Site Reliability Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job description

JOB TITLE: Site Reliability Engineer

SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100

LOCATION(S): Bristol

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 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 an SRE you'll be working with a team of engineers on a suite of automation and gen AI products. You'll 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 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

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.

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 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
• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies