DevOps - SRE Lead EngineerLocation: London
Salary: £100,657 - £118,420
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office a week.
About this opportunity We're the Business and Client Banking division, part of Commercial Banking and we work across several business platform areas. Our purpose is to create and deliver products that enable clients to grow their businesses. Those businesses provide services that millions of customers across the UK rely upon, day-to-day and especially in their time of need.
What you'll do 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.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.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 EnvoyHelmfile & Helm Charts writing comprehensive helm charts from scratchSRE 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 testsNetwork L3-7 management, DNS, transport security with PKI lifecycle managementData Migration Tools & Knowledge of DB Schema lifecyclesAzure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates & Blueprints & Bicep or TerraformAzure DevOps or Harness.io with hands-on designing code-based CI/CD PipelinesChaos Engineering, Day-2 Ops, Resiliency and Disaster Recovery Planning and executionWhat you'll need A lead engineer within the field of SRE or DevOps with exceptional understanding of SRE & DevOpsDeep 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 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 GitTechnical architecture and Microservice design principles.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'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.Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more! 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.
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