Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Specific activities which you'll be responsible for include things like.

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on GKE/AKS providing technical decision making and mentoring


• Streamlining of operational processes through automation and systems thinking


• Supplying technical leadership during service outages to recover services through incident and problem management


• Leading and contributing to blameless post-mortems for serious incidents


• Improving and embedding new SRE practices to improve levels of service


• Management of DevOps tooling services through the service lifecycle including risk management and compliance


• Understanding Engineering Teams challenges and helping them deliver value through consultancy and the implementation of robust DevOps solutions


• Creating sustainable change and build capabilities
  
  Experience as a SRE, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer or in a similar software or cloud role


• Strong critical thinking skills, leading live support, incident management and resolution


• Technical leadership experience


• Strong understanding of SRE concepts and principles


• Experience of CI/CD across various tooling and a good understanding of DevOps


• Excellent analytical skills and able to work methodically and diligently


• Programming and scripting experience


• Displaying excellent interpersonal and communication skills


• A passion for service, ensuring our colleagues and customers receive the most reliable service possible


Any experience of these would be really useful

• Cloud Platforms - GCP/OpenShift/Azure


• Containerisation - Kubernetes/Docker/Podman/Buildah


• CI/CD - Jenkins/Tekton/GitHub Actions/Harness/ArgoCD


• Monitoring - Dynatrace


• Experience administering - Nexus RM / Nexus Firewall / Nexus Lifecycle /SonarQube


• Infrastructure as Code e.g. Chef, Terraform, Ansible


• Linux Administration


• ITIL or Service management experience


• Formal software development experience


• Agile work practices


• Application Lifecycle Management


• Software Delivery Lifecycle
  
  The Engineering Platform team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're passionate about building teams that are energised, collaborative and inspired by finding the best solutions for our customers. We want you to be an important part of that team as we enable and support the use of key Change and DevOps tooling and aim to deliver the highest quality customer driven solutions. We can offer work that will stimulate your mind and where you'll have the influence to deliver solutions that you can feel proud of., Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.


At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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


• Up to 30 days holiday, with bank holidays on top


• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.