Site Reliability Engineer

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in a Bristol office

About this opportunity

A great opportunity has arisen within the Consumer Servicing and Engagement Platform for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE). Our Cloud SRE Team is looking for an expert and passionate Engineer with strong hands-on development experience. As a Cloud SRE you’ll be an active and leading member of a cloud-focused team of engineers – working on one of the Group’s flagship projects to run and maintain a set of products and services on the Google Cloud Platform that will enable the business to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank’s vision for 2023 and beyond!

Here’s where you’ll make a difference:

You have can-do attitude, curiosity about exploring technologies beyond your core skills, willing to learn, highly motivated and with a passion for working with people, working in a strong collaborative way to drive efforts to create, build, support and improve our applications. You also enjoy working closely with the product and other engineering teams with lots of exciting new challenges. You'll be a core contributor to ensure good quality and engineering practices are followed in accordance with engineering transformation strategy.

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’ll need

We believe that people don't fit neatly into roles, and we value everyone's individual skills, experience, and knowledge — it's what makes you amazing!

• As a minimum to be considered, we would like to see demonstrated core experience in at least three of:
• Experience working with a broad set of GCP products (or extensive experience with another Public Cloud platform, such as Azure or AWS)
• Strong DevOps understanding, including experience of Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, such as Terraform and Jenkins, or alternatives such as Azure DevOps
• Ability to quickly understand, update and write code in languages such as Python, Groovy, BASH, PowerShell
• A strong understanding of Cloud security and networking
• Experience in problem-solving, able to demonstrate logical thinking and excellent troubleshooting skills.
• Demonstrate a passion to continue to learn and develop your engineering skills.
• Strong understanding and demonstrable use of source control practice and collaborative working as part of an engineering team

Experience with at least one of:

• Recent practical experience using SDKs and APIs to deliver automation.
• Certifications in GCP or another cloud platform, such as Azure, AWS
• Candidates with less direct experience in cloud engineering, who can demonstrate strong skills in other areas such as sysadmin, software engineering or other technology/engineering disciplines who also are able to quickly adapt and pick up new skills will also be considered.

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.

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