SRE Lead Engineer, Lloyds
DevOps
£100.7-118.4k
+ Bonus + Shares
2 days a week in office
Retail and commercial bank
Open for applications
Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£100.7-118.4k
+ Bonus + Shares
2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- A lead engineer within the field of SRE or DevOps with exceptional understanding of SRE & DevOps and can explain in critical detail to your mentees
- Deep Kubernetes experience (Istio AKS an advantage)
- Ideally coming from a software engineering or exceptional scripting skill background and have moved into SRE/DevOps while gaining a wider understanding of application ecosystems
- Experience programming in at least two (but not all!) of the following languages: Java, Groovy, Scala, Python, Go, C++, JavaScript, .Net, PowerShell or Bash/Shell
- Knowledge of Azure or Dev cloud platforms
- Very strong expertise in DevOps tools like Azure DevOps, GitHub Sonar, Nexus, and Git
- Technical architecture and Microservice design principles
What the job involves
- The team focuses on Site Reliability, Platform, DevOps, and Systems engineering, to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems on public cloud
- This is a hybrid role, first leading a team, mentoring, coaching, and developing peers across the teams in the lab, while the other major part of the role will be acting as a completely hands-on Lead DevOps/SRE to lead by example
- Our engineers are passionate about ensuring the services, both internal and external have unwavering reliability, uptime appropriate to users' needs, resiliency, architectural simplicity, as well as continually seeking to find improvements. It is up to the leads build on that desire and passion
- Opportunities to work on complex challenges, while using expertise in coding, algorithms, complexity/forensic analysis, technical architecture, and various system design strategies to address those challenges
- Significant focus will be on optimising existing systems on Azure, building new Azure PaaS and IaaS solutions for services currently not running on Azure and eliminating manual work through automation wherever feasible. A further stage will be to apply those skills to GCP, but the immediate need is with Azure
- Opportunities where a ‘Lead’ will be expected to help;
- Production Kubernetes experience and debugging all services that run within the K8s ecosystem, including Istio service mesh with Envoy
- Helmfile & Helm Charts writing comprehensive helm charts from scratch
- SRE mentality (SLI, SLO & SLA) using Observability, Logging, Monitoring & Alerting ( Dynatrace)
- Docker and Container Management & Security scanning (e.g. Aquasec)
- DevOps tooling - Code Quality (SonarQube) & Artefact (NexusIQ/Artifacts) & Auto/Load tests
- Network L3-7 management, DNS, transport security with PKI lifecycle management
- Data Migration Tools & Knowledge of DB Schema lifecycles
- Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates & Blueprints & Bicep or Terraform
- Azure DevOps or Harness.io with hands-on designing code-based CI/CD Pipelines
- Chaos Engineering, Day-2 Ops, Resiliency and Disaster Recovery Planning and execution
Salary benchmarks
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 – including for its handling of PPI complaints in 2015, and the 2009 European Commission ruling that forced it to part ways with TSB – but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
Of the company’s 26 million customers, over 18 million of them are online, making it the largest UK digital bank. 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 current 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.
Recently, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on FinTech Action Labs (a FinTech accelerator programme) to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. As well as investment in digital transformation and AI, the company is enhancing its wealth product and corporate banking offerings, as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
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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 values
- We trust each other to achieve more together. We listen to, and are honest with, each other. We take things on, see them through, and give others the space and support to do the same.
- We put people first, and empower our colleagues to go the extra mile for our customers and communities. We treat everyone as individuals, and we don’t put processes ahead of real people’s needs.
- We embrace our differences to value everyone. We seek out diverse perspectives in order to learn about people’s different and changing needs, and to see how we can best support these.
- We’re bold and take action to drive the best outcomes for our customers. We champion ideas that move us forward, and we innovate for better results. We challenge things that aren’t right and make it our job to change them.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
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Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive, not founder)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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