Senior Site Reliability Engineer; Private Cloud

Overview

JOB TITLE: Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Private Cloud)

SALARY: £72,702 - £80,780

LOCATION(S): Leeds

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity

Our Private Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for a passionate and experienced engineer to help run and evolve one of the Group's most critical platforms. As a Private Cloud SRE, you'll be a key contributor to the stability, performance, and scalability of services that support the Bank's digital transformation and long-term technology vision.

You'll work hands-on with container platforms, VMware infrastructure, and observability tooling to ensure our services are resilient and efficient. You'll lead and participate in post-mortems, drive automation, and continuously improve the platform through engineering-led solutions. This role also involves working in Agile environments, collaborating across multiple teams and disciplines to deliver high-quality outcomes at pace.

• Support and enhance a wide range of platform technologies, including VMware infrastructure, container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, Open Shift), databases, and applications.

• Use Infrastructure as Code to manage environments and support CI/CD pipelines.

• Improve observability using tools such as Dynatrace, ensuring proactive monitoring and alerting.

• Lead and contribute to post-mortems to identify and implement long-term fixes.

• Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack, including infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and applications.

• Work in Agile teams, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners across the organisation.

• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.

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.

• At least 5 years experience of Dev Ops principles, including Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD.

• 5+ years of experience with container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, Open Shift).

• Hands-on experience with VMware technologies in a production environment.

• Familiarity with observability platforms, such as Dynatrace.

• Proven ability to solve across a broad range of platform technologies.

• Experience with either Linux or Windows operating systems.

• An attitude focused on continuous improvement and reducing manual steps through automation.

• Experience with automation tools and APIs for infrastructure management.

• Exposure to configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet).

• Leadership or mentoring experience in technical teams.

• Certifications in VMware or any major cloud provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS).

• Background in system administration or software engineering with a strong interest in learning cloud-native practices.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

• 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

Ready for a career where you ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.