OpenShift Cloud SRE Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh, Halifax, London, Manchester, or any of our main sites across the UK – We’re happy with home working the majority of the time, however, you’ll need to be in the office 1 or 2 days per week.
Salary & Benefits: £52,912 to £76,470 per annum (location dependent), plus annual personal bonus, 15% employer pension contribution, 4% flexible cash pot, private medical insurance, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays. We also offer flexible working hours, and agile working practices flexibility to suit your lifestyle and ensure a good work-life balance.
Who are Lloyds Banking Group and where does this role sit?
We’re on a mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help to do it! Continuing our extensive transformation program, we’re redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mindset are changing to craft a true engineering-led organization.
What will I focus on in this role?
Our new OpenShift Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for an experienced and passionate SRE with strong hands-on infrastructure and development experience. As a Cloud SRE, you’ll be an active and leading member of a cloud-focused team of engineers working within a mission-critical operational environment. Working on one of the Group’s flagship hosting platforms, RedHat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) will be critical for the success of some of the bank’s key customer journeys over the next 3-5 years.
Specific activities which you’ll be responsible for include things like;
- Contributing and delivering against OCP and Cloud-technology roadmaps
- Collaboratively working with other engineering teams and 3rd party suppliers to build and release enterprise-class solutions that progress the OCP roadmap.
- Maintaining, supporting & improving our Cloud platforms using SRE principles including some 24×7 standby requirements.
- Continuous iteration of our Infrastructure as Code & pipeline based product catalog, responding to change, implementing enhancements & improving the platform reliability
- Maintaining the evergreen nature of our platform, ensuring our platform remains current
- Investigating, fixing, and removing service issues with an engineering mindset
- Implementing further automation and reducing toil, utilizing new & existing Cloud products
What do we need to see from applicants?
- Strong Engineering background and prepared to work in an operations environment, using experience from support activities to standardize, automate and improve the platform experience.
- Strong dev ops understanding, “Infrastructure as Code” using technology such as Terraform, Chef and Jenkins, and Ansible.
- Strong experience working with a broad set of Infrastructure and Cloud technologies and services.
- Good understanding of hosting platforms, such as VMWare, and Enterprise services (Networks, Security Tooling, UAM, etc)
- Awareness and experience with container hosting services, Kubernetes, and related tools.
- Ability to write scripts in languages such as PowerShell, BASH, Python, and Groovy
- A strong understanding of Cloud Security and working within an enterprise compliance framework.
- You need to be experienced at solving problems and troubleshooting, fixing, and resolving issues – owning incidents and problems through to route cause.
- Demonstrates a passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills
- Strong experience using Kubernetes and associated products (Service Mesh, EFK, etc)
What can I expect in Return?
We’re dedicated to giving you opportunities and support to develop you both professionally and personally to optimize your potential! As a new colleague to the team, you’ll join us on our journey to build a 21st-century bank that reflects modern Britain and craft an inclusive culture where all colleagues feel encouraged and valued. We’re committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We support the principles of agile working and equal opportunity and are happy to consider flexible working arrangements.
Together we’ll make it possible!
At 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 mean you’ll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We’re focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
