DevOps - SRE Lead Engineer

Job Title: DevOps – SRE Lead Engineer     
Location: London
Salary: £100,657 - £118,420
Hours:  Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in office a week.

About us

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

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.  It is up to the leads build on that desire and passion.

• 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. A further stage will be to apply those skills to GCP, but the immediate need is with Azure.

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 Envoy

• Helmfile & Helm Charts writing comprehensive helm charts from scratch

• SRE 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 tests

• Network L3-7 management, DNS, transport security with PKI lifecycle management

• Data Migration Tools & Knowledge of DB Schema lifecycles

• Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates & Blueprints & Bicep or Terraform

• Azure DevOps or Harness.io with hands-on designing code-based CI/CD Pipelines

• Chaos Engineering, Day-2 Ops, Resiliency and Disaster Recovery Planning and execution

What you’ll need

• A lead engineer within the field of SRE or DevOps with exceptional understanding of SRE & DevOps and can explain in critical detail to your mentees

• Deep 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 (but not all!) 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 Git

• Technical 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 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.

Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more!