Site Reliability Engineer

BAE Systems
Leeds, United Kingdom
2 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Part-time / full-time
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
£ 109K

Job location

Remote
Leeds, United Kingdom

Tech stack

JavaScript
Microsoft Windows
API
Azure
Bash
Cloud Computing
Cloud Engineering
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Groovy
Python
Modular Design
Node.js
Powershell
Systems Development Life Cycle
Reliability Engineering
Cloud Services
Software Engineering
Spinnaker
Google Cloud Platform
Mttr
Reliability of Systems
Kubernetes
Api Design
Terraform
Dynatrace
Api Management
Jenkins

Job description

Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Public Cloud Platform Location: Halifax, Leeds or Manchester, We're looking for a Lead Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to join our Public Cloud Platform , supporting both GCP and Azure . In this role you'll help strengthen observability, reliability, and operational excellence across our cloud estate-enabling our ambition to become the UK's leading FinTech.

You'll work closely with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to embed SRE principles, lead a team of up to 15 SREs, and champion a culture of learning, automation and continuous improvement.

What You'll Be Doing

Lead, coach and develop a high-performing SRE team, fostering autonomy, inclusion and continuous improvement.

Partner with Product Owners and Engineering Leads to embed reliability into roadmaps, backlogs and delivery decisions.

Apply SRE principles (SLIs, SLOs, error budgets) to ensure our services remain highly reliable, performant and scalable.

Drive improvements in observability-across metrics, logs, traces and events-ensuring services are observable by design.

Use Dynatrace as the primary observability platform for significant dashboards and customer-centric alerting.

Own Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD-based environments, implementing enhancements and responding to operational change.

Lead coordination of incident response and root cause analysis, supporting teams through major incidents, post-incident reviews and prevention of recurrence.

Collaborate with multi-disciplinary engineering teams to remove technical impediments, reduce toil and improve service operability.

Contribute hands-on engineering where needed, validating technical decisions and guiding best practice.

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Requirements

Proven experience applying SRE practices within Azure, GCP, or both.

Strong understanding of SLIs, SLOs, error budgets , and how to use these to guide product and engineering decisions.

Experience ensuring reliability of production services, including availability, performance and recoverability.

Hands-on or leadership experience in incident and problem management , focused on reducing MTTR and avoiding repeat issues.

Background in software engineering or cloud engineering, with good understanding of modern SDLC practices.

Practical experience with DevOps, CI/CD and automation to improve service reliability.

Experience improving observability on complex, distributed systems.

Ability to use data to influence prioritisation and balance reliability with feature delivery.

Collaboration and communication skills, working effectively with product, engineering and platform teams.

Experience mentoring engineers and promoting inclusive, supportive team culture.

Desirable Skills

Certifications or strong experience with Google Cloud Platform and/or Microsoft Azure .

Knowledge of Kubernetes, compute services, API management and large-scale distributed systems.

Experience with Terraform , Jenkins , or equivalent configuration/pipeline tooling.

Ability to write and maintain scripts or code in languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell or Groovy.

Solid grasp of cloud networking, security, and systems built around APIs.

Experience with Infrastructure as Code, modular design and scalable automation patterns.

About YouYou're someone who:

Is passionate about building resilient, observable, customer-focused platforms.

Enjoys coaching others, sharing knowledge and shaping engineering culture.

Looks for opportunities to remove toil and introduce automation.

Thrives in collaborative, multi-functional environments.

Adopts new tools, technologies and modern engineering approaches.

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Benefits & conditions

Salary: £90,440- £106,400

Working Pattern: Hybrid (2 days in office per week)

About the OpportunityAt Lloyds Banking Group, our purpose is to Help Britain Prosper. As we continue redefining into a modern, innovative, purposeful organisation, we're investing heavily in cloud, automation and engineering excellence across our platforms., What You'll Get in ReturnWe're committed to building a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can grow, thrive and make a meaningful impact. As part of LBG, you'll also receive:

A competitive salary and performance-related bonus

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Generous pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle

Hybrid working model and family-friendly policies

Access to wellbeing support, training and career development

About the company

Additional InformationAt 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 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., Halian | Managed Services, Recruitment Agency & Contract Staffing Our client is hiring experienced Senior Site Reliability Engineers in the UK or Germany to join a global engineering team supporting a high-availability, Java-based platform used by customers worldwide. This role is for true SREs - not DevOps engineers. If your passion is..., Job Description Why Greencore? Following the combination with Bakkavor in January 2026, we're one of the UK's leading creators of convenience food, driven by a simple purpose: to make every day taste better. As a vibrant and fast-moving business, we're proud to employ..., Principal Engineer (Cloud) Consultancy -AWS Azure Terraform Kubernetes Leeds City Centre with Hybrid Working (2 days a week in the office) £80,000£90,000 + Benefits WRK digital is exclusively partnering with a leading digital consultancy to recruit aPrincipal Engineer...

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