JOB TITLE: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
LOCATION: London
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our London Gresham Street office location
About this opportunity
Our Engineering Platform team is building the next-generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group-a platform designed for every engineer and team across the group. You'll play a pivotal role in one of the UK's largest financial services transformations, working with shared tools and technology to empower colleagues and drive innovation.
Our Team
Within SRE and Migrations, we nurture a service-oriented culture and champion Site Reliability Engineering for continuous improvement. We collaborate closely with Engineering Leads and Product Owners to enhance tool performance, always striving to meet the needs of the UK's leading retail bank. We believe in supporting each other, sharing knowledge, and celebrating our collective achievements.
Who Are We Looking For
We're seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer who thrives on solving complex challenges and supporting business growth. In this role, you'll collaborate with LBG experts, engineers, and partners to deliver scalable, robust solutions with measurable impact. Strong communication skills, the ability to bridge business and IT, and a collaborative spirit are essential. We value curiosity, a passion for technology, and a commitment to continuous improvement-qualities that help us maintain high standards and reliability across our services.
If you're a motivated leader who inspires teams, champions inclusivity, and is eager to shape the future, we'd love to hear from you.
What You'll Do
* Deliver on LBG Engineering Platform/Lab and team roadmaps.
* Collaborate with engineering teams to release and evolve enterprise-class strategic products and features.
* Enhance the resiliency and reliability of platform services and product features.
* Monitor system health, manage error budgets, and drive improvements in Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) and Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR).
* Incident & Problem Management: Lead incident response and post-mortem analysis.
* Approach problem-solving with an engineering mindset, diagnosing and resolving issues.
* Develop tools/systems that support service/product reliability and code quality.
* Working across multiple labs and signature projects in the Engineering space.
* Lead innovative initiatives to drive next-generation technology and foster a high-performing, supportive environment.
* Actively mentor, coach, and develop peers across teams, helping others grow their technical skills.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
We're on an exciting transformation journey and there could not 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.
What you’ll need:
* Strong understanding of SRE & DevOps, with experience in Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines (Harness, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible).
* Proficiency in Dynatrace, Prometheus, and Cloud Observability.
* Knowledge of GCP and Azure cloud platforms.
* Reliability & Performance Management: Design, implement, and take ownership for SLOs for critical platform services.
* Platform Advocacy & Collaboration: Champion SRE principles across the Engineering Platform. Work closely with Lab Product Owners, Engineering Leads, and application teams to embed reliability into design and delivery.
* Technical Leadership: Provide guidance across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, observability tooling, and automation frameworks.
And any experience of these would be really useful:
* Experience with programming languages such as Python or Golang.
* Passion for AI solutions and development.
* Proficient knowledge in cloud security and networking.
About working for us
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.
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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
* 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.
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!
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