
Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Halifax • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £92,701 - £109,060 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Lead a team of SREs (up to ~15) and create a culture of continuous improvement, learning, and engineering excellence.
- Work closely with application teams during application migrations to the Cloud
- Work closely with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to balance new feature delivery with reliability, performance and system health.
- Use data, observability tooling and SRE principles to detect issues early, improve system performance, and reduce operational toil.
- Lead and mature incident and problem management practices, ensuring strong root‑cause analysis, learning, and reduction of MTTF/MTTR.
- Champion error budgets, SLOs, and reliability‑first thinking across your aligned Cloud Labs.
- Influence platform direction and engineering standards, helping shape how we build resilient cloud services at scale.
Requirements
- Strong cloud engineering background — ideally across GCP and Azure — with experience designing or operating large‑scale, resilient cloud platforms.
- Deep understanding of observability tooling (metrics, logs, traces) and how to drive reliability improvements using data.
- Hands‑on experience of modern SRE practices: SLOs / SLIs Error budgets Reducing toil through automation Production readiness and post‑mortem best practice
- Experience leading engineering teams and fostering an inclusive, high‑performing culture
- Ability to navigate complex stakeholder groups and communicate technical topics in a clear, accessible way.
Benefits
- 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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
cloud engineeringGCPAzureobservability toolingSLOsSLIserror budgetsautomationproduction readinesspost-mortem best practice
Soft Skills
leadershipteam managementcommunicationstakeholder managementinclusive culturehigh-performing cultureproblem-solvingroot-cause analysiscontinuous improvementengineering excellence