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Thursday 14 August 2025Salary Range
£70,929 - £78,810We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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.Job Description
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.
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.
