Google Site Reliability Engineer, Lloyds
Public Cloud
£47.8-53.1k
+ A performance‑based share bonus
Retail and commercial bank
Job no longer available
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
£47.8-53.1k
+ A performance‑based share bonus
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- You enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and improving systems over time
- You work collaboratively, communicate clearly and proactively share knowledge
- You’re comfortable working in various fields, adapting your approach, and continuously learning as technology evolves
- You value inclusion, teamwork and mentorship, and you enjoy contributing to community‑based learning and capability uplift across the platform
- Strong DevOps and cloud‑engineering background, including IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Harness, Azure DevOps or similar)
- Experience working with a broad range of public‑cloud technologies
- Ability to write, update and maintain scripts (Python, Groovy, PowerShell, Bash)
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles
- Excellent problem‑solving skills and structured logical thinking
- Experience with observability and monitoring tools
Desirable
- Experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation
- Certifications in GCP or another cloud provider (e.g., Azure)
- Transferable experience from sysadmin, software engineering or other technical subject areas
- Technology‑agnostic approach and willingness to adopt the best tool for the job
- Curiosity and aim to learn continuously, applying emerging cloud best practices
What the job involves
- Our Cloud Platform team is a well‑established, solution‑focused engineering community, delivering one of the UK’s largest technology transformations
- We're modernising the bank’s next‑generation cloud platform and partnering closely with product teams to enable secure, scalable and compliant cloud solutions across: Analytics, GenAI/ML, Databases, Storage, Serverless HPC, Application workloads
- Our engineering work spans product curation, data‑platform capability, data segregation, automation, quality assurance, and embedding AI into our workflows. Everything we build aims to empower engineering teams, improve the developer experience and raise delivery standards across the Group
- We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with strong experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
- You’ll collaborate with Engineering Leads and Product Owners to shape and deliver our platform roadmap
- You’ll help plan and prioritise work, automate processes using both traditional and GenAI tooling, remove impediments, and contribute to our continuous improvement culture
- You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in technical communities, work with internal customers across multiple domains, and support early‑career engineers through role‑modelling and mentoring
- In this role, you’ll spend around half your time resolving production incidents and ensuring operational health, and the other half improving our platform through engineering and automation. Participation in an out‑of‑hours support rota is required
- Core technology areas for this role include:
- Google Cloud Platform: Analytics, AI, Databases, Serverless products
- Engineering fundamentals: Networking, Security, IAM, Platform Engineering
- Tooling: Terraform, CI/CD (Harness or GitHub Actions), Python, Git workflows, Backstage
- Security & Policy‑as‑Code: Open Policy Agent, Organisation Policy, Security Health Analytics, Wiz
- Observability: Dynatrace
- Apply hands‑on engineering to maintain Infrastructure‑as‑Code and CI/CD‑based services
- Deliver enhancements that improve reliability, scalability and customer experience
- Reduce toil and improve efficiency through automation and new tooling adoption
- Drive operational perfection across monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, cost optimisation and reliability
- Be responsible for the health of production and non‑production environments and lead incident response activities
- Investigate and fix service‑related issues using code‑first engineering approaches
- Contribute to Agile ceremonies and support continuous team improvement
- Provide clear and regular communication of incident status to stakeholders
- Apply SRE practices and introduce chaos engineering where appropriate to strengthen resilience
Application process
- End Date: Tuesday 17 February 2026
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy, but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
On top of this, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on "FinTech Action Labs" to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. The company continues to enhance its online and mobile services (it is the UK's biggest mobile bank), as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
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