Description
Site Reliability Engineer – Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Location:Leeds, West Yorkshire
Salary & Benefits:£47,790-£53,100
At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by our purpose –Helping Britain Prosper. It guides the decisions we make, how we show up each day, and the impact we aim to have for customers, colleagues and communities!
The world is changing rapidly, and we’re evolving with it. This is an exciting time to join us as we modernise our technology platforms and reshape the future of financial services for the better.
About the Team
Our Cloud Platform team is a well‑established, solution‑focused engineering community, delivering one of the UK’s largest technology transformations. We're modernising the bank’s next‑generation cloud platform and partnering closely with product teams to enable secure, scalable and compliant cloud solutions across:
1. Analytics
2. GenAI/ML
3. Databases
4. Storage
5. Serverless HPC
6. Application workloads
Our engineering work spans product curation, data‑platform capability, data segregation, automation, quality assurance, and embedding AI into our workflows. Everything we build aims to empower engineering teams, improve the developer experience and raise delivery standards across the Group.
About the Role
We’re looking for aSite Reliability Engineerwith strong experience inGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP).
You’ll collaborate with Engineering Leads and Product Owners to shape and deliver our platform roadmap. You’ll help plan and prioritise work, automate processes using both traditional and GenAI tooling, remove impediments, and contribute to our continuous improvement culture.
You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in technical communities, work with internal customers across multiple domains, and support early‑career engineers through role‑modelling and mentoring.
Core technology areas for this role include:
7. Google Cloud Platform:Analytics, AI, Databases, Serverless products
8. Engineering fundamentals:Networking, Security, IAM, Platform Engineering
9. Tooling:Terraform, CI/CD (Harness or GitHub Actions), Python, Git workflows, Backstage
10. Security & Policy‑as‑Code:Open Policy Agent, Organisation Policy, Security Health Analytics, Wiz
11. Observability:Dynatrace
In this role, you’ll spend around half your time resolving production incidents and ensuring operational health, and the other half improving our platform through engineering and automation. Participation in an out‑of‑hours support rota is required.
About You
You enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and improving systems over time. You work collaboratively, communicate clearly and proactively share knowledge. You’re comfortable working in various fields, adapting your approach, and continuously learning as technology evolves.
You value inclusion, teamwork and mentorship, and you enjoy contributing to community‑based learning and capability uplift across the platform.
Key Responsibilities
12. Apply hands‑on engineering to maintain Infrastructure‑as‑Code and CI/CD‑based services
13. Deliver enhancements that improve reliability, scalability and customer experience
14. Reduce toil and improve efficiency through automation and new tooling adoption
15. Drive operational perfection across monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, cost optimisation and reliability
16. Be responsible for the health of production and non‑production environments and lead incident response activities
17. Investigate and fix service‑related issues using code‑first engineering approaches
18. Contribute to Agile ceremonies and support continuous team improvement
19. Provide clear and regular communication of incident status to stakeholders
20. Apply SRE practices and introduce chaos engineering where appropriate to strengthen resilience
Essential Skills & Experience
21. Strong DevOps and cloud‑engineering background, including IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Harness, Azure DevOps or similar)
22. Experience working with a broad range of public‑cloud technologies
23. Ability to write, update and maintain scripts (Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Bash)
24. Strong understanding of cloud security principles
25. Excellent problem‑solving skills and structured logical thinking
26. Experience with observability and monitoring tools
Desirable Skills
27. Experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation
28. Certifications in GCP or another cloud provider (e.g., Azure)
29. Transferable experience from sysadmin, software engineering or other technical subject areas
30. Technology‑agnostic approach and willingness to adopt the best tool for the job
31. Curiosity and aim to learn continuously, applying emerging cloud best practices
What You’ll Get in Return
We’re committed to equal opportunity and ensuring colleagues represent the communities we serve. Your growth, wellbeing and development matter to us.
You’ll receive:
32. A performance‑based share bonus
33. A flexible benefits allowance
34. A generous pension contribution
35. Private health cover
36. Up to 30 days annual leave (plus ability to purchase more)
37. Access to a range of colleague share schemes
If this sounds like the kind of work you want to be part of – we’d love to hear from you.
Working With Us
We’re committed to building an inclusive organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want colleagues to feel they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
If you’d like reasonable adjustments made during the recruitment process, please let us know.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.