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JOB TITLE: Senior Site Reliability Engineer
SALARY: £70,929 - £74,870
LOCATION: Edinburgh
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh location.
About this opportunity:
Our mission is to help customers feel confident and in control of their finances, now and into the future. We’re building a new future for financial wellbeing, helping customers understand the big picture and making it easy for them to protect what matters! Our services are accessible for everyone, no matter what their income is or how comfortable they are with financial jargon, and we work hard to make sure we’re there for customers in the moments that matter! We’re bold and we love to experiment. We’re not afraid to try out new ways of working and we encourage teams to be flexible and adaptive.
Working with our Edinburgh based team means you are part of an established Release team that delivers value to our customers through our digital channels.
This is an excellent opportunity for a driven candidate who can provide hands-on engineering skills and expertise to a digital Release team. You will be passionate and experienced in ensuring our route-to-live (RTL) environments are reliable, and deploy code safely through RTL and to customers.
Day to day, you'll be:
Managing Route To Live (RTL) environments: Oversee our RTL environments and deploy code through RTL and into Production, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal disruption to service.
Creating & Delivering Implementation Plans: Develop detailed plans for code deployment and system upgrades, coordinating with various teams to ensure successful execution.
Continuous Improvement Initiatives: Identify and implement improvements to existing processes and systems across RTL environments and production.
Problem Analysis: Analyse problems in RTL environments and production, and find the best technical solution to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
Strategic Alignment: Deliver changes by working with established strategic systems and processes, aligning with organizational goals.
About us
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…
What you’ll need
Technical Expertise: An Engineering background with strong understanding of change delivery to digital products, including Release Engineering, managing RTL environments and CI/CD tooling, version control, and deploying code into Production. Experience with Linux, Bash and Kubernetes will be beneficial.
CI/CD Tooling: Proven experience with modern DevOps and CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, UrbanCode Deploy, Harness, Unleash, and ServiceNow will be beneficial.
Cloud Orchestration: Experience in one or more cloud platforms (preferably GCP) and deep understanding of containerisation through Docker and Kubernetes.
Cost & Service Optimisation: Track record in cost and service optimisation, ensuring capacity demands can be met and resource consumption aligns with budget forecasting.
Development and Coaching: Ability to grow your own capabilities and develop the skills of others in the team through training and coaching.
Change Delivery Experience: Proven ability to deliver change to digital channels.
Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical skills to find and deliver the best technical solutions to specified problems across our systems and processes.
Collaboration: the ability to collaborate with fellow SREs, Engineers, Integrators and Service teams to support the definition of roadmaps, technical designs and change delivery.
Forward-Thinking Attitude: identifying new technologies, tools and approaches to help continually improve standards, quality and reliability of change delivery.
Why Lloyds Banking Group
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
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 were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. 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
Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
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 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’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
We're changing financial services, and we want you to join us.
We're the UK's largest financial services group, with our 25 million customers and a history stretching back more than 300 years.
We pride ourselves on creating a great environment for colleagues to work in, one which is inclusive and driven by our values. This is critical to our business success as we know that colleagues who can show up to work as themselves are those that bring their best.
We're an inclusive and open organisation with a scale that creates a vast range of roles and opportunities. We offer a plenty of options for continual personal growth and you'll be part of a culture which embraces diversity of talent, creativity, skills and thinking among our teams.
Workplace Initiatives
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Opportunities for people returning from a career break |
Yes our Returner opportunities offer a career path to candidates with a 18 month year break in their career’ with ‘Yes, our Returner opportunities are aimed at candidates who have had a 18 month or more career break |
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Leadership development programmes? |
Yes |
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Mentoring programmes? |
Yes |
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Coaching programmes? |
Yes |
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Employee-led diversity networks? |
Yes |
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Internal women’s networking groups? |
Yes |
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Open to discussing flexible work arrangements at interview stage? |
Yes |
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No. of weeks paid maternity leave at full salary: |
20 weeks based on full pay + 19 weeks at the current statutory maternity pay rate |
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Minimum weeks tenure required to be eligible for paid maternity leave: |
No qualifying service period |
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No. of weeks paid paternity leave at full salary: |
6 weeks |
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Minimum tenure required to be eligible for paid paternity leave: |
No qualifying service period |
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Gender pay gap reporting information (insert year) (UK): 2022 |
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Average pay gap: |
30.5% |
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Median pay gap: |
33.6% |
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Average bonus gap: |
62.5% |
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Median bonus gap: |
69.5% |
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Signatory of the UK Women in Finance Charter? |
Yes |
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Targets to raise the number of women in leadership? |
Yes |
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Targets to raise the number of BAME individuals in leadership? |
Yes |
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Listed in the Bloomberg Diversity & Inclusion Index? |
Yes |
Flexible Working Policy
We take pride in being a leader in flexibility and offer a wide array of flexible working options for different circumstances. How you work and the options available will depend on the role you're in, but we aim to offer the flexibility needed by everyone.
For many of our office-based roles, we work in hybrid ways, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. Dependent on your role, other flexible options may be available, such as part-time or compressed hours, complete home-working or job share. ‘Find out how flexible working can work for you’.
Flexible Working Policy
We take pride in being a leader in flexibility and offer a wide array of flexible working options for different circumstances. How you work and the options available will depend on the role you're in, but we aim to offer the flexibility needed by everyone.
For many of our office-based roles, we work in hybrid ways, which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites. Dependent on your role, other flexible options may be available, such as part-time or compressed hours, complete home-working or job share. ‘Find out how flexible working can work for you’.
Returner opportunities
Returning to work after time away can be challenging. That’s why we offer Returner opportunities that are designed to assist people returning to work after a career break of 18 months or more and our roles are permanent from the day one. Whether you’ve been away from work due to parenthood, illness, or even travel, we’re looking forward to hearing from you as we continue to grow!
What can you expect?
Coming back into the world of work after a career break can be really daunting – and we therefore know how important flexibility is. We’re very aware that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t always doable, so will happily have the discussion about different working patterns with you.
These roles have been created with your career break in mind, making sure we are there to support you in your transition back to work. You will be brought in on a permanent contract and given meaningful work from day one. Plus, you’ll be paired with a buddy or mentor from your team to help guide you along the way. You’ll also benefit from being part of the wider Returners Community and have the chance to create a personal development plan that works for you.
Who are we looking for?
While banking or professional services experience is desirable, especially for some roles, we care more about the transferable skills you can bring to our business.
Testimonials
I had a good network of colleagues already working for Lloyds Banking Group, who were all very passionate about their roles - so it felt the right choice for me and gave me the courage to apply for a Business Analyst role through the Returners. It was a seamless recruitment experience and I was offered a role in the work I wanted to do.
Olufunke Oladinni, Business Analyst
I love being a Project Manager, and I can’t recommend the Lloyds Banking Group Returners enough. It’ll springboard your career, giving you the best opportunity to relaunch yourself and maximise your full potential.
Justin Pierce, Project Manager