Private Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Specialist

End Date

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Salary Range

£47,790 - £53,100

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

JOB TITLE: Private Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Specialist

SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100

LOCATION(S): Manchester or Leeds

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 are particularly interested in people, who are in their early stages of their career who are ambitious, 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 some 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 broadly with VMware technologies and bring your expertise to one of our specialist teams; Networking, Storage, Databases (Oracle, SQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB), and other infrastructure technologies.

Day to day, you'll:

• Support 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.

• Support 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.

What you’ll need

Some proven experience as an infrastructure Engineer working in a hybrid cloud environment specialising in one or more of the following technologies:

• VMware (including NSX and VMware ARIA suite)

• Storage & Backup (SAN, NAS, vSAN)

• Databases (MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle)

• Operating Systems (Windows & Linux)

• Networking (DHCP / WINS / DNS)

• Middleware (MQ, WAS)

• Automation Tooling (Chef / Terraform)

You will be able to demonstrate a familiarity and working experience of:

• Supporting & managing enterprise infrastructure systems.

• Agile ways of working.

• Cloud platforms such as Azure and Google Cloud.

• Designing or contributing to solutions for a Hybrid Cloud Environment.

• Backup / Restore and Disaster recovery processes.

• Defect Management.

• Performance Optimisation.

• Technical fault-finding Level 3 & 4.

• Security best practises and compliance standards.

• Mentoring Colleagues and supporting technical development of others.

• Service design and associated methodologies.

• Problem solving and communication skills.

Any experience of these would be really useful

• VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

• Microsoft Certified: Azure VMware Solution (AVS) Specialist.

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 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.

• 28 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.