Senior Software Engineer – DevOps/SRE Focus

The Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in the Digital Channel Servicing Lab is looking for an experienced engineer with strong development skills and a focus on DevOps/SRE practices. 

As a senior engineer, you’ll work in a multi-disciplinary team that supports the core of the Scottish Widows digital estate. Your role will help improve the speed and reliability of change across our engineering teams, while ensuring services are stable and scalable for customers. 

This role may suit a backend or full-stack engineer looking to reduce engineering toil, or someone with a DevOps/SRE background seeking a new challenge. 

What you’ll do  

• Investigate, fix and remediate service issues to improve the performance and the reliability of our diverse application estate.

• Contribute to and/or lead post incident reviews and drive problem resolution to prevent recurrence.

• Identify and eliminate toil through automation with a focus on continuous improvement.

• Create pro-active monitoring and observability solutions to help us see issues before our customers do .

• Define and measure Service Level Objectives and Service Level Indicators. 

• Lead initiatives within the team, and help mentor more junior colleagues.
   

What you’ll need 

• Strong knowledge of SRE principles (SLI, SLO & SLA) and how these can be implemented in practice.

• Can independently design, implement, manage and optimise cloud deployments, proficient in using orchestrations tools such as Jenkins, GitHub, and Harness. 

• Strong DevOps understanding, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform, Jenkins, Harness, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps.

• Confident programming and troubleshooting issues in at least one of the following languages: Java, Groovy, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PowerShell or Bash/Shell.  

• Experience of developing for, or administrating, Kubernetes. 

• Experience in identifying toil and building automated solutions to remove it. 

• Experience working with a broad set of GCP products (or extensive experience with another Public Cloud platform, such as Azure or AWS) and Cloud security and networking. 

• Experience in Cloud monitoring tools, preferably Dynatrace.
   

It would be great if you also had 

• Experience in the banking and finance industry.

• Used Jira, Confluence and understood Agile working practices. 

• Certifications in GCP or another cloud platform, such as Azure or AWS. 
   

Why Lloyds Banking Group 

We’re on an exciting journey and there couldn’t be a better time to join us. The investments we’re making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects, fresh possibilities, and countless new ways for our people to work, learn, and thrive. 

About working for us 

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 under-represented 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 

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today