LOCATION(S): Manchester
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re all driven by our purpose, to Help Britain Prosper. It's why we exist – our reason to get out of bed in the morning. The choices we make, our success and our future really matter.
But the world is changing fast. And we’re changing too. It’s never been a more exciting time to join us as we transform our business to shape finance as a force for good.
Our team
We are a well‑established, solution‑focused Cloud Platform team modernising the bank's next‑generation technical platform – an essential part of one of the UK’s largest financial‑services transformations. We work closely with business teams within the organisation to build end‑to‑end solutions that let product teams safely leverage cloud infrastructure for Analytics, Gen AI/ML, Databases, Storage, Serverless HPC and Application Workloads.
Our engineering remit is broad, focusing on product curation, providing data‑warehousing and data‑segregation capabilities, and building automation to ensure work is delivered end to end with continuous quality‑assurance controls in place so outcomes meet required standards. We also lead the way in bringing AI into our workflows to automate and improve our cloud offerings.
Job title: Azure Site Reliability Engineer
Salary: £48,987 – £54,430
Our core technology focus for this role is Microsoft Azure. We are particularly interested in people with experience in one or more of the following: Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Policy, Azure Batch, Azure Key Vault, Azure SQL, Azure Storage Account, Azure API Management, and with strong fundamentals in Networking, Security, IAM, Platform Engineering, Terraform, CI/CD (Harness/GitHub Actions), PowerShell, Az CLI, Git Workflows, Backstage and Dynatrace.
We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with strong Azure experience. In this role, you’ll spend roughly half your time managing incidents to keep operations running smoothly and the other half improving our services through automation, with out‑of‑hours support required.
About you
You will work collaboratively with Engineering Leads and Product Owners, in building, contributing to and executing our platform roadmap. In addition to participating in the planning and delivery of our goals, you will drive prioritisation, automate processes using traditional and Gen AI tools, escalating impediments, and demonstrating successes. You will have the opportunity to participate in technical communities, work with internal customers across several domains within the organisation, and mentor early‑career engineers to advance their technical skills.
Key Responsibilities
* Maintain our Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline‑based product and services by responding to change, implementing enhancements, and improving reliability and customer experience.
* Implement further automation and reduce toil, utilising existing cloud tooling or implementing new technologies.
* Improve operational excellence, including monitoring, incident response, problem management, cost optimisation and reliability.
* Be accountable for day‑to‑day health of both production and non‑production environments and respond to incidents as required.
* Investigate and fix service issues with an engineering attitude – resolving via code changes and implementing improvements to prevent repeat issues.
* Engage in Agile team ceremonies and contribute to continuous improvement efforts.
* Provide technical expertise and input to establish the risk tolerance of products and services.
* Communicate incident status updates clearly and frequently to other teams, customers and stakeholders.
* Apply SRE practices and introduce chaos engineering where appropriate to strengthen resilience and validate reliability.
Essential Skills & Experience
* Strong DevOps understanding, including Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, Harness, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps.
* Experience working with a broad set of public cloud technologies and services.
* Ability to quickly understand, update and write new scripts in languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell, and BASH.
* Strong understanding of cloud security.
* Experience in problem‑solving with logical thinking and excellent solving skills.
* Experience with monitoring tools and techniques to ensure system reliability and performance.
Desirable Skills
* Recent practical experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation.
* Certifications in Azure or another cloud platform, such as GCP.
* Candidates with less direct experience in cloud engineering who can demonstrate strong skills in other areas such as sysadmin, software engineering or other technology/engineering fields and can quickly adapt to new skills will also be considered.
* Technology agnostic and willing to adapt approach to pursue the best solution.
* Continuous curiosity to learn and develop themselves with industry best practice methods and tooling in the cloud function.
What you’ll get in return
* A performance share bonus.
* A flexible cash pot to spend on benefits.
* A generous pension contribution and private health cover.
* Up to 30 days leave depending on grade and service, with ability to purchase more.
* Various colleague share schemes.
We value equal opportunity and are proud of our diverse and inclusive workplace. If you have the skills we’re seeking and a key role in a major data transformation appeals to you, apply now.
About working for us
We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. If you need reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, let us know.
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