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Lead Azure Landing Zone Site Reliability Engineer – hybrid role at Lloyds Banking Group, Leeds or Halifax, full-time 35 hrs/week.
Own scalable Public Cloud solutions, drive SRE best practices, mentor a squad, and shape fintech innovation in the UK.
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Job Description
Azure Landing Zone Site Reliability Engineer
Locations: Halifax, Leeds
Salary: £70,929 - £78,810
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 Leeds or Halifax office. The role may include some out of hours/on-call duties worked on a rota basis.
About this opportunity
We’re modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.
We’re looking for an Azure Landing Zone Site Reliability Engineer to join our Public Cloud Platform as a Squad Lead. You’ll have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable us to become the biggest Fintech in the UK.
The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in leading others in operations teams and can demonstrate an SRE approach and mindset. Commitment to great service whilst providing supporting high-quality, scalable solutions is a must. You'll have worked hands-on with Azure Cloud products and service as well other supporting tools and methodologies in a modern cloud operations environment (CI/CD, ServiceNow, Dynatrace, agile, Jira, etc.)
What you’ll do
Take a lead role organising and supporting a group of engineers working in our front-line Azure SRE team, collaborating with business platforms across the bank to build, release and evolve modern scalable Public Cloud solutions.
The team cover a wider range of Azure Cloud products as well as support for a number of LBG built services which enable LBG engineers to build on Azure Public Cloud (including some out of hours/on-call duties worked on a rota basis)
Take an SRE approach to this operations role, focussing on availability and reliability whilst always looking at opportunities for better observability, automation, and toil reduction.
Contribute to the wider Public Cloud strategic technology roadmaps
Why Lloyds Banking Group
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!
What you’ll need
- Experience and robust technical understand of working with a broad set of Azure cloud products and services
- Leadership experience including team leadership, mentoring and task management
- DevOps understanding, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps
- Ability to quickly understand, update and write code in languages such as Python, Groovy, BASH, PowerShell
- An understanding of Cloud security and networking
- Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent troubleshooting skills
- Demonstrate a passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills
- Experience in automating/scripting to remove toil
It would be great if you also had
- Certifications in Azure or another cloud platform, including providers like Google Cloud or Amazon Web Services
- Candidates with less direct experience in cloud engineering, who can demonstrate strong skills in other areas such as operations, leadership, ITIL disciplines who also are able to quickly adapt and pick up new skills will also be considered
- Experience of developing for, or administrating Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
You’ll be able to demonstrate:
- Ability to work with other engineers across different teams to achieve and engineer solutions to problems
- Ability to work with your team to meet targets and realise what is required to achieve our business goals
- Continuous curiosity to learn and develop themselves with industry best practice methods and tooling in the cloud function
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 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
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.
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