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:

We are modernising with cloud, a platform that is quick, secure and resilient for customers and easy, modern and green for developers.

We're looking for Infrastructure Specialists to join our Private Cloud Platform. 

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. Our Compute, Storage & Networking team has roles across all three capabilities.  You will have worked hands-on and broadly across one or multiple of these areas:

• Virtual machine infrastructure development/management (with a preference for VMware ESXi)

• Virtual machine infrastructure networking development/management (with a preference for VMware NSX networking)

• Virtualisation platform automation (with a preference for VMware Aria Automation)

• Storage infrastructure management (with a preference for Dell and NetApp storage products

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:

• VMware (including NSX and VMware ARIA suite)
• Storage (SAN, NAS, vSAN)
• Networking (DHCP / DNS / Firewalls / Load Balancing)
• Automation Tooling (Chef / Terraform / Ansible / Salt)

Demonstrate experience of
• Developing, Supporting & leading enterprise infrastructure systems
• Designing or contributing to solutions for a Hybrid Cloud Environment
• Defect management and technical fault-finding
• Performance optimisation
• Security best practice and compliance standards
• Problem solving and communication skills

• Mentoring colleagues and supporting technical development of other
• Agile ways of working

Any experience of these would be really useful
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
• Azure VMware Solution (AVS)

• Databases (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)
• Operating Systems (Windows & Linux)

About working for us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. 

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're 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. 

• Generous holiday allowance, 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.