Senior Site Reliability Engineer

lloyds banking group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability of its digital services. With a focus on both software engineering and operational recovery, the role involves collaborating with teams across various projects in a hybrid work environment. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in SRE, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure. The compensation package includes a competitive salary and a range of employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of SRE principles and practices.
• Experience in programming languages and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of cloud security and networking.

Responsibilities

• Deliver against GCP and SRE Public Cloud technology roadmaps.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to release enterprise-class solutions.
• Manage operations of critical banking services, including on-call responsibilities.
• Enhance reliability of customer-facing services.

Skills

SRE & DevOps understanding

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines experience

Incident Management proficiency

Problem Management leadership

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Jenkins

Dynatrace

GCP

Splunk

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.
• Monitor system health, manage error budgets, and drive improvements in Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
• Incident & Problem Management: Lead incident response and post-mortem analysis. Ensure root cause identification and long-term remediation strategies are implemented.
• Platform Advocacy & Collaboration: Champion SRE principles across Segments & Propositions Lab. Collaborate with Lab Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and application teams to embed reliability into design and delivery.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical oversight across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and automation frameworks. Guide engineers in adopting scalable and resilient solutions.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify and implement improvements in deployment, monitoring, and alerting processes. Drive automation to reduce toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure platform services adhere to internal risk, security, and compliance standards. Support audit and regulatory reporting requirements.

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

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.

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'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. We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We particularly welcome applications from under-represented groups.