Senior Site Reliability Engineer (Private Cloud) in Manchester

LOCATION(S): Manchester

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 Bristol office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About this opportunity

Our Private Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for a passionate and experienced engineer to help run and evolve one of the Group's most critical platforms. As a Private Cloud SRE, you'll be a key contributor to the stability, performance, and scalability of services that support the Bank's digital transformation and long‑term technology vision. You'll work hands‑on with container platforms, VMware infrastructure, and observability tooling to ensure our services are resilient and efficient. You'll lead and participate in post‑mortems, drive automation, and continuously improve the platform through engineering‑led solutions. This role also involves working in Agile environments, collaborating across multiple teams and disciplines to deliver high‑quality outcomes at pace.

What you'll be doing:

• Support and enhance a wide range of platform technologies, including VMware infrastructure, container platforms and orchestration (e.g. Kubernetes, OpenShift), databases, and applications.
• Use Infrastructure as Code to manage environments and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve observability using tools such as Dynatrace, ensuring proactive monitoring and alerting.
• Lead and contribute to post‑mortems to identify and implement long‑term fixes.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack, including infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and applications.
• Work in Agile teams, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners across the organisation.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.

What we're looking for:

• At least 5 years experience of DevOps principles, including Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD.
• 5+ years of experience with container platforms and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Hands‑on experience with VMware technologies in a production environment.
• Familiarity with observability platforms, such as Dynatrace.
• Proven ability to solve across a broad range of platform technologies.
• Experience with either Linux or Windows operating systems.
• An attitude focused on continuous improvement and reducing manual steps through automation.

And any experience of these would be great:

• Experience with automation tools and APIs for infrastructure management.
• Exposure to configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Puppet).
• Leadership or mentoring experience in technical teams.
• Certifications in VMware or any major cloud provider (e.g. Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Background in system administration or software engineering with a strong interest in learning cloud‑native practices.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you. Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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

Ready for a career where you'll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.