Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Financial Wellbeing

Lloyds Banking Group

England

On-site

GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies

Job summary

A leading banking organization in the UK is looking for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join its Financial Wellbeing Platform. The successful candidate will lead the transition to cloud infrastructure and improve observability across systems while mentoring engineers. Required skills include experience in cloud environments, scripting, and an understanding of SRE principles. A generous benefits package is available, including up to 30 days of holiday and a pension contribution of 15%.

Qualifications

Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer.
Understanding of SRE principles including SLIs and SLOs.
Strong scripting and infrastructure-as-code skills.

Responsibilities

Create documentation for the SRE function establishment.
Lead the transition to cloud infrastructure.
Identify and eliminate toil through automation.

Skills

Site Reliability Engineering

Cloud environments (GCP or AWS)

Scripting skills (Terraform, GitHub)

Agile methodologies

Incident response

Collaboration skills

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

Jira

Job description

Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Financial Wellbeing

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Overview

Join our Financial Wellbeing Platform as its first Site Reliability Engineer and apply your expertise of the full software development lifecycle that benefit customers in financial difficulty.

The Recoveries & Application Management Lab Team within the Financial Wellbeing Platform work across the platform to provide specialised skills and services that allow them to deliver services to our customers. The Recoveries & Application Management Lab are building new systems and solutions. The role offers the chance for someone to engage and share their experience, serving as a mentor in the team\'s decision-making processes related to site reliability that are effective and efficient.

Responsibilities

Create documentation that details the establishment of the SRE function within the platform, supported by procedures that outline the guidelines to be followed through the incorporation of existing documentation.
Provide a framework in which to operate the cloud systems under.
Lead the transition to cloud infrastructure and improve observability across systems.
Identify and eliminate toil through automation.
Manage incidents and post-mortems to improve service reliability.
Mentor engineers and support team development.
Collaborate with Product Owners to balance operational and development priorities.
Balance the demands of the business with stability and scalability requirements to reach a successful and scalable outcome.

What you'll need / Qualifications

Proven experience as a Site Reliability Engineer in cloud environments (GCP or AWS).
Understanding of SRE principles including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and toil reduction.
Strong scripting and infrastructure-as-code (IaaC) skills (Terraform, Harness, GitHub).
Demonstrable experience in the Agile ways of working that focuses on delivering customer value and applying the Agile mindset; familiarity with tools like Jira.
Ability to lead incident response and drive service improvements.
Strong collaboration and mentoring skills.
Nice-to-have: Azure cloud environment experience, containerisation and orchestration tools (Docker, Jenkins, GitHub, Terraform), secure programming practices, secure file transfer protocols, risk remediation, and audit actions.

About working for us

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: