Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

End Date

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Salary Range

£70,929 - £78,810

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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 Specialist 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 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:

• 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 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.
• 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

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 practices 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

Curious to know more? Join us for an ask me anything session on Tuesday 22nd from 14:30 to 15:30. If you would like to be included in this call, please email Cloudbusinessmanagement@lloydsbanking.com.

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.

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.