Assistant Site Reliability Engineer- Next Gen Core Lab

End Date

Thursday 14 November 2024

Salary Range

£45,954 - £51,060

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Assistant Site Realibility Engineer

SALARY: £45,954pa to £51,060pa plus the benefits mentioned below

LOCATION: Manchester

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, and the role will require the successful candidate to be spending at least two days per week, or a minimum of 40% of their time in the Manchester hub.

Lloyds Banking Group is on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we are redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture and our mindset are changing to craft a true agile, product-focused, engineering-led organisation.

Job Profile Summary 

An exciting opening has arisen for an Assistant Site Reliability Engineer within the Core Banking System Platform.   We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Site Reliability Engineer to join our dynamic team within the Next Gen Core/Next Gen Insights Lab.   In this role, you will play a pivotal role in ensuring the quality and reliability of our Core Banking System, specifically Thought Machine Vault.   This is a rare opportunity to join the team as a Site Reliability Engineer as we work to deliver the first of many new Banking products onto Vault.

A typical day in this role would include… What your key accountabilities will be 

• Assisting in the automation of operational processes and systems.

• Supporting service recovery during outages through incident and problem management.

• Participating in post-mortems for incidents to identify root causes and areas for improvement.

• Contributing to the implementation of new SRE practices to enhance service levels.

• Helping manage DevOps tooling services, ensuring compliance and risk management.

• Collaborating with Engineering Teams to understand challenges and deliver value through DevOps solutions.

• Promoting security best practices and ensure compliance with industry standards.

• Working with other teams to ensure smooth integration and delivery.

• Communicating with stakeholders to understand requirements and provide updates.

• Identifying opportunities for performance improvements in systems and applications.

• Assisting in capacity planning to ensure systems can handle future growth.

About you

• Experience as an SRE, Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or in a similar software or cloud role.

• Experience with CI/CD tools – Jenkins/GitHub Actions/Harness.

• Understanding of Monitoring tools – Dynatrace/Splunk/Grafana/Prometheus.

• Strong problem-solving skills and experience in incident management and resolution.

• Understanding of SRE concepts and principles.

• Experience with CI/CD tools and a basic understanding of DevOps practices.

• Good analytical skills and the ability to work methodically.

• Programming and scripting experience.

It would also be great if you had experience of:  

• Familiarity with Cloud Platforms – GCP, AWS, Azure.

• Basic knowledge of Containerization – Kubernetes/Docker.

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools e.g., Chef, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet.

• ITIL or Service management experience.

• Exposure to Agile work practices.

• Basic understanding of Application Lifecycle Management and Software Delivery Lifecycle.

• Knowledge of disaster recovery planning and high availability design.

• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.

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.

As a function we're committed to the principles of Flexible Working and want to find the right person for the job. We'll welcome applications from candidates interested in working the role as a job share or applying for the role on reduced hours.

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

• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Our continued commitment to helping Britain prosper means that as a colleague you will be empowered to make a difference to customers, businesses and communities. Together we have a key role to play in shaping the bank of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you will continue to have opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We are focused on creating a values-led culture and our approach to inclusion and diversity means that we all can make a real difference, together.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.

We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks.  We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. 

We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.