Public Cloud Azure SRE Engineer
at Lloyds Banking Group
Posted 20 days ago
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- Compensation
- £47,790 – £53,100 GBP
- City
- Leeds
- Country
- United Kingdom
Currency: £ (GBP)
Site Reliability Engineer focused on Microsoft Azure within Lloyds Banking Group's Cloud Platform team, helping to modernise and operate secure, resilient cloud services. You will manage incidents, drive operational excellence, and automate through Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD to reduce toil. The role requires strong Azure experience (AKS, Key Vault, Storage, SQL, etc.), scripting and Terraform skills, and applying SRE principles including chaos engineering. Hybrid role based in Leeds supporting a major cloud and data transformation.
End Date
Tuesday 17 February 2026Salary Range
£47,790 - £53,100We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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.Job Description
Site Reliability Engineer – Azure (Public Cloud Platform)
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Salary: £47,790-£53,100
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by our purpose – Helping Britain Prosper. It shapes our decisions, our ambitions and how we show up every day.
The world is changing rapidly, and so are we. It’s an exciting time to join us as we modernise our technology platforms and transform how we use cloud to deliver more secure, resilient, and innovative services for our customers.
About the Team
Our Cloud Platform team is a well‑established, solution‑focused engineering group driving one of the UK’s largest financial‑services transformations. We're modernising the bank’s next‑generation technical platform and partnering with product teams across the organisation to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions for:
- Analytics
- GenAI/ML
- Databases
- Storage
- Serverless HPC
- Application workloads
Our remit is broad: from product curation and data‑platform capabilities to automation, quality assurance, and embedding AI into our engineering flows. Everything we build aims to empower teams and improve the developer experience.
About the Role
We’re building a cloud platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers – and modern, easy and environmentally conscious for developers.
This role focuses on Microsoft Azure, and we’re particularly interested in people with experience in any of the following:
- Azure: AKS, Azure Policy, Batch, Key Vault, SQL, Storage, API Management
- Engineering fundamentals: Networking, Security, IAM, Platform Engineering
- Tooling: Terraform, CI/CD (Harness or GitHub Actions), PowerShell, AZ CLI, Git workflows, Backstage, Dynatrace
We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with strong Azure experience. Your time will be split between:
- Managing and resolving incidents
- Improving operational excellence
- Driving automation and reducing toil
- Participating in an out‑of‑hours support rota
About You
You’ll collaborate with Engineering Leads and Product Owners to shape and deliver our platform roadmap. You’ll contribute to planning, prioritising, automation, and continuous improvement. You’ll work across internal teams and technical communities, sharing knowledge, developing reusable capabilities, and supporting early‑career engineers through mentoring.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply hands‑on engineering to maintain our Infrastructure‑as‑Code and CI/CD‑based products and services
- Improve reliability and customer experience by enhancing automation and reducing manual effort
- Drive operational excellence across monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, cost optimisation and reliability
- Take accountability for the health of production and non‑production environments
- Investigate and resolve service issues, implementing fixes and improvements through code
- Contribute to Agile ceremonies and support continuous learning within the team
- Provide technical expertise to help assess and manage risk
- Communicate incident updates clearly and regularly with customers and stakeholders
- Apply SRE principles, including chaos engineering where appropriate, to improve resilience
Essential Skills & Experience
- Strong DevOps experience, with IaC and CI/CD pipelines (Terraform, Jenkins, Harness, or Azure DevOps)
- Experience working with a broad range of public‑cloud technologies
- Ability to write and maintain scripts (Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Bash)
- Solid understanding of cloud security principles
- Strong problem‑solving capability and structured thinking
- Experience with monitoring tools and techniques
Desirable Skills
- Experience using SDKs and APIs for automation
- Certifications in Azure or another cloud provider (e.g., GCP)
- Transferable experience from sysadmin, software engineering or similar technical fields
- Technology‑agnostic mindset, adaptable in approach
- Enthusiasm for continuous learning and cloud best‑practice
What You’ll Get in Return
We’re committed to equal opportunity and building a workforce that reflects the communities we serve. We focus on inclusion every day so colleagues can be themselves, feel they belong and thrive.
Alongside a supportive team culture, you’ll receive:
- A performance‑based share bonus
- A flexible benefits allowance
- A generous pension contribution
- Private health cover
- Up to 30 days annual leave (plus the ability to purchase more)
- Access to colleague share schemes
If you have the skills we’re looking for and want to be part of a major cloud and data transformation, we’d love to hear from you.
Working With Us
We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms.
If you would like us to make reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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.
