Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

JOB TITLE: Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S): Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our locations noted above.

About this Opportunity

Embracing cloud innovation, a platform designed to deliver quick, secure, and resilient experiences for customers, while providing developers with an easy, modern, and environmentally friendly solution!

You’ll have a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team with the purpose of driving our tech modernisation agenda and enable us to become the biggest Fintech in the UK.

We're seeking a highly experienced, motivated and innovative hands-on Infrastructure Specialists to play a pivotal role in leading and shaping the technical direction of our team.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience in infrastructure engineering and a passion for technology. Commitment to delivering high-quality, scalable solutions is a must. You will have worked hands-on and bring your expertise to one of our specialist teams within the Operating System, Middleware and Databases Lab; Operating Systems (Linux Unix, Windows), Databases (Oracle or SQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB) and Middleware (WAS, MQ, WebLogic)

Day to day, you'll:

• Lead the architectural design of infrastructure platform technologies and products across our ecosystem.

• Be hands-on, working on building and maintaining our hybrid products and services in your specialist area

• Lead technical conversations with partners of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Domain Experts

• Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams

• Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security

• Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering infrastructure engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling

• Be an SME in a particular aspect of infrastructure engineering, bringing your skills to our specialist teams whilst working to expand your knowledge across the hybrid cloud platform

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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.

What you’ll need

Expertise in a hybrid cloud environment specialising in one or more of the following technologies:

Oracle Database 12c, 19c and above, Oracle OCI Console, OEM

Oracle Cloud at Customer/OCI

PostgreSQL 16.x and above

MSSQL 2022 and above

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and above

Red Hat Satellite 6.1x

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5

AIX Version 6 and above

Windows Server  2022 and above

VMware technologies: ESXi, vCenter

Installation and management of IIS, SQL, Windows Clustering, DHCP, WINS, DNS,

IBM MQ 9.x

IBM DataPower v10.x 

IBM API Connect v10.x

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 and 9.0.x

IBM Http Server 8.5.5 and 9.0.x

WebSphere Liberty

OpenLiberty

Java

Demonstrating experience of

• Developing, Supporting & managing enterprise infrastructure systems

• Designing or contributing to solutions for a Hybrid Cloud Environment

• Defect management and technical fault-finding

• Performance tuning/optimisation

• Security best practises and compliance standards

• Problem solving and communication skills

• Mentoring colleagues and supporting technical development of other

• Agile ways of working

• High Availability and Disaster Recovery systems design and implementation.

Any experience of these would be really useful

VMware (including NSX and VMware ARIA suite)

Automation Tooling (Chef / Terraform / Ansible / Salt)

Storage (SAN, NAS, vSAN)

Networking (DHCP / DNS / Firewalls / Load Balancing)

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re 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 a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with 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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.