Lead SRE Engineer

Bristol
1 month ago
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Salary Range

£86,964 - £102,310

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working

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Job Description

ROLE: SRE Engineer

SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400 per annum

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office. 

 

About this opportunity...

Our Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for an experienced and passionate Engineer with strong hands-on development experience. As a Cloud SRE you’ll be an active and leading member of a cloud-focused team of engineers – working on one of the Group’s flagship projects to run and maintain a set of products and services on the Google Cloud Platform that will enable the business to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank’s vision for 2023 and beyond!

 

Specific activities might include:

Working with service teams to directly influence and drive the adoption of SRE best practices and ways of working within our microservices;

Collaborating with infrastructure engineers to ensure resilience and scalability across the platform;

Observing, investigating & fixing service issues, with an engineering mentality – resolving via code changes and implementing improvements to prevent repeat issues.

Implementing further automation and reducing toil, by utilising existing Cloud tooling or implementing new technologies

The successful candidate will work across multiple labs and signature projects in the Digital space.

 

About us…

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

 

What you’ll need…

We like our teams to be as diverse as the customers and communities we serve and are really looking for someone passionate about data, ambitious and has a good problem-solving mindset. On your CV, we need to see the following to consider you for interview:

 

Background…

Ideally, you’ll come from a software engineering or telemetry background and have now moved into an SRE role.  

 

Technical Skills:

Experience working with a broad set of GCP products (or extensive experience with another Public Cloud platform, such as Azure or AWS) and Cloud security and networking.

Hands-on working experience of building and administering Kubernetes clusters in a production environment and experience in automating/scripting to remove toil.

Ability to quickly understand, update and write code in languages such as Python, Java, Golang BASH and PowerShell;

Working experience monitoring SLO’s, SLI’s and SLAs and logging updates and alerting where appropriate;

Strong DevOps understanding and familiarity, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps;

 

Behavioural Skills:

Mentoring other engineers in SRE best practices;

Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent troubleshooting skills;

Strong understanding of the software engineering life cycle, and collaborative working as part of an engineering team;

 

And any experience of these would be really useful:

Be proficient in the following tooling – Dynatrace, Stackdriver/Cloud Operations Suite, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud logging, Cloud Consumption and RTL viewer

 

About working for us…

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

30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

 

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

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

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