Senior Infrastructure Specialist, Lloyds
£72.7-80.8k
+ An annual performance related bonus
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Wellington Place, Leeds)
Retail and commercial bank
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Retail and commercial bank
1001+ employees
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£72.7-80.8k
+ An annual performance related bonus
More information about location
2 days a week in office (Wellington Place, Leeds)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To support families and businesses, helping them to take the next step, whatever that may be.
Role
Who you are
- We’re looking for someone with significant hands-on experience engineering and supporting IBM MQ in large-scale enterprise environments
- Deep technical knowledge of IBM MQ architecture and distributed messaging, including queue managers, channels and clustering
- Strong experience securing MQ through TLS, certificates, authentication, authorisation and secure configuration
- Proven ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure, performance and application-connectivity issues
- Experience across the full MQ lifecycle, from design and installation through configuration, patching, upgrades and ongoing platform management
- Understanding of enterprise security, risk, change and operational controls, with effective communication across infrastructure, application and platform teams
Desirable
- Experience with other enterprise middleware, particularly IBM WebSphere Application Server or IBM DataPower
- Containers and enterprise platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift or Kubernetes, including Operators, containerised IBM MQ and relevant certification
- Automation, CI/CD, source control and GitOps using tools such as Git, GitHub, Jenkins, Harness, Ansible, Python or Bash
- Monitoring and observability with tools such as Dynatrace, Prometheus or Grafana
- Operating critical middleware across VMware, private or hybrid cloud environments, including incident management, resilience, backup and disaster recovery
- Agile, cross-disciplinary engineering experience, including mentoring colleagues, improving standards and modernising traditional middleware
What the job involves
- Lloyds Banking Group is modernising through cloud technology, creating platforms that are secure, resilient and simpler for engineering teams to adopt and manage
- We’re looking for an experienced IBM MQ Infrastructure Specialist to join our Private Cloud Platform team, bringing deep technical expertise to lead the design and evolution of our enterprise messaging and middleware services
- You’ll join an established Middleware Engineering team responsible for critical middleware services across our Private Cloud estate. IBM MQ is at the heart of the role, combining hands-on engineering and operational responsibility with helping us modernise through automation, modern engineering practices and increased adoption of containerisation and Red Hat OpenShift
- Lead the design and evolution of IBM MQ and wider middleware services across VMware and Red Hat OpenShift platforms, driving the appropriate adoption of containerisation and Operator-based deployment
- Apply platform engineering and everything-as-code practices, including CI/CD, to enable secure, repeatable build, deployment and lifecycle management
- Act as a middleware technical authority, leading technical conversations with stakeholders, partners, vendors and senior leaders
- Champion automation, resilience, observability and security-by-design across middleware services
- Mentor colleagues, share specialist knowledge and help raise engineering standards and capability across the wider Private Cloud platform
Application process
- End Date: Thursday 22 October 2026
Our take
Lloyds Bank, part of Lloyds Banking Group, began operations back in 1765 and is nowadays one of the UK’s leading retail and commercial banks. As with many leading banks, the company has dealt with its share of controversy, but it has nonetheless stood the test of time and worked to build back its public reputation in the wake of these setbacks.
As part of its ongoing digital transformation, the company is seeking to put the cloud at the front of its services and systems, and has cited intentions to invest heavily in overhauling its technology infrastructure. All this seeks to serve the modern banking customer, and to compete with the fast-increasing number of alternative banking options appearing on the market.
On top of this, Lloyds Bank has shown great interest in facilitating innovation in the industry, joining as a partner on "FinTech Action Labs" to bring its industry expertise to early-stage FinTechs. The company continues to enhance its online and mobile services (it is the UK's biggest mobile bank), as well as expanding its partnerships with digital banking companies.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Flex cash: This is 4% of your basic salary and can be used to spend on the benefits of your choice, or you can choose to take it as a cash top up in your monthly salary.
- A generous holiday allowance: You’ll be eligible for a minimum of 22 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), rising to 30 days based on length of service and grade.
- A flexible way of working: Whether you want flexibility over your location or when you log on, together we can create an approach that works for you and for the business.
- Family leave: Up to 63 weeks of maternity or adoption leave. Statutory maternity or adoption pay is available for 39 weeks, and 20 weeks will be enhanced to the equivalent of full pay. Partners can have six weeks of fully paid paternity leave.
- Health insurance: Our company funded Private Medical Benefit provides all colleagues with access to good quality medical care, including accommodation, nursing care and specialist advice.
- Colleague Offers: Get discounts on everything from electrical items to cinema tickets and weekly food shopping. You can share this benefit with up to ten family members or friends.
- Financial products: Take advantage of our great financial products, some at a discounted rate, including current accounts, home and car insurance and loans.
- Share plans: Participate in Sharematch and receive matching shares of up to £45 a month from the company, and you can choose to participate in Sharesave, our combined savings and share option plan.
- Pension: We offer a generous pension plan, with all joiners being automatically enrolled in our 'Your Tomorrow' scheme. You can decide how much you save and get a say in where your contributions are invested.
Company HQ
City of London, London, UK
Leadership
Charlie Nunn
(Group Chief Executive)Spent nine years at HSBC, including as Group Head of Wealth Management and Digital, and as CEO of Wealth and Personal Banking.
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