Site Reliability Engineer

IT WORLD LIMITED; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is hiring a Site Reliability Engineer for the Public Cloud in a hybrid role spanning Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Halifax or Edinburgh. You will help build and run compliant, secure data platforms, with a strong focus on automation, observability, and operational excellence.

You will work within a multidisciplinary team to improve platform reliability, reduce toil, and ensure services meet performance and security expectations, blending software engineering with database

Qualifications

• Experience delivering reliable, scalable data platforms.
• Strong SQL skills with query optimisation and performance tuning.
• Familiar with security data platforms and observability tooling.

Responsibilities

• Deliver reliability improvements through automation and engineering best practices.
• Support CI/CD pipeline development and deployment automation.
• Monitor and optimise enterprise databases including Oracle, DB2, SAP HANA, SQL Server.
• Analyse performance bottlenecks and implement resilience improvements.
• Contribute to security monitoring and data platform governance.

Skills

Automation

Observability

Cloud infrastructure

SRE principles

SQL skills

Tools

Oracle Database

IBM DB2

SAP HANA

Microsoft SQL Server

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Elasticsearch

MongoDB

Cassandra

BigQuery

Google Cloud SQL

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer – Public cloud

Security Data & AI Lab

Location: Leeds/Manchester/ Bristol/ Halifax/ Edinburgh(Hybrid 3-4 days /week)

ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY

The Security Data & AI Lab is transforming cyber security through data, engineering and artificial intelligence. Our teams build and operate the platforms, services and capabilities that enable the Group to monitor security compliance, reduce risk and improve operational resilience.

We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to help develop, operate and continuously improve critical compliance monitoring and security data platforms. You'll combine software engineering, cloud infrastructure, database management and operational excellence to ensure services remain secure, resilient, performant and available.

Working within a multidisciplinary engineering team, you'll apply Site Reliability Engineering principles to reduce operational toil, improve observability, automate repetitive activities and enhance platform reliability across the Security Data & AI Lab estate. The role aligns to LBG Grade D engineering expectations, combining hands-on technical delivery with a strong focus on operational excellence, continuous improvement and customer outcomes.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Deliver reliability improvements through automation, observability and engineering best practices.
• Support CI/CD pipeline development and deployment automation activities.
• Experience supporting enterprise database technologies including:
• Oracle Database
• IBM DB2
• SAP HANA
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Strong SQL skills including query optimisation, troubleshooting and performance tuning.
• Experience monitoring database health, utilisation, availability and performance.
• Understanding of backup, recovery, replication and disaster recovery processes.
• Experience identifying and resolving database, application and infrastructure performance bottlenecks.
• Knowledge of database security controls, auditing and operational governance.
• Understanding of large-scale operational data platforms and mission-critical services.

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Experience supporting cyber security, compliance monitoring or risk management platforms.
• Knowledge of Database Activity Monitoring (DAM) technologies.
• Experience working with security telemetry and operational analytics platforms.
• Experience supporting data engineering, analytics or AI-enabled platforms.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Cloud SQL or BigQuery.
• Experience working with NoSQL technologies such as Elasticsearch, MongoDB or Cassandra.
• Understanding of AI, machine learning or advanced analytics environments.
• Experience working within financial services or another highly regulated industry.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Reliable and resilient compliance monitoring services that meet operational expectations.
• Reduced operational toil through effective automation and engineering improvements.
• Improved observability and operational insight across security platforms.
• Strong database reliability, performance and resilience across critical services.
• Secure, scalable and supportable solutions that help protect Banking Group and its customers.