Public Cloud Azure SRE Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Leeds • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £47,790 - £53,100 per year
About the role
- Managing and resolving incidents
- Improving operational excellence
- Driving automation and reducing toil
- Participating in an out‑of‑hours support rota
- 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
Requirements
- 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
- 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
Benefits
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
Infrastructure-as-CodeCI/CDTerraformJenkinsHarnessAzure DevOpsPythonGroovyPowerShellBash
Soft Skills
problem-solvingstructured thinkingcommunicationaccountabilityadaptabilityenthusiasm for continuous learning
Certifications
Azure certificationGCP certification