Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 82,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

30 days holiday

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in the UK is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to improve the reliability, scalability and operational excellence of cloud-hosted services. You will lead the operation of cloud-hosted applications and drive automation to reduce manual effort.

You will partner with engineering, platform and product teams to deliver secure cloud solutions, lead incident response and develop observability and monitoring.

Qualifications

• SRE and service engineering experience to improve reliability of production services.
• DevOps strong automation and CI/CD practices across teams.
• Experience with public cloud platforms, especially GCP, in production or engineering.
• Scripting in Python, PowerShell or Bash to automate tasks and reliability.
• IaC and tooling knowledge with Terraform and related platforms.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking in complex incidents.
• Collaborative communication to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead operation, reliability, scalability and performance of cloud apps.
• Drive automation to reduce manual effort and increase resilience.
• Partner with engineering, platform and product teams on cloud solutions.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis with measurable improvements.
• Develop observability, monitoring and alerting for service health.
• Mentor engineers and raise engineering standards across the organisation.

Skills

SRE Skills

DevOps

GCP

Python

PowerShell

Bash

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub

Dynatrace

Jira

Confluence

Observability

Critical Thinking

Collaboration

Tools

Dynatrace

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub

Jira

Confluence

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SALARY: £72,702 - £82,000

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

We’re transforming how data and security are engineered across Lloyds Banking Group, using data, automation and modern architectures to protect our customers at scale. Within the Chief Security Office, the Security Data & AI Lab is building intelligent, AI-driven security capabilities that detect, disrupt and deter threats at pace and scale!

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be an experienced engineering practitioner responsible for improving the reliability, scalability and operational excellence of cloud-hosted services!

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll:

• 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 activities, ensuring learning is converted into measurable improvements.

• Develop and enhance observability, monitoring and alerting capabilities that provide actionable insight into service health and customer impact.

• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, patterns and communities of practice across the organisation.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and technology to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and be part of it too.

What you’ll need

We’re looking for experienced engineers who are passionate about reliability engineering, cloud technologies and operational excellence.

• SRE & Service Engineering skills, with significant experience improving the reliability, availability and supportability of production services. The SBO Skills Library identifies SRE & Service Engineering as a core engineering capability.

• DevOps expertise, including automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery and collaborative software delivery practices. DevOps is identified as a core engineering skill within the enterprise skills taxonomy.

• Strong experience working with public cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), within operational or engineering environments.

• Strong scripting or programming capability using languages such as Python, PowerShell or Bash to automate operational activities and improve reliability outcomes.

• Experience implementing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code solutions and engineering platforms using tools such as Terraform.

• Problem Solving and Critical Thinking skills, with experience diagnosing complex production incidents and driving effective remediation. These are recognised enterprise-wide skills in the SBO Skills Library.

• Collaboration and Impactful Communication skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships and explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. These are recognised enterprise-wide skills in the SBO Skills Library.

And any experience of this would be really useful

• Experience with Google SecOps.

• Experience working in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering or DevOps roles supporting complex production environments.

• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace.

• Experience using Terraform, GitHub, Kubernetes or similar engineering tooling.

• Experience working with Jira and Confluence within Agile delivery teams.

• Professional certifications in GCP or comparable cloud technologies.

• Experience coaching engineers, developing reusable engineering patterns and improving operational standards.

• Interest / passion in AI and the application of agentic solutions would be advantageous. This lab is at the forefront of agentic use cases and AI security, and whilst professional experience may be limited, personal interest & development would be great.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We’re committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to help remove barriers and create an inclusive experience for everyone.

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

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.