Job Title
Infrastructure Specialist
Salary
£48,987 - £54,430
End Date
Thursday 22 October 2026
Location(s)
Leeds and Manchester
Hours
Full time
Working Pattern
Hybrid, 40% (or two days) at one of the above office locations. Participation in an on-call rota is also a requirement of this role.
What you’ll be doing
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 a DevOps‑focused Infrastructure Specialist to join our Private Cloud Platform team, partnering with Middleware domain experts across technologies such as IBM DataPower, IBM MQ, and WebSphere/Liberty. You’ll help design, build and improve the automated delivery capabilities used to deploy and manage middleware services.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities include:
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, scripts and self‑service tooling that make middleware delivery consistent, repeatable and easier for teams to consume.
- Automate middleware lifecycle activities, including provisioning, configuration, testing, upgrades, patching and operational validation.
- Collaborate with platform, product, application, security and supplier teams to deliver solutions, solve issues and continuously improve services.
- Build secure, resilient and observable solutions using good testing, version control and documentation practices.
Why join us?
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.
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 provide reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. 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 neuro‑divergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We also offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
What we’re looking for – Essential skills
- Practical experience in a DevOps, infrastructure or platform engineering role, with a good grounding in automation and an interest in applying those skills to enterprise Middleware services.
- Hands‑on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and repeatable automated deployments, using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, UCD, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
- Good working knowledge of Git and version‑controlled delivery, including branching, pull requests, peer review and configuration‑as‑code practices.
- Scripting and automation experience using Python, Bash, Salt, Ansible or PowerShell.
- The ability to work with technical SMEs to turn requirements and operational processes into maintainable automation.
- Strong problem‑solving, communication and collaboration skills, with an understanding of security, resilience, change and support in an enterprise environment and a willingness to learn middleware technologies.
- Writing clear technical documentation, sharing knowledge and taking ownership of outcomes while seeking support when needed.
What we’re looking for –Desirable experience
- Containers and container platforms, including RedHat OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- GitOps and infrastructure or configuration‑as‑code using tools such as ArgoCD, Flux, Terraform, Ansible, Salt or Helm.
- Enterprise middleware technologies such as IBM MQ, WebSphere or IBM DataPower.
- Monitoring and observability using Dynatrace, Prometheus or Grafana.
- Testing, solving and supporting secure automated deployments across development and production‑like environments.
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual performance‑related bonus
- 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
Application and privacy
We keep your data safe. 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, 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.
Company values
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’re focussed 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.
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