Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description Summary

We’re looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join our Data CoE team. You’ll play a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and security of our cloud-native data platforms. This is a hands-on engineering role with a strong focus on automation, observability, incident response, and cross-team collaboration.

JOB TITLE:

Senior Site Reliability Engineer

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION:

Edinburgh or Leeds

WORKING PATTERN:
Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the Edinburgh or Leeds office.

We’re looking for an experienced and passionate Engineering Lead to take ownership of our Route to Live (RTL) team - a critical function within the IP&I Data Centre of Excellence (CoE). RTL is responsible for both Run and Build activities across our cloud-native estate, ensuring resilience, scalability, and innovation in how we deliver microservices and tooling to our internal customers.

As Security is central to this position, with duties including identifying and remediating vulnerabilities in cloud-native environments, integrating security scanning into CI/CD pipelines, and working closely with platform and security teams to enforce secure standards and policies.

Collaboration is vital, as you’ll partner with data science, engineering, and product teams to troubleshoot deployment and pipeline challenges. You will also share your expertise through comprehensive documentation, walkthroughs, and reusable templates, acting as a mentor and trusted technical advisor across teams.

Additionally, you will be responsible for creating essential runbooks, upgrade plans, and incident playbooks using Confluence, tracking work and risks via JIRA or similar tools, and communicating clearly with stakeholders from both technical and non-technical backgrounds.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone keen to make a real impact on platform reliability, security, and team collaboration in a forward-thinking, cloud-driven environment.

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive.

• Proven experience in SRE, Dev Ops, or Cloud Engineering roles.
• Strong knowledge of Cloud platforms: GCP (preferred), AWS or Azure.
• Proficiency in Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Harness).
• Experience with observability tools and distributed tracing.
• Solid understanding of cloud security principles and vulnerability management.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills.
• A collaborative mindset and a bias for action.
• You’ll help shape the future of reliability engineering at Lloyds, contributing to the evolution of our SRE Community of Practice and influencing standards across IP&I.

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.

• 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, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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