Senior Site Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE: Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SALARY: £72,702 - £82,000

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds

HOURS: Full-time

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

We’re transforming how data and security are engineered across Lloyds Banking Group, using data, automation and modern architectures to protect our customers hin the Chief Security Office, the Security Data & AI Lab is building intelligent, AI-driven security capabilities that detect, disrupt and deter threats at pace and scale!

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll be an experienced engineering practitioner responsible for improving the reliability, scalability and operational excellence of cloud-hosted services!

As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you’ll:

• Lead the operation, reliability, scalability and performance improvement of cloud-hosted applications and services.

• Drive automation initiatives that reduce manual effort, improve consistency and strengthen service resilience.

• Partner with engineering, platform and product teams to deliver and continuously improve cloud solutions and security data platforms.

• Lead incident response, problem investigations and root cause analysis activities, ensuring learning is converted into measurable improvements.

• Develop and enhance observability, monitoring and alerting capabilities that provide actionable insight into service health and customer impact.

• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards, patterns and communities of practice across the organisation.

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and technology to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and be part of it too.

We’re looking for experienced engineers who are passionate about reliability engineering, cloud technologies and operational excellence.

• SRE & Service Engineering skills, with significant experience improving the reliability, availability and supportability of production services. The SBO Skills Library identifies SRE & Service Engineering as a core engineering capability.

• Dev Ops expertise, including automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery and collaborative software delivery practices. Dev Ops is identified as a core engineering skill within the enterprise skills taxonomy.

• Strong experience working with public cloud platforms, particularly Google Cloud Platform (GCP), within operational or engineering environments.

• Strong scripting or programming capability using languages such as Python, Power Shell or Bash to automate operational activities and improve reliability outcomes.

• Experience implementing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code solutions and engineering platforms using tools such as Terraform.

• Problem Solving and Critical Thinking skills, with experience diagnosing complex production incidents and driving effective remediation. These are recognised enterprise-wide skills in the SBO Skills Library.

• Collaboration and Impactful Communication skills, with the ability to build strong working relationships and explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences. These are recognised enterprise-wide skills in the SBO Skills Library.

And any experience of this would be really useful

• Experience with Google Sec Ops.

• Experience working in Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Software Engineering or Dev Ops roles supporting complex production environments.

• Experience with monitoring and observability platforms such as Dynatrace.

• Experience using Terraform, Git Hub, Kubernetes or similar engineering tooling.

• Experience working with Jira and Confluence within Agile delivery teams.

• Professional certifications in GCP or comparable cloud technologies.

• Experience coaching engineers, developing reusable engineering patterns and improving operational standards.

• Interest / passion in AI and the application of agentic solutions would be advantageous. This lab is at the forefront of…