About the Role
We’re looking for a Site Reliability Engineer to help build, scale and operate the platforms that power Curve’s products and services. You will support the infrastructure engineering teams rely on, improve reliability and security across our platforms, and champion best practices in site reliability engineering. You’ll build and maintain infrastructure through code, develop Terraform modules, explore and evaluate emerging technologies, contribute to incident post-mortems, and help drive a culture of continuous improvement. You’ll also play a key role in scaling Curve’s platform for millions of customers, improving observability, accelerating engineering teams through automation, and ensuring our services remain secure, resilient and highly available.
Responsibilities
- Build, scale and operate platforms powering products and services
- Support infrastructure relied upon by engineering teams
- Improve reliability and security across platforms
- Champion best practices in site reliability engineering
- Build and maintain infrastructure through code
- Develop Terraform modules
- Explore and evaluate emerging technologies
- Contribute to incident post-mortems
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement
- Scale the platform for millions of customers
- Improve observability
- Accelerate engineering teams through automation
- Ensure services remain secure, resilient and highly available
Requirements
- Experience deploying production-ready applications to Kubernetes clusters
- At least 2 years of experience working with a cloud provider such as AWS or GCP
- Experience defining infrastructure as code, ideally using Terraform
- Experience with a modern programming language such as Go or Python
- Strong troubleshooting skills across client, network, HTTP, server, database and operating system layers
- Experience working within Agile development environments and sprint-based delivery
- Ability to write clear, concise and effective technical documentation
- Passion for learning and staying current with cloud-native and software engineering technologies
- Experience collaborating with engineers, product managers and stakeholders across the business
- Demonstrated ownership mindset and ability to deliver initiatives from concept through to launch
Skills
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- GCP
- Terraform
- Go
- Python
- Troubleshooting
- Agile
- Technical Documentation
- Cloud-native technologies
- Software engineering technologies
- Collaboration
- Ownership mindset
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- Kubernetes (EKS)
- Istio
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Coralogix
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- HashiCorp Vault
- GitLab
- Flux
- Helm
- CI/CD pipelines
- PCI-compliant infrastructure design
- Startup environment
- Scale-up environment
- Automation initiatives
- Platform technologies
- Infrastructure technologies
Location
- Remote (UK Based)
Work Type
- Full Time (35 Hours)
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 2 years of experience working with a cloud provider
Salary/Compensations
- Up to £80,780 (Outside London)
- £93,390 (London)
Benefits
- Generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- 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
- Range of wellbeing initiatives
- Generous parental leave policies
About the Company
- We are a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good.
- Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities.
- We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
- We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative.
- We provide reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.
- As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.
- We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.
- At 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 along 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.
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme.
- We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.
