GCP Product SRE

End Date
Monday 05 February 2024
Salary Range
£68,202 - £75,780
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Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
Job Description Summary
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: GCP Product SRE
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £66,861 - £74,290
LOCATION: Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax & Manchester
HOURS: 35 hours, full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.
About this opportunity
Our Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for an experienced and passionate Engineer with strong hands-on development experience. As a Cloud SRE you’ll be an active and leading member of a cloud-focused team of engineers - working on one of the Group’s flagship projects to run and maintain a set of products and services on the Google Cloud Platform that will enable the business to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank’s vision for 2024 and beyond!
You’ll get involved in hands-on engineering, maintaining our Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline based product and services by responding to change, implementing enhancements & improving reliability and customer experience.
You’ll be observability, investigating & fixing service issues, with an engineering attitude - resolving via code changes and implementing improvements to prevent repeat issues. Whilst implementing further automation and reducing toil, by utilising existing Cloud tooling or implementing new technologies.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.
What you’ll need

• Strong DevOps understanding, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps
  
• Experience working with a broad set of Public Cloud technologies and services
  
• Ability to quickly understand, update and write new scripts in languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell, BASH
  
• A strong understanding of Cloud Security
  
• Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent solving skills
  
• Exposure and ideally some experience of developing for, or administrating Kubernetes clusters in a production environment
  

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Leadership experience including line management, team leadership, mentoring and task management
  
• Recent practical experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation
  
• Certifications in GCP or another cloud platform, such as Azure, AWS
  
• Candidates with less direct experience in cloud engineering, who can demonstrate strong skills in other areas such as sysadmin, software engineering or other technology/engineering fields who also are able to quickly adapt and pick up new skills will also be considered
  

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 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.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know
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
  

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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.