Site Reliability Engineer

As one of the leading retail banks in the UK, Lloyds Banking Group is undertaking a major engineering transformation. Our goal is to put technology at the forefront of our culture and transform banking.

Our team in General Insurance is passionate about creating new services for our customers that transform the customer and colleague experience. Our culture brings together smart, hardworking, people from a diverse group of backgrounds that enjoy a collaborative and innovative environment that supports flexible and agile working

As a Site Reliability Engineer at Lloyds (General Insurance) You'll be a part of a small but expanding SRE team responsible for driving high reliability into our systems by working closely with software development and IT-operations teams.

As one of the early joiners in this area You'll help shape our SRE strategy and mentor engineers in product teams to produce optimal code with a service engineering focus.

Want to know more?The SRE team will be focusing on Lloyds General Insurance production services and you'll have significant influence on design and the delivery of our products, features and new technical capabilities.

We love solving problems using tooling and technology to optimise our platforms and our ways of working, but you'll:

• Guarantee the reliability of Lloyds General Insurance production service providing support to a global and diverse organization.
• Provide platforms and tooling that enable shipping to production easy and reliably with a real attention to quality and control.
• Mitigate incidents as part of our blameless post-mortem culture and build solutions and automation to prevent them from happening again.
• Through our post incident reviews identify and mitigate weaknesses in incident management or software delivery optimising our SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) where required.
• Ensure all necessary monitoring, alerting and backup solutions are in place. Using SLOs to guide prioritization putting reliability front and centre
• Dive into large codebases, not being afraid of programming more than a few lines code yourself.
• Spend a small amount of your time dealing with incidents and internal change requests. This is not a service-desk or incident-only position, the vast majority of your time will be spent creating and optimizing our tools and infrastructure.

We'll be specifically looking for these skills on your CV

This is a relatively senior level role, and we're looking for the following skills and experience:

• Experience in software engineering and automation in one or more modern programming languages.
• Strong resilience and determination to make a difference.
• A true passion for monitoring, observability and an understanding of the importance of reliability in our large-scale production systems for our customers.
• Experience in public cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization.
• Prior experience with SRE or SRE concepts.

Our current tech stack is vast and wide ranging but includes the following core tech:

• Modern Web Tech such as JavaScript, NodeJS, React/Redux
• More Traditional\Compiled Tech such as C#. SQL. XML.
• Code Management and deployment tech such as GIT\TFS, Urban Code Deploy, Jenkins
• Automated testing capabilities such as Selenium, Cucumber

We'd also like to see experience of

• Working within an Agile environment working in Scrum and Waterfall environments, and being flexible to work with a mix of methodologies and inspire change quickly
• Passion to lead and work collaboratively across teams in order to align to Strategy and meet the overall goals of the Bank and Partners
• A hunger to learn and self-improve with a passionate not just about the result, but how you get there.
• Excitement about enabling others to achieve greater results than one can achieve alone and being part of a wider delivery team responsible for end to end solutions.

Join us and be part of an inclusive, values-led culture that celebrates diversity, equal opportunity and provides opportunities for flexible working.

Together we'll make it possible...

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

• Discretionary bonus
• Cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits or simply take the cash
• Private Medical Insurance
• Pension, where we'll give up to a max of 13%
• Share plans
• 30 days holiday plus bank holidays

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