Public Cloud - Google SRE Engineer

Overview

End Date Tuesday 17 February 2026

Salary Range £47,790 - £53,100

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Job Description

Site Reliability Engineer – Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire

Salary & Benefits: £47,790-£53,100

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re driven by our purpose –
Helping Britain Prosper
. It guides the decisions we make, how we show up each day, and the impact we aim to have for customers, colleagues and communities!

The world is changing rapidly, and we’re evolving with it. This is an exciting time to join us as we modernise our technology platforms and reshape the future of financial services for the better.

Our Cloud Platform team is a well‑established, solution‑focused engineering community, delivering one of the UK’s largest technology transformations. We re modernising the bank’s next‑generation cloud platform and partnering closely with product teams to enable secure, scalable and compliant cloud solutions across:

• Analytics
• GenAI/ML
• Databases
• Storage
• Serverless HPC
• Application workloads

Our engineering work spans product curation, data‑platform capability, data segregation, automation, quality assurance, and embedding AI into our workflows. Everything we build aims to empower engineering teams, improve the developer experience and raise delivery standards across the Group.

We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer with strong experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

You’ll collaborate with Engineering Leads and Product Owners to shape and deliver our platform roadmap. You’ll help plan and prioritise work, automate processes using both traditional and GenAI tooling, remove impediments, and contribute to our continuous improvement culture.

You’ll also have the opportunity to participate in technical communities, work with internal customers across multiple domains, and support early‑career engineers through role‑modelling and mentoring.

• Google Cloud Platform: Analytics, AI, Databases, Serverless products
• Engineering fundamentals: Networking, Security, IAM, Platform Engineering
• Tooling: Terraform, CI/CD (Harness or Git Hub Actions), Python, Git workflows, Backstage
• Security & Policy‑as‑Code: Open Policy Agent, Organisation Policy, Security Health Analytics, Wiz
• Observability: Dynatrace

In this role, you’ll spend around half your time resolving production incidents and ensuring operational health, and the other half improving our platform through engineering and automation. Participation in an out‑of‑hours support rota is required.

You enjoy solving complex engineering challenges and improving systems over time. You work collaboratively, communicate clearly and proactively share knowledge. You’re comfortable working in various fields, adapting your approach, and continuously learning as technology evolves.

You value inclusion, teamwork and mentorship, and you enjoy contributing to community‑based learning and capability uplift across the platform.

• Apply hands‑on engineering to maintain Infrastructure‑as‑Code and CI/CD‑based services
• Deliver enhancements that improve reliability, scalability and customer experience
• Reduce toil and improve efficiency through automation and new tooling adoption
• Drive operational perfection across monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, cost optimisation and reliability
• Be responsible for the health of production and non‑production environments and lead incident response activities
• Investigate and fix service‑related issues using code‑first engineering approaches
• Contribute to Agile ceremonies and support continuous team improvement
• Provide clear and regular communication of incident status to stakeholders
• Apply SRE practices and introduce chaos engineering where appropriate to strengthen resilience

• Strong Dev Ops and cloud‑engineering background, including IaC (Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Harness, Azure Dev Ops or similar)
• Experience working with a broad range of public‑cloud…