Lloyds Banking Group

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: LondonUnited Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £84,051 - £93,390 per year

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About the role

  • Support platforms serving millions of customers and billions of requests each month, ensuring availability, scalability and resiliency.
  • Act as a key technical contributor within PEC, working with SRE guilds to improve cloud deployments, monitoring, CI/CD pipelines and cost efficiency.
  • Explore and adopt new technologies and practices to advance SRE capabilities, including AI‑driven tooling and automation.
  • Apply hands‑on experience running high‑throughput production systems to deliver customer value beyond POCs.
  • Define and implement SLAs, SLOs and SLIs across software and data teams.
  • Improve incident management through better tooling, alerting, runbooks and automated remediation.
  • Act as a subject matter expert in site reliability engineering, contributing to technical discussions and fostering a culture of continuous learning across the lab.

Requirements

  • Hands-on proven experience of software development, testing, monitoring, and operational stability at scale.
  • Production experience with k8s and monitoring tools such as Datadog/Dynatrace/etc.
  • Proven experience and knowledge of automation and CI/CD and best practices.
  • Proven experience of running postmortems, defining SLAs/SLIs/SLOs and participating in support rotas.
  • Coding/scripting experience developed in a commercial/industry setting (python/bash).
  • Database knowledge, streaming and batch operations and designing APIs.
  • Proficient with Kubernetes (ideally microservice architectures using istio service mesh).
  • Extensive experience of Cloud native solutions (ideally Google Cloud).
  • Good understanding of cloud storage, networking, and resource provisioning.
Benefits
  • A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
  • An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance.
  • 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.
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Hard Skills & Tools
site reliability engineeringautomationCI/CDmonitoringkubernetespythonbashdatabase knowledgeAPI designcloud native solutions
Soft Skills
technical contributorcontinuous learningincident managementcollaborationproblem-solving