Azure SRE Engineer Halifax, England
Lloyds Banking Group
Full Time
Halifax, England
35656 - 44570 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description
End Date
Tuesday 14 March 2023
Salary Range
£35,656 - £44,570Agile Working Options
Job Description Summary
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK’s largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper.We’re on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help do it. Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.
Job Description
Azure SRE Engineer
Lloyds Banking Group
Salary & Benefits: £41,715 - £46,350 (depending on experience)
We'll also give you a broad remuneration package which includes:
- A performance share bonus
- A generous pension contribution
- A flex cash pot you can adjust to suit your lifestyle
- Private health cover
- A minimum of 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Various share schemes including free shares
Where does this role sit
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's largest Digital, Retail and Commercial Bank with a focus on Helping Britain Prosper.
We're on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help do it. Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.
Our Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for an experienced and passionate Azure Cloud SRE with strong hands-on development experience. As a Cloud SRE you'll be an active member of a cloud-focused team of engineers - working on one of the Group's flagship projects to deliver a strategic platform on Azure Cloud Platform (depending on your skills and experience) that will enable the business to realize the next generation of services that form the Bank's vision for 2023 and beyond.
We're on the mission to build the bank of the future, and we need your help do it. Continuing our extensive transformation programme, we're redefining what a bank is from the inside out. Our technology, our culture, and our mind-set is changing to craft a true engineering-led organisation.
Our Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for an experienced and passionate Azure Cloud SRE with strong hands-on development experience. As a Cloud SRE you'll be an active member of a cloud-focused team of engineers - working on one of the Group's flagship projects to deliver a strategic platform on Azure Cloud Platform (depending on your skills and experience) that will enable the business to realize the next generation of services that form the Bank's vision for 2023 and beyond.
The role will have accountabilities including:
- Delivering against Azure and Cloud-technology roadmaps
- Collaboratively working with other engineering teams to build and release enterprise-class solutions that progress the programme's roadmap
- Maintaining, supporting & improving our Public Cloud platforms using SRE principles including some 24x7 standby requirements.
What you'd get involved with:
- Continuous iteration of our Infrastructure as Code & pipeline based product catalogue, 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, utilising new & existing Cloud products
What's needed to be considered for this job?
Essential:
- Strong DevOps understanding, "Infrastructure as Code" using technology such as Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, ARM templates, blueprints etc.
- Experience in developing DevOps pipelines to deliver automation of infrastructure or applications.
- Good understanding in four or more Azure services such as Azure Kubernetes clusters , API management, Application gateway, Virtual machines, Virtual networks, Network security groups, load balancer, express route etc.
- Ability to write scripts in languages such as PowerShell, BASH, BICEP and so on
- You need to be experienced at solving problems and troubleshooting, fixing and resolving issues
Desirable:
- Experience working with a broad set of Public Cloud technologies and services.
- Good understanding of Cloud Security tools such as Microsoft Defender for cloud, Azure policies, Sentinel etc.
- Recent practical experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation.
- Demonstrates a passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills
- Training or certifications in any cloud platform, such as Azure, GCP, AWS
About you:
- Ability to work with architectural, business and other engineers to shape, design and engineer solutions.
- Ability to work with a team of engineers to deliver domain-owned deliverables and dependencies.
- Continuous curiosity to learn and develop themselves with industry best practice methods and tooling in the cloud function.
- Technology agnostic and are willing to adapt their approach in pursuit of the best solution.
What you'd get in return:
Offering you both opportunity and profile - we'll provide you with a diverse, energising and lively environment that focuses on equal opportunity and real career progression.
We'll take your personal and professional development very seriously and enable you to make a genuine difference to millions throughout your career with us.
Together we make it possible.
So, if you have a desire to work in a challenging Engineering role in a dynamic environment with quality at the heart of thinking, whilst gaining skills and experience within a friendly and motivated team then get in touch, we'd love to hear from you!
We're flexible on location across any hub location. As a team we have all embraced working from home. We fully support the new developing workstyles, taking a flexible approach to 'future of work'.
We know that a 9-5 doesn't work for everyone so can be flexible to a variety of working patterns. Whilst we can't accommodate every option, we're happy to consider any request.
We'll ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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'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.
