Site Reliability Engineer - Next Gen Core Lab
Location: Manchester
Time Type: Full Time
Posted On: 4 Days Ago
End Date: November 15, 2024 (10 days left to apply)
Salary Range: £68,202 - £75,780
Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share
Job Description Summary:
Lloyds Banking Group is on a mission to build the bank of the future and we need your help to do it! We are redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, culture, and mindset are changing to craft a true agile, product-focused, engineering-led organisation.
Job Profile Summary:
An exciting opening has arisen for a 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 ensure the quality and reliability of our Core Banking System, specifically Thought Machine Vault.
A typical day in this role would include… What your key accountabilities will be:
* Acting as a Subject Matter Expert providing technical decision making and mentoring.
* Streamlining 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.
* Managing 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 building capabilities.
* Ensuring security best practices and compliance with industry standards and regulations.
* Working closely with other teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery.
* Communicating effectively with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide updates.
* Identifying and implementing performance improvements in systems and applications.
* Conducting 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.
* Demonstrable working knowledge of CI/CD – Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Harness.
* Demonstrable working knowledge of Monitoring – Dynatrace/Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus.
* Strong critical thinking skills, leading live support, incident management, and resolution.
* Technical leadership experience.
* Strong understanding of SRE concepts and principles.
* Experience with CI/CD across various tooling and a good understanding of DevOps.
* Excellent analytical skills and the ability to work methodically and diligently.
* Programming and scripting experience.
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
* A passion for service, ensuring our colleagues and customers receive the most reliable service possible.
* Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder communication.
* Performance tuning and capacity planning.
* Experience supporting and implementing high-availability systems.
It would also be great if you had experience of:
* Cloud Platforms – GCP, AWS, Azure.
* Containerization – Kubernetes/Docker.
* Infrastructure as Code e.g., Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet.
* ITIL or Service management experience.
* Formal software development experience.
* Agile work practices.
* Disaster recovery planning and high availability design.
* Advanced 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.
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
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.
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