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JOB TITLE: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Public Cloud)

SALARY: £72,702 – £80,780

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

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

About this opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're all driven by our purpose, to Help Britain Prosper. It's why we exist - it's our reason to get out of bed in the morning. The choices we make, our success and our future really matter.

But the world is changing, fast. And we're changing too. It's never been a more exciting time to join us as we transform our business to shape finance as a force for good.  We're modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

We're looking for a Google or Azure Site Reliability Engineer to join our Public Cloud Platform. You’ll have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable us to become the biggest Fintech in the UK.

What you’ll do 

• Be hands-on engineering, maintaining our Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline-based product and services by responding to change, implementing enhancements & improving reliability and customer experience

• Observing, investigating & fixing service issues, with an engineering attitude – resolving via code changes and implementing improvements to prevent repeat issues

• Implementing further automation and reducing toil, by utilising existing Cloud tooling or implementing new technologies

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What you’ll need

• Strong DevOps understanding, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps

• Ability to quickly understand, update and write code in languages such as Python, Groovy, BASH, PowerShell

• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and creating modular, easy to maintain code

• A strong understanding of Cloud security, networking and APIs

• Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent troubleshooting skills

• Hands-on with Observability Tooling (Observability as Code and SLO-based Dynatrace Monitoring)

• Strong understanding and demonstrable use of source control practice and collaborative working as part of an engineering team

• Experience of developing and administrating Kubernetes clusters in a production environment

• Strong knowledge of incident management and issue resolution

It would be great if you also had

• Certifications and experience working with Google products

• Candidates with direct experience in cloud engineering, with understanding and demonstrable experience of SRE Principles

• Strong Linux background, including working with filesystems and processes

• Experience building fault-tolerant systems and strong DR policies.

About working for us

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

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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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

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.