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End Date Saturday 18 May 2024Salary Range \xc2\xa353,613 - \xc2\xa359,570Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working Summary As a member of our SRE team, your main responsibilities will be to work alongside our 24x7 shift teams, using tooling such as Dynatrace, Splunk and ThousandEyes to ensure we maintain great observability across our services, and to contribute to quick service recovery for our customers. You\xe2\x80\x99ll help define and implement Service Level Objectives and assist in automating Operational Readiness into CI/CD pipelines so that our engineering teams can be confident in delivering fault-tolerant, reliable and robust features to our customers. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also play a key role in contributing to blameless post mortems, ensuring we understand underlying root causes and drive through software solutions and automation to prevent recurrence and remove manual work.Site Reliability EngineerSalary : \xc2\xa353,613 to \xc2\xa359,570Location: LondonHours: Full timeWorking Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least 2 days per week or 40% of our time in our London office.About this OpportunityOur Digital channels are at the heart of the Bank, servicing over 80% of our customers interactions with us. We\xe2\x80\x99re transforming our ways of working, putting our customers at the heart of what we do, using great technology to provide an excellent customer experience.Our Digital Channels are under-going major surgery as we re-architect our technology into a modern, cloud agnostic, micro service-based platform. This is a fantastic opportunity help shape our capability as we build a new team to support and operate this new platform. Whilst that exciting new stuff gets built and delivered, we still have a huge responsibility to run our existing platforms and you\xe2\x80\x99ll play a major role in providing a great service to our customers.Here\xe2\x80\x99s where you\xe2\x80\x99ll make a differenceAs a member of our SRE team, your main responsibilities will be to work alongside our 24x7 shift teams, using tooling such as Dynatrace, Splunk and ThousandEyes to ensure we maintain great observability across our services, and to contribute to quick service recovery for our customers.You\xe2\x80\x99ll help define and implement Service Level Objectives and assist in automating Operational Readiness into CI/CD pipelines so that our engineering teams can be confident in delivering fault-tolerant, reliable and robust features to our customers.You\xe2\x80\x99ll also play a key role in contributing to blameless post mortems, ensuring we understand underlying root causes and drive through software solutions and automation to prevent recurrence and remove manual work.You\xe2\x80\x99ll provide technical direction and mentorship to our support engineering teams, helping them to manage business critical applications that underpin billions of pounds worth of payments every day.You\xe2\x80\x99ll have a strong sense of ownership and integrity and enjoy working with both Business and Engineering teams.What you\xe2\x80\x99ll needThis is a technical role, so naturally, we\xe2\x80\x99re looking for people with experience of the technologies we currently use and will use in the future.A good grasp of the key concepts of Site Reliability EngineeringKnowledge of cloud platforms using Kubernetes and related technologies.Knowledge of, and experience of working with following technologies:Dynatrace, Splunk, GitHubIBM Websphere Application Server, WAS Liberty and related technologies.IBM Datapower and APICRed Hat Linux / AIX.You\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to work independently, use initiative, without management oversight.Work with partner teams and third parties in the UK, and worldwide.A passion to automate everything, everywhere!With that out of the way, and obviously those techy skills are important, perhaps of more importance is what else you can bring to the party. A great problem solver, curiosity, someone who can work under their own initiative, but loves collaborating across teams. Someone who will challenge the status quo, not afraid to speak up and give their opinions. Someone who shares our values and shares their skills and knowledge to help others grow.About working for usOur focus is to ensure that we\xe2\x80\x99re 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 organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.And it\xe2\x80\x99s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups.We\xe2\x80\x99re disability confident. So, if you\xe2\x80\x99d 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 bonusShare schemes including free sharesBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping28 days holiday with bank holidays on topA range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policiesReady for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?Apply today and find out moreAt 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\xe2\x80\x99re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Lloyds Banking Group