Site Reliability Engineer

End Date
Tuesday 05 March 2024
Salary Range
£68,202 - £102,303
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Hybrid Working
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Site Reliability Engineer
SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £68,202 - £75,780
LOCATION: Edinburgh
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
Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) for Release defining and contributing to a customised release framework for a Lab, automating and improving processes used for Route to Live deployments/implementations.
The key objective is to reduce toil. Toil is the kind of work tied to running a production service that tends to be manual, repetitive, automatable, tactical, devoid of enduring value, and that scales linearly as a service grows.
You’ll be aiming to deliver the highest quality customer driven software/ Infrastructure whilst continually challenging, motivating, mentoring and supporting their engineering teams. You’ll work in cross-disciplinary teams delivering exciting customer driven solutions and high quality software/ Infrastructure and showcase excellent interpersonal and communication skill whilst efficiently working across the project life cycle to ensure software operates as intended.
This is a leadership level role and will blend both deep domain and technical expertise within a feature/delivery team and great passion for coaching and developing people in a 'player-coach' model.
Working closely with the Technical Delivery Managers to manage the realisation into Production activities, through route to live data, environments and engineering dependency consultation/support/delivery.
You’ll be highlighting shortcomings and suggesting improvements in current IT Security processes, systems and procedures within assigned unit and/or discipline. Whilst delivering prescribed outcomes for area of responsibility by working within established knowledge management systems.
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

• Experience of identifying shortcomings and suggesting improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures.
  
• Takes responsibility for delivering a prescribed budget for own area of the organisation and/or conducts complex analyses on budget progress in other areas while working within established systems.
  
• Experience of exploring issues and/or needs to establish potential causes, related issues and barriers.
  
• Achieving planned commitments by developing short-term and/or medium-term work schedules and approving overtime or using additional resources as needed
  
• Providing input into the development of procedures for an area within the organisation, then monitors the implementation of those procedures.
  

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Deployment tools such as UCD, Spinnaker
  
• CI/CD such as Jenkins, harness
  
• Testing / Running API Clients
  
• Cloud Engineering
  
• Grows own capabilities by pursuing and investing in personal development opportunities and develops the capabilities of direct reports by working within existing development framework; provides specialised training or coaching in area of expertise to others throughout the organisation
  

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.