At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team of engineers to build and evolve scalable Azure solutions.
- Company: Join a leading Fintech driving tech modernisation in the UK.
- Benefits: Generous pension, performance bonuses, 30 days holiday, and flexible working.
- Other info: Dynamic hybrid work environment with excellent career growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of cloud innovation and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience with Azure, leadership skills, and a passion for learning.
The predicted salary is between 70929 - 78810 £ per year.
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.
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.
What you’ll need
- Experience and robust technical understanding 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.
- 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.
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.
- 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
Workplace adjustments
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. 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.
Azure Landing Zone Site Reliability Engineer in Leeds employer: LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
Lloyds Banking Group is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. With the flexibility of remote working and opportunities for career advancement within the Economic Crime Prevention function, employees can thrive in a supportive environment while contributing to meaningful compliance efforts. The company's commitment to diversity and inclusion further enhances its appeal, making it a rewarding place to build a career.
