Site Reliability Engineer

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Edinburgh based role (please only apply if able to work in this location at least 2 days every fortnight.

Salary & Benefits: £52,912 - £69,447 base salary, plus annual personal bonus, up to 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices and regular home working.

Our mission

Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. We're on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help do it. Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.

Working within one of our newly formed Platform teams, Site Reliability Engineers will use their strong DevOps/SRE knowledge and development skills to build resilience and observability into our Pension products. Working in one of our product teams made up of Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Quality Engineers, Software Engineers and SREs, engineers will have the opportunity to influence design, development and application support decisions as well as apply best practices to drive continuous improvement.

Our tech stack today includes:

React

Node

Docker

Kubernetes

Jenkins

Google Cloud

Dynatrace

Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus

Job Description

The Workplace Pensions Platform is rapidly growing its SRE team to support the growth and optimisation of our digital applications.

About the role:

The digital teams in our Pensions Platform are passionate about improving support to our customers throughout their financial lives, with clear, straightforward customer journeys, helping them to make the right decisions on their long-term Saving, Investment & Retirement needs.

As a Site Reliability Engineer within our Keep Me On Track lab you'll be joining us at an exciting time as we transform the services we offer our Corporate Pensions customers. As one of the early joiners in the SRE area you'll help craft our strategy and drive high reliability into our systems, by mentoring the engineers in our feature teams to produce efficient code with a service engineering focus.

What's needed to be considered for this job?

Essential criteria:

Previous experience working in a Site Reliability Engineer capacity or other similar role.

Demonstrable experience applying SRI and DevOps principles in a similar environment.

Ability to read and understand code in a modern programming language and not be afraid of writing a few lines yourself.

Understand and able to communicate complex technical problems to non-technical partners at different levels within the organisation.

Experience of common software engineering methodologies such as Agile, Scrum.

Experience of modern software engineering tooling such as GitHub, Confluence, JIRA.

Ability to identify reliability risks and opportunities for automation.

Understanding of multi-tier system architectures and ability to debug and identify points of failure.

Proactive and curious approach to engineering problems.

Desirable skills & experience:

Experience of applying SRE principles such as:

Service Level Management (SLIs, SLOs and SLAs)

Blameless Post Mortems

TOIL Reduction via Automation

Capacity and Cost Planning

Chaos Engineering

Observability

Production Readiness Reviews

Proficient container based skills such as Docker and Kubernetes

Experience in a team supporting a 24x7 application (pager duty or on-call)

Training and certifications in Google Cloud - preferably Google Cloud Associate Engineer

Experience of observability tooling (such as Dynatrace, Kibana, Elastic, Splunk)

So what can we offer you in return?

Whatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development and a career that's enriching and full of opportunity. You'll also receive a package that includes:

We offer exceptional packages including: private medical insurance, discretionary bonus, various share plans, a pension where we contribute up to 15%. 30 days holiday, plus 9 bank holidays and cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits, or simply take the cash.

Our flexible work options mean your work/life balance can be preserved while fully paid training and certification programmes ensure your skills remain fresh.

We're an equal opportunities employer and are delighted to receive applications from people of all backgrounds to join our diverse team. If you have particular needs regarding working patterns, childcare, or anything else we can do to accommodate you, please don't shy away from talking to us - we're here to support you and develop your career and your happiness is of the utmost importance to us.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Our continued dedication to helping Britain recover means that as a colleague you can make a difference to customers, businesses and communities.

Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We're passionate about creating a values-led culture, and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all have the chance to create a real difference, together.

Are you interested in joining us? Apply today, we'd love to hear from you...

Together we'll make it possible...