Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

JOB TITLE: Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

LOCATION(S): Manchester

SALARY: £72,702-80,780

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:

• Virtualisation platform automation (with a preference for VMware Aria Automation and/or VCF)
• Virtual machine infrastructure development/management (with a preference for VMware ESXi)
• Virtual machine infrastructure networking development/management (with a preference for VMware NSX networking)

Day to day, you'll:

• Be hands-on, working on building and maintaining our Private Cloud products and services in your specialist area
• Lead technical conversations with stakeholders of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Subject Matter 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 VMware ARIA suite or VCF)

• Automation Tooling (Terraform / Ansible / Salt / Git)
• DevOps understanding and principals
• Networking (DHCP / DNS / Firewalls / Load Balancing)

You will be able to demonstrate experience of:
• Developing, Supporting & managing enterprise infrastructure systems
• Designing or contributing to solutions for a Private Cloud Environment
• Defect management and technical fault-finding
• Performance optimisation
• Security best practises 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

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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

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.