Lloyds Banking Group

Lead Cloud Site Reliability Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: HalifaxUnited Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £92,701 - £109,060 per year

Job Level

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