SRE DevOps Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group PLC; London; Hybrid; GBP 81,000 - 92,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in London is seeking an experienced SRE DevOps Engineer. This role involves maintaining and improving cloud infrastructure, fixing service issues, and mentoring junior engineers to ensure optimal performance. Candidates should have significant experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD automation, and monitoring tools. The position supports a hybrid working model and offers a competitive salary along with diverse benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual bonus award

Share schemes

Adaptable lifestyle benefits

30 days’ holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience with Kubernetes and Service Mesh.
• Proven understanding of CI/CD automation processes.
• Capable of automated testing methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, support & improve cloud infrastructure.
• Investigate and fix service issues.
• Mentor early career engineers and conduct technical interviews.

Skills

Kubernetes

Service Mesh (Istio)

CI/CD automation

Automated Unit/Integration/Load/Performance Testing

Proficient in monitoring tools

Job description

Overview

Job Title : SRE DevOps Engineer

Location : London

Salary : £81,999 - £91,110

Hours : Full time

Working Pattern : Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office a week.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose.

About this opportunity

Exciting opportunity for SRE DevOps Engineer to join our Client Servicing and Engagement platform. As SRE DevOps Engineer you’ll be responsible for ensuring our products run reliably, are scalable, and perform optimally in production environments.

You’ll supervise and manage these aspects to ensure our products meet the expected Service Level Objectives (SLOs) while also being accountable for one or more areas of the cloud infrastructure resources alongside supervising the work of the SREs in that area. You’ll focus on observability of your technical areas and prioritising the operational service improvements to best improve the SLOs.

What you’ll do

• Maintain, support & improve our cloud infrastructure in a specific technical area
• Investigate, fix and remove service issues with an engineering mindset
• Identify ways to improve observability continuously
• Identify toil relentlessly and design automated solutions to remove it
• Prioritise operational service improvements to meet or increase SLO
• Lead incident post-mortems
• Collaborate with Product Owner to balance run, change and improvement stories in each sprint based on metrics (e.g., outage rate)
• Mentor early career engineers and conduct technical interviews to enable hiring

What you’ll need

• Kubernetes (Vital requirement) and Service Mesh (Istio is currently used)
• CI/CD automation for build & release (experience with 1 or more tooling solutions)
• Automated Unit/Integration/Load/Performance Testing
• Proficient in monitoring tools (e.g., Azure Monitor/Log Analytics/Dynatrace), Security Cloud & API, Encryption & Certificates

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. We welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident and can provide reasonable adjustments to recruitment processes on request.

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle (e.g., discounted shopping)
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!

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. We’re focused on building 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.