Job Description

Azure Site Reliability Engineer

SALARY: \xc2\xa366,861 - \xc2\xa381,719 LOCATION: Halifax (We\'re flexible on location and can also consider candidates based out of Bristol, Manchester, Leeds & Edinburgh) HOURS: Full time WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days per week) in an office site

About this opportunity

Would you like to work on one of the Group\'s flagship projects to deliver strategic transformation on Azure Cloud Platform?

Here\'s how you\'ll make a difference:

Delivering against Azure and Cloud-technology roadmaps. Collaboratively working with other engineering teams to build and release enterprise-class solutions that progress the programme\'s roadmap. You\'ll Maintain, support & improve our Public Cloud platforms using SRE principles including some 24x7 standby requirements.

What you\'d get involved with:

Continuous iteration of our Infrastructure as a Code & pipeline based product catalogue, responding to change, implementing enhancements & improvements to the platform reliability.

You\'ll maintain the evergreen nature of our platform, ensuring our platform remains current.

You\'ll Investigate, fix and remove service issues with an engineering attitude, also implementing further automation and reducing toil, utilising new & existing Cloud products

About us

If you think all banks are the same, you\'d be wrong. We\'re an innovative, fast-changing business that\'s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that\'s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

Join us and, as well as making a difference to customers, you\'ll enjoy a fulfilling career where you\'re free to be yourself. Great colleagues, transforming workspaces, hybrid working and a wide variety of career opportunities - you\'ll find them all here.

What you\'ll need

Essential:

• Strong DevOps understanding, "Infrastructure as Code" using technology like Azure DevOps CI/ CD pipelines, ARM templates, blueprints etc.
• Experience in developing DevOps pipelines, delivering automation of infrastructure or applications.
• Strong understanding in four or more Azure services such as Azure Kubernetes clusters , API management, Application gateway, Virtual machines, Virtual networks, Network security groups, load balancer, express route etc.
• Ability to write scripts in languages such as PowerShell, BASH, BICEP and so on
• Experience with solving problems and troubleshooting, fixing and resolving issues

Desirable:

• Experience working with a broad set of Public Cloud technologies and services.
• Leadership experience including line management, squad leadership, mentoring and task management
• Strong understanding of Cloud Security tools such as Microsoft Defender for cloud, Azure policies, Sentinel etc.
• Strong understanding and proven use of source control practice as part of an engineering team
• Recent practical experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation.
• Demonstrates a passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills
• Training or certifications in any cloud platform; Azure, GCP, AWS

About you:

• Ability to work effectively with architectural, business and other specialists to shape, design and engineer solutions.
• Able to work with a team of engineers to deliver domain-owned deliverables and dependencies.
• Continuous curiosity to learn and develop themselves with industry standard methodology and tooling in the cloud function.
• Technology agnostic and willing to adapt their approach in pursuit of the best solution.

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 bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

Want to do amazing work, that\'s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

Lloyds Banking Group