Senior Software Engineer – DevOps/SRE Focus

lloyds banking group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in Edinburgh seeks a Site Reliability Engineer to manage and enhance reliability across digital services. You'll work in a diverse team, focusing on solving issues, automating processes, and ensuring service stability. The ideal candidate has experience in SRE principles, cloud deployment, and DevOps practices. This role offers a competitive salary and a hybrid working model, along with comprehensive benefits including a generous pension and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of SRE principles and their implementation.
• Able to design and manage cloud deployments independently.
• Experience in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Investigate and remediate service issues to improve performance.
• Lead post-incident reviews and drive problem resolution.
• Create monitoring solutions for proactive issue detection.

Skills

SRE principles

Cloud deployments management

DevOps understanding

Programming (Java, Python, etc.)

Kubernetes

Automation solutions

GCP products (or AWS/Azure)

Cloud monitoring tools

Tools

Terraform

Jenkins

GitHub

Dynatrace

Job description

End Date

Thursday 18 December 2025

Salary Range

£70,929 - £106,394

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810
LOCATION: Edinburgh
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.

Job Description

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in the Digital Channel Servicing Lab is looking for an experienced engineer with strong development skills and a focus on DevOps/SRE practices.

As a senior engineer, you’ll work in a multi-disciplinary team that supports the core of the Scottish Widows digital estate. Your role will help improve the speed and reliability of change across our engineering teams, while ensuring services are stable and scalable for customers.

This role may suit a backend or full-stack engineer looking to reduce engineering toil, or someone with a DevOps/SRE background seeking a new challenge.

What you’ll do

• Investigate, fix and remediate service issues to improve the performance and the reliability of our diverse application estate.
• Contribute to and/or lead post incident reviews and drive problem resolution to prevent recurrence.
• Identify and eliminate toil through automation with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Create pro-active monitoring and observability solutions to help us see issues before our customers do.
• Define and measure Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators.
• Lead initiatives within the team, and help mentor more junior colleagues.

What you’ll need

• Strong knowledge of SRE principles (SLI, SLO & SLA) and how these can be implemented in practice.
• Can independently design, implement, manage and optimise cloud deployments, proficient in using orchestrations tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Harness.
• Strong DevOps understanding , including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform, Jenkins, Harness, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps.
• Confident programming and troubleshooting issues in at least one of the following languages: Java, Groovy, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PowerShell or Bash/Shell.
• Experience of developing for, or administrating, Kubernetes.
• Experience in identifying toil and building automated solutions to remove it.
• Experience working with a broad set of GCP products (or extensive experience with another Public Cloud platform, such as Azure or AWS) and Cloud security and networking.
• Experience in Cloud monitoring tools , preferably Dynatrace.

It would be great if you also had

• Experience in the banking and finance industry.
• Used Jira, Confluence and understood Agile working practices.
• Certifications in GCP or another cloud platform, such as Azure or AWS.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

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 were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

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 to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

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'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

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.