Google Product Site Reliability Engineer

JOB TITLE: Google Product Site Reliability Engineer

SALARY: £47,790 – £53,100

LOCATION(S): Leeds

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 office.

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 a Google Product Site Reliability Engineer to join our Public Cloud Platform. 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.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in infrastructure engineering and a passion for technology. Commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions is a must.

What you’ll do

• Be hands-on engineering, maintaining our Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipeline-based product and services by responding to change, implementing enhancements & improving reliability and customer experience

• Observing, investigating & fixing service issues, with an engineering attitude – resolving via code changes and implementing improvements to prevent repeat issues

• Implementing further automation and reducing toil, by utilising existing Cloud tooling or implementing new technologies

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

What you’ll need

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

• Experience working with a broad set of Public Cloud technologies and services

• Ability to quickly understand, update and write new scripts in languages such as Python, Groovy, PowerShell, BASH

• A strong understanding of Cloud Security

• Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent solving skills

• Exposure and ideally some experience of developing for, or administrating Kubernetes clusters in a production environment

It would be great if you also had

• Recent practical experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation

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

• Candidates with less direct experience in cloud engineering, who can demonstrate strong skills in other areas such as sysadmin, software engineering or other technology/engineering fields who also are able to quickly adapt and pick up new skills will also be considered

You'll be able to demonstrate:

• Ability to work with architectural, business and other engineers to shape, design and engineer solutions

• Ability to work with a team of engineers to deliver domain-owned deliverables and dependencies

• Technology agnostic and are willing to adapt their approach in pursuit of the best solution

• Continuous curiosity to learn and develop themselves with industry best practice methods and tooling in the cloud function

About working for us

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 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.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, 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.

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

• A minimum of 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies