Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Site Reliability Engineer Location(s): Halifax, Manchester and Leeds Salary Range: £68,202 - £75,780 Hours: Full time Working Pattern: At least two days per week (or 40% of your time) at one of our offices listed above. The team is predominately based in Halifax therefore the preferred location for this role is Halifax however, we welcome applications from colleagues based in Manchester or Leeds but occasional travel to Halifax will be required. About this opportunity: The Engineering Platform team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're passionate about building teams that are energised, collaborative and inspired by finding the best solutions for our customers. Specific activities which you'll be responsible for include: Act as a Subject Matter Expert on GKE/AKS providing technical decision making and mentoring. Streamlining of operational processes through automation and systems thinking. Supplying technical leadership during service outages to recover services through incident and problem management. Leading and contributing to blameless post-mortems for serious incidents. Improving and embedding new SRE practices to improve levels of service. Management of DevOps tooling services through the service lifecycle including risk management and compliance. Understanding Engineering Teams challenges and helping them deliver value through consultancy and the implementation of robust DevOps solutions. Creating sustainable change and build capabilities. What you’ll need: Experience as a SRE, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer or in a similar software or cloud role. Strong critical thinking skills, leading live support, incident management and resolution. Technical leadership experience. Strong understanding of SRE concepts and principles. Experience of CI/CD across various tooling and a good understanding of DevOps. Excellent analytical skills and able to work methodically and diligently. Programming and scripting experience. Displaying excellent interpersonal and communication skills. A passion for service, ensuring our colleagues and customers receive the most reliable service possible. Any experience of these would be really useful: Cloud Platforms – GCP/OpenShift/Azure. Containerisation – Kubernetes/Docker/Podman/Buildah. CI/CD – Jenkins/Tekton/GitHub Actions/Harness/ArgoCD. Monitoring – Dynatrace. Experience administering – Nexus RM / Nexus Firewall / Nexus Lifecycle /SonarQube. Infrastructure as Code e.g. Chef, Terraform, Ansible. Linux Administration. ITIL or Service management experience. Formal software development experience. Agile work practices. Application Lifecycle Management. Software Delivery Lifecycle. About working for us: 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 also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes: 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. Up to 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. #J-18808-Ljbffr