Senior Site Reliability Engineer

End Date

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Salary Range

£70,929 - £78,810

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

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £ 78,810

LOCATION(S): Bristol

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 our Bristol office.

About this opportunity

Our SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team within the Analytics & AI platform are looking for an experienced and passionate Engineer with strong hands-on development experience.

As a Senior SRE you’ll be leading a team of engineers – working on a suite of automation and gen AI products. You will run and maintain a set of applications and services on a combination of Private and Public Clouds that will enable the business to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank’s vision for 2025 and beyond!

What you’ll do 

• Play a role in supporting a multi-application, multi-platform team
• 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

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 practitioner in SRE principles (SLI, SLO & SLA) using Observability, Logging, Monitoring & Alerting
• Experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines using tools such as Terraform, Jenkins and Harness
• Can independently design, implement, manage and optimise cloud deployments, proficient in using orchestrations tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Harness
• 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
• Knowledge of GCP and Azure cloud platforms
• Experience in identifying toil and building automated solutions to remove it
• A strong understanding of 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 Azure or another cloud platform, such as GCP or AWS
• Experience working in an SRE role or you may currently be working in a software engineering role and would like to explore a move into SRE and DevOps

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’re committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you’d like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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

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.