Azure Landing Zone Site Reliability Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group

Azure Landing Zone Site Reliability Engineer leading a team in cloud operations. Driving the tech modernization agenda at Lloyds Banking Group in the UK using Azure Cloud.

Posted 7/16/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £72,702 - £80,780 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in Azure Cloud products and services, with a strong focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles, automation, and problem-solving. Proven leadership capabilities in team management, mentoring, and task coordination within a cloud operations environment.

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Azure Cloud ProductsSite Reliability Engineering (SRE)Infrastructure as CodeCI/CD PipelinesKubernetes Administration

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Hard Skills

PythonGroovyBASHPowerShellTerraformJenkinsCloud SecurityNetworkingAutomationTroubleshooting

Soft Skills

LeadershipMentoringProblem-SolvingLogical ThinkingCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

Azure DevOpsKubernetesPublic Cloud SolutionsCloud Platforms

Certifications & Qualifications

Azure CertificationGoogle Cloud CertificationAmazon Web Services Certification

Industry Keywords

DevOpsToil ReductionObservabilityCloud OperationsProduction Environment

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGroovyJenkinsKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Take a lead role organising and supporting a group of engineers working in our front-line Azure SRE team, collaborating with business platforms across the bank to build, release and evolve modern scalable Public Cloud solutions.
The team cover a wider range of Azure Cloud products as well as support for a number of LBG built services which enable LBG engineers to build on Azure Public Cloud (including some out of hours/on-call duties worked on a rota basis)
Take an SRE approach to this operations role, focussing on availability and reliability whilst always looking at opportunities for better observability, automation, and toil reduction.
Contribute to the wider Public Cloud strategic technology roadmaps

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience and robust technical understand of working with a broad set of Azure cloud products and services
Leadership experience including team leadership, mentoring and task management
DevOps understanding, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps
Ability to quickly understand, update and write code in languages such as Python, Groovy, BASH, PowerShell
An understanding of Cloud security and networking
Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent troubleshooting skills
Demonstrate a passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills
Experience in automating/scripting to remove toil
Certifications in Azure or another cloud platform, including providers like Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services is a plus
Experience of developing for, or administrating Kubernetes clusters in a production environment

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