Site Reliability Engineer

Job Description

End Date Wednesday 02 November 2022 Salary Range £52,912 - £66,140 We support agile workingclick here for more information on agile working options.Agile Working Options Other Agile Working Arrangements / Open to Discussion Job Description Summary . Job DescriptionLocationEdinburgh based role (flexible/remote working available with regular visits to the Edinburgh office).Salary & Benefits£52,912 - £72,500 base salary, plus annual personal bonus, up to 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, agile working practices, and regularhome working.Our MissionLloyds Banking Group is the UKs largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper. We are on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help do it. Continuing our extensive transformation programme, weare redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set are changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.Working within one of our newly formed Platform teams, Site Reliability Engineers will use their strong DevOps/SRE knowledge and development skills to build resilience and observability into our Pension products. Working in one of our product teams madeup of Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Quality Engineers, Software Engineers and SREs, engineers will have the opportunity to influence design, development and application support decisions as well as apply best practices to drive continuous improvement.Our tech stack today includes:

• React
• Node
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Jenkins
• Private/Public Cloud
• Dynatrace
• Splunk, ELK, Grafana, Prometheus

About the role:The Workplace Pensions Platform is rapidly growing its SRE team to support the growth and optimisation of our digital applications.The digital teams in our Pensions Platform are passionate about improving support to our customers throughout their financial lives, with clear, straightforward customer journeys, helping them to make the right decisions for their long-term Saving, Investment& Retirement needs.As a Site Reliability Engineer within the Keep Me on Track lab you will be joining us at an exciting time as we transform the services we offer our Corporate Pensions customers. As one of the early joiners in the SRE area you will help craft our strategyand drive high reliability into our systems, by mentoring the engineers in our feature teams to produce efficient code with a service engineering focus. As someone who is passionate about SRE, you will also act as an advocate and guide engineering teams inthe adoption of best principles and practices.What is needed to be considered for this jobEssential criteria:

• Previous experience working in a Site Reliability Engineer capacity or other similar role.
• Demonstrable experience applying SRE and DevOps principles in a similar environment.
• Ability to read and understand code in a modern programming language and not be afraid of writing a few lines yourself.
• Understand and able to communicate complex technical problems to non-technical partners at different levels within the organisation.
• Stakeholder management experience and the ability to guide and consult engineering teams
• Experience of common software engineering methodologies such as Agile, Scrum.
• Experience of modern software engineering tooling such as GitHub, Confluence, JIRA.
• Ability to identify reliability risks and opportunities for automation.
• Understanding of multi-tier system architectures and ability to debug and identify points of failure.
• Proactive and curious approach to engineering problems.
• Interest in contributing to SRE communities and forums within the organisation

Desirable skills & experience:

• Experience of applying SRE principles such as:
  • Service Level Management (SLIs, SLOs and SLAs)
  • Blameless Post Mortems
  • TOIL Reduction via Automation
  • Capacity and Cost Planning
  • Chaos Engineering
  • Observability
  • Production Readiness Reviews
• Container-based skills such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience in a team supporting a 24x7 application (pager duty or on-call)
• Public Cloud exposure and certifications
• Experience of observability tooling (such as Dynatrace, Kibana, Elastic, Splunk)

So what can we offer you in returnWhatever your aspiration, you can also expect excellent benefits, personal development, and a career that is enriching and full of opportunity. You will also receive a package that includes: private medical insurance, discretionary bonus, various share plans,a pension where we contribute up to 15%. 30 days holiday, plus 9 bank holidays and cash sum of 4% which you can exchange for a variety of benefits, or simply take the cash.Our flexible work options mean your work/life balance can be preserved while fully paid training and certification programmes ensure your skills remain fresh.We are an equal opportunities employer and are delighted to receive applications from people of all backgrounds to join our diverse team. If you have particular needs regarding working patterns, childcare, or anything else we can do to accommodate you, pleasedont shy away from talking to us - were here to support you and develop your career and your happiness is of the utmost importance to us.We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact usto request accommodation. Our continued dedication to helping Britain recover means that as a colleague yo