Firewall Infrastructure Specialist

JOB TITLE: Firewall Infrastructure Specialist

SALARY: £48,987 – £54,430

LOCATION(S): Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full-time – 35 hours per week

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

About this opportunity

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. Join us on our journey and you will too

In this pivotal technical SME role within Group Services and Security, you’ll provide the backbone of our operations, ensuring robust infrastructure and security for both internal and external customers. You’ll lead on expanding and optimising existing technologies, integrating toolsets, and driving efficiency across our platforms. Acting as a key point of expertise, you’ll take ownership of project-related incidents and play a critical role in safeguarding our services while enabling innovation.

This is your chance to influence the future of banking technology and make a real impact in a fast-evolving environment.

What you’ll do 

• Acting as a contact point for business engagement for this bank critical infrastructure.

• Planning the implementation of complexed changes.

• Delivering changes of all sizes for our customers.

• Delivery of infrastructure and service improvement plans, including gateway upgrades and new builds.

• Prioritisation, handling expectations and the ability to guide and influence business decisions.

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

• You'll be accountable for managing firewall change across our estate, ideally a networking/firewall SME with experience of scoping and troubleshooting firewall changes on Check Point & Fortinet. Additionally, you'll understand networking, firewalls, security principles and design concepts.

• You'll have experience working to develop long term goals and will act as a key point of contact for resources in the team for their project activity. This may involve identifying, collating, and understanding detailed information on project scope, feasibility, technical accuracy and compliance.

It would be great if you also had

• Whilst not essential to have previously worked in Financial Services, having knowledge of regulated environments

• An understanding of automation tools (Python, Power Automate, Robot Framework, Ansible, Terraform) would be favourable.

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