Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

A major banking institution is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to manage critical services and enhance digital customer experiences. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SRE and DevOps with hands-on experience in cloud technologies and modern engineering practices. This full-time role offers a competitive salary and the flexibility of hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Employee share schemes

Adaptable lifestyle benefits

30 days holiday plus public holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of SRE & DevOps principles.
• Experience managing cloud orchestrations.
• Proficient in Cloud Platforms like GCP and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Deliver against GCP and SRE Public Cloud technology roadmaps.
• Manage operations of critical banking services.
• Enhance resiliency and reliability of customer-facing services.

Skills

SRE & DevOps understanding

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Incident Management software

Dynatrace proficiency

GCP knowledge

Cloud security understanding

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Job Title: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
Salary: £70,929 – £78,810 (outside London); £81,999 - £91,110 (London only)
Locations: Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, or London
Hours: Full-time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity
We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Segments & Propositions (S&P) Platform. This platform delivers a unified digital servicing proposition for personal customers, offering the best digital customer experience to increase engagement and options for self-service. You’ll be part of a collaborative team embedded across five labs, with monthly platform-wide show & tell sessions.

The ideal candidate will feel at ease taking on the role of a fully hands-on DevOps/SRE with a broad understanding of application ecosystems. They will come from a software engineering or scripting skill background and have moved into SRE/DevOps. They will apply their SRE mentality (SLI, SLO & SLA) using Observability, Logging, Monitoring & Alerting (Dynatrace) to lead a small team. The Senior SRE will actively engage in mentoring, coaching, and developing peers across the teams in the lab to advance their technical skills.

Day to day, you will:

• Deliver against GCP and SRE Public Cloud technology roadmaps
• Collaborate with engineering teams to release and evolve enterprise-class solutions
• Manage operations of critical banking services, including 24x7 coverage via on-call rota
• Enhance resiliency and reliability of customer-facing services
• Troubleshoot and diagnose issues with an engineering mindset
• Build tooling to support service reliability and code quality
• Work across multiple labs and signature projects in the Digital space
• Lead Chaos Engineering initiatives to stress test services

What you’ll need:

• Strong understanding of SRE & DevOps, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, or Jenkins
• Proficiency with Incident Management software (ie ServiceNow)
• Proficient in Dynatrace, Splunk, SRE GCP & Cloud Observability
• Demonstrable experience in using orchestrations tools such as Harness
• Knowledge of GCP and Azure cloud platforms
• Experience in identifying toil and design automated solutions to remove it
• Reliability & Performance Management: Design, implement and own the SLOs for critical platform services

And any experience of these would be really useful:

• Can independently design, implement, manage and optimise cloud orchestrations and are proficient in using orchestrations tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Harness
• Experience in programming languages
• Experience of developing for, or administrating Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
• A strong understanding of Cloud security and networking
• Technical architecture and Microservice design principles

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

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

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

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We are committed to making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment processes to ensure that they are accessible to all.