At a Glance
- Tasks: Manage incidents, enhance automation, and improve operational excellence in Azure environments.
- Company: Join Lloyds Banking Group, a leader in financial services transformation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, career growth, and a chance to work with cutting-edge cloud technology.
- Other info: Collaborative team environment with opportunities for mentoring and continuous learning.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on secure and innovative cloud solutions for customers.
- Qualifications: Experience with Azure and strong engineering fundamentals required.
The predicted salary is between 47790 - 53100 £ per year.
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Salary: £47,790-£53,100
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by our purpose - Helping Britain Prosper. It shapes our decisions, our ambitions and how we show up every day. The world is changing rapidly, and so are we. It's an exciting time to join us as we modernise our technology platforms and transform how we use cloud to deliver more secure, resilient, and innovative services for our customers.
About the Team
Our Cloud Platform team is a well‑established, solution‑focused engineering group driving one of the UK's largest financial‑services transformations. We're modernising the bank's next‑generation technical platform and partnering with product teams across the organisation to deliver secure, scalable cloud solutions for:
- Analytics
- GenAI/ML
- Databases
- Storage
- Serverless
- HPC
- Application workloads
Our remit is broad: from product curation and data‑platform capabilities to automation, quality assurance, and embedding AI into our engineering flows. Everything we build aims to empower teams and improve the developer experience.
About the Role
We're building a cloud platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers - and modern, easy and environmentally conscious for developers. This role focuses on Microsoft Azure, and we're particularly interested in people with experience in any of the following:
- Azure: AKS, Azure Policy, Batch, Key Vault, SQL, Storage, API Management
- Engineering fundamentals: Networking, Security, IAM, Platform Engineering
- Tooling: Terraform, CI/CD (Harness or GitHub Actions), PowerShell, AZ CLI, Git workflows, Backstage, Dynatrace
We're looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with strong Azure experience. Your time will be split between:
- Managing and resolving incidents
- Improving operational excellence
- Driving automation and reducing toil
- Participating in an out‑of‑hours support rota
About You
You'll collaborate with Engineering Leads and Product Owners to shape and deliver our platform roadmap. You'll contribute to planning, prioritising, automation, and continuous improvement. You'll work across internal teams and technical communities, sharing knowledge, developing reusable capabilities, and supporting early‑career engineers through mentoring.
Key Responsibilities
- Apply hands‑on engineering to maintain our Infrastructure‑as‑Code and CI/CD‑based products and services
- Improve reliability and customer experience by enhancing automation and reducing manual effort
- Drive operational excellence across monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, cost optimisation and reliability
- Take accountability for the health of production and non‑production environments
- Investigate and resolve service issues, implementing fixes and improvements through code
- Contribute to Agile ceremonies and support continuous learning within the team
- Provide technical expertise to help assess and manage risk
- Communicate incident updates clearly and regularly with customers and stakeholders
- Apply SRE principles, including chaos engineering where appropriate, to improve resilience
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