Senior Site Reliability Engineer – Private Cloud

Lloyds Banking Group

Senior Site Reliability Engineer enhancing the Private Cloud platform for digital transformation at Lloyds Banking Group. Supporting technologies like VMware, Kubernetes, and observability tools while working in Agile teams.

Posted 6/18/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £72,702 - £80,780 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxOpenShiftPuppetVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support and enhance a wide range of platform technologies, including VMware infrastructure, container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift), databases, and applications.
Use Infrastructure as Code to manage environments and support CI/CD pipelines.
Improve observability using tools such as Dynatrace, ensuring proactive monitoring and alerting.
Lead and contribute to post-mortems to identify and implement long-term fixes.
Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack, including infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and applications.
Work in Agile teams, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners across the organisation.
Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.

Requirements

What you’ll need

At least 5 years experience of DevOps principles, including Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD.
5+ years of experience with container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
Hands-on experience with VMware technologies in a production environment.
Familiarity with observability platforms, such as Dynatrace.
Proven ability to solve across a broad range of platform technologies.
Experience with either Linux or Windows operating systems.
An attitude focused on continuous improvement and reducing manual steps through automation.
And any experience of these would be great
Experience with automation tools and APIs for infrastructure management.
Exposure to configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet).
Leadership or mentoring experience in technical teams.
Certifications in VMware or any major cloud provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS).
Background in system administration or software engineering with a strong interest in learning cloud-native practices.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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

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Hard Skills & Tools

DevOps principlesInfrastructure as CodeCI/CDcontainer platformsorchestrationVMware technologiesobservabilityautomation toolsconfiguration managementsystem administration

Soft Skills

continuous improvementproblem-solvingleadershipmentoringcollaboration

Certifications

VMware certificationAzure certificationGCP certificationAWS certification