Private Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Specialist

JOB TITLE: Private Cloud Infrastructure Assistant Specialist

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. 

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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

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

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 other

• 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.

• 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.