Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Leeds Building Society; Leeds; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading building society in the UK seeks a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to enhance the reliability and performance of its core banking services operating on Azure. This role involves proactive monitoring and incident response within a large-scale cloud environment. Ideal candidates will have strong experience in Azure, DevOps, and production support, ensuring operational excellence across services. The position offers hybrid working and a supportive culture focused on professional development.

Benefits

Annual colleague bonus of up to 12%

Matched pension contributions of up to 10%

26 days holiday plus bank holidays

Colleague Mortgage and Saver products

Electric vehicle scheme

2 days' volunteering per year

Qualifications

• Experience of supporting Azure PaaS and IaaS services.
• A technical background in Azure, DevOps and Production Support.
• Experience of monitoring and observability.
• Experience with DevOps tooling especially Terraform.
• Ideally currently performing a similar SRE or Production Support role.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve Core Banking services.
• Ensure reliability and performance of Core systems.
• Implement proactive monitoring and incident response.

Skills

Azure PaaS and IaaS support

DevOps knowledge

Monitoring and observability

DevOps tooling (Terraform)

Experience in SRE or Production Support

Job description

Overview

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How you'll help us live our purpose: We've been helping our members save for their future and buy a home of their own since 1875. By joining us, you'll play a big role in helping us to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation. It's a purpose that drives everything we do and one we're proud of. And you can play your part too as our Senior Site Reliability Engineer for Core Banking. This is a unique opportunity to be there from the beginning to be part of a team supporting our live operational environment for our cloud native Core banking platform which will set us up for success on our core replacement programme, the largest transformation in our 150 year history.

How you'll make a difference

We are currently looking to recruit a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who is passionate about helping to provide operational excellence across our core banking cloud platforms at enterprise scale. Your expertise will help maintain and improve our Core Banking services. In this pivotal role, you'll be responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of our Core systems through proactive monitoring, alerting, self-healing capabilities, and incident response. You'll work within a complex Azure-based environment, applying your technical expertise to support and evolve our production landscape.

What you'll bring to the role

• Experience of supporting Azure PaaS and IaaS services.
• A technical background in Azure, DevOps and Production Support.
• Experience of monitoring and observability.
• Experience with DevOps tooling especially Terraform
• Ideally currently performing a similar SRE or Production Support role.

And in return, you'll get the best from us

• An annual colleague bonus of up to 12%
• Hybrid working with 60% of your time at home
• Matched pension contributions of up to 10%
• 26 days holiday, plus bank holidays and holiday purchase scheme of up to 5 days each year
• Colleague Mortgage and Saver products
• Electric vehicle scheme
• 2 days' volunteering per year

We'll give you a place to belong with the support to learn, develop and shape a meaningful career.

Why choose Leeds Building Society?

Our business is centred around our people. Our colleagues are at the heart of everything we do, as shown by our Inclusive Employers Gold accreditation in 2023 and 2025. We're committed to equal opportunities regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity.

You'll be joining a truly purpose-focused culture which helped us win the Leading with Purpose award at the 2023 Business Culture Awards. This recognises the progress we're making to embed our purpose with our colleagues, and the actions we've taken to put home ownership within reach of more people, generation after generation.

Closing Date: 24th October 2025

Why wait? Apply now

We'd love to hear from you. But don't wait around - we may close the advert early and we'd hate for you to miss out.

Leeds Building Society is devoted to creating a culture and workplace that is representative of the communities we serve. If you'd like to work with us but are unsure if you meet the full criteria for a role, please contact the recruiter as we'd like to find out more about the skills and experience that you could bring to the Society. We're committed to supporting you to be at your best and if you'd like to discuss any reasonable adjustments, please reach out to us on [e-mail]

Hybrid Working model and flexible working patterns considered.