End Date
Thursday 14 November 2024
Salary Range
£45,954 - £51,060
We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
Flexible Working Options
Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Assistant Site Reliability Engineer
SALARY: £45,954pa to £51,060pa plus the benefits mentioned below
LOCATION: Manchester
HOURS: Full-Time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, and the role will require the successful candidate to be spending at least two days per week, or a minimum of 40% of their time in the Manchester hub.
Lloyds Banking Group is on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we are redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture and our mindset are changing to craft a true agile, product-focused, engineering-led organisation.
Job Profile Summary
An exciting opening has arisen for an Assistant Site Reliability Engineer within the Core Banking System Platform. We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic team within the Next Gen Core/Next Gen Insights Lab. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our Core Banking System, specifically Thought Machine Vault. This is a rare opportunity to join the team as a Site Reliability Engineer as we work to deliver the first of many new Banking products onto Vault.
Key Accountabilities
* Assisting in the automation of operational processes and systems.
* Supporting service recovery during outages through incident and problem management.
* Participating in post-mortems for incidents to identify root causes and areas for improvement.
* Contributing to the implementation of new SRE practices to enhance service levels.
* Helping manage DevOps tooling services, ensuring compliance and risk management.
* Collaborating with Engineering Teams to understand challenges and deliver value through DevOps solutions.
* Promoting security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.
* Working with other teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery.
* Communicating with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide updates.
* Identifying opportunities for performance improvements in systems and applications.
* Assisting in capacity planning to ensure systems can handle future growth.
About You
* Experience as an SRE, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or in a similar software or cloud role.
* Experience with CI/CD tools – Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Harness.
* Understanding of Monitoring tools – Dynatrace/Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus.
* Strong problem-solving skills and experience in incident management and resolution.
* Understanding of SRE concepts and principles.
* Good analytical skills and the ability to work methodically.
* Programming and scripting experience.
It Would Also Be Great If You Had Experience Of:
* Familiarity with Cloud Platforms – GCP, AWS, Azure.
* Basic knowledge of Containerization – Kubernetes/Docker.
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools e.g., Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet.
* ITIL or Service management experience.
* Exposure to Agile work practices.
* Basic understanding of Application Lifecycle Management and Software Delivery Lifecycle.
* Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and high availability design.
* Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.
As a function we're committed to the principles of Flexible Working and want to find the right person for the job. We'll welcome applications from candidates interested in working the role as a job share or applying for the role on reduced hours.
We're disability confident. So if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
Benefits
* 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.
* 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you will be empowered to make a difference to customers, businesses and communities. Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you will continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
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