Platform Site Relaibility Engineer

at  Lloyds Banking Group

End Date
Monday 12 August 2024
Salary Range
£45,954 - £51,060
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Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Platform Site Reliability Engineer

SALARY: £45,954 - £51,060

LOCATION(S): Leeds, Halifax, Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above.
About this opportunity
The Cloud Platform team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK’s biggest financial service transformations. We’re looking for a Platform SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) to join our Public Cloud SRE team within the Cloud Platform.
As a Cloud SRE you’ll be an active member of a cloud-focused team of engineers working on the front-line support for the banks GCP and Azure (depending on your skills and experience) Public Cloud platforms.

Key responsibilities:

• Maintain, support & improve our Public Cloud platforms using SRE principles including some 24x7 standby requirements.
• Triage and complete Service requests.
• Investigate, fix and remove service issues with an engineering mentality.
• Implement further automation and reduce toil, utilising new & existing Cloud products.
• Contribute to a backlog of Operational Service improvements.
• Work closely with other SRE colleagues and product teams across different locations to build a tight cohesive operational unit.

What you’ll need:

• Good understanding of GCP and/or Azure services.
• To be experienced at solving problems and troubleshooting, fixing and resolving issues.
• Experience working with a broad set of Public Cloud technologies and services.
• Demonstrate a passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills.
• Experience in working within an operations team or front-line support.

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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. 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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, 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.
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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

• Maintain, support & improve our Public Cloud platforms using SRE principles including some 24x7 standby requirements.
• Triage and complete Service requests.
• Investigate, fix and remove service issues with an engineering mentality.
• Implement further automation and reduce toil, utilising new & existing Cloud products.
• Contribute to a backlog of Operational Service improvements.
• Work closely with other SRE colleagues and product teams across different locations to build a tight cohesive operational unit