA activities and help set engineering standards, mentoring peers to raise operational excellence across the organisation.

Qualifications

• SRE & Service Engineering experience improving reliability, availability and supportability of production services.
• DevOps expertise with automation, CI/CD and collaborative delivery practices.
• Strong experience with public cloud platforms,especially Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Strong scripting/programming skills (Python/PowerShell/Bash) to automate tasks.
• Experience with IaC and tooling such as Terraform to manage infrastructure.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking for diagnosing incidents and remediations.
• Excellent collaboration and communication to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead the operation, reliability, scalability and performance improvement of cloud-hosted applications and services.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort, improve consistency and strengthen service resilience.
• Partner with engineering, platform and product teams to deliver and continuously improve cloud solutions and security data platforms.
• Lead incident response, problem investigations and root cause analysis, turning learnings into measurable improvements.
• Develop and enhance observability, monitoring and alerting capabilities to provide actionable insight into service health and customer impact.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, patterns and communities of practice across the organisation.

Skills

SRE & Service Engineering

DevOps

Public Cloud (GCP)

Scripting (Python, PowerShell, Bash)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Problem Solving

Collaboration & Communication

Tools

Dynatrace

Kubernetes

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to strengthen reliability, scalability and security of cloud-hosted services. Based in Edinburgh with hybrid working, you will drive automation and observability while collaborating across engineering, platform and product teams.

You will lead incident response, RCA activities and help set engineering standards, mentoring peers to raise operational excellence across the organisation.