Private Cloud SRE Manager

JOB TITLE:
Private Cloud SRE Manager

SALARY:
£70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S):
Leeds or Manchester

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 locations noted above.

About this Opportunity:

Our Private Cloud SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) team is looking for a passionate and experienced engineer to help run and evolve one of the Group's most critical platforms. As a Private Cloud SRE, you'll be a key contributor to the stability, performance, and scalability of services that support the Bank's digital transformation and long-term technology vision.

You'll work hands-on with container platforms, VMware infrastructure, and observability tooling to ensure our services are resilient and efficient. You'll lead and participate in post-mortems, drive automation, and continuously improve the platform through engineering-led solutions. This role also involves working in Agile environments, collaborating across multiple teams and disciplines to deliver high-quality outcomes at pace.

What You'll Do

• Support and enhance a wide range of platform technologies, including VMware infrastructure, container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes, OpenShift), databases, and applications.
• Use Infrastructure as Code to manage environments and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve observability using tools such as Dynatrace, ensuring proactive monitoring and alerting.
• Lead and contribute to post-mortems to identify and implement long-term fixes.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across the platform stack, including infrastructure, networking, storage, databases, and applications.
• Work in Agile teams, collaborating with engineers, architects, and product owners across the organisation.
• Identify and implement automation opportunities to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need

• Strong understanding of DevOps principles, including Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD.
• Experience with container platforms and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift).
• Hands-on experience with VMware technologies in a production environment.
• Familiarity with observability platforms, such as Dynatrace.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot across a broad range of platform technologies.
• Experience with either Linux or Windows operating systems.
• A mindset focused on continuous improvement and reducing manual steps through automation.

Any experience of these would be really useful

• Experience with automation tools and APIs for infrastructure management.
• Exposure to configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet).
• Leadership or mentoring experience in technical teams.
• Certifications in VMware or any major cloud provider (e.g., Azure, GCP, AWS).
• Background in system administration or software engineering with a strong aptitude for learning cloud-native practices.

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 performance-related bonus
• 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.