Private Cloud Engineering Lead - #1784060

JOB TITLE: Private Cloud Infrastructure Lead

SALARY: £144,424 - £169,910 in London or £124,653 - £146,650 outside of London

LOCATION(S): Leeds or Manchester or London

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.

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:

• Understand the business area to facilitate the best solution design with team members and product owners

• Be environment aware, identify technical impediments / bottlenecks and work directly to resolve

• Be technology agnostic and willing to adapt approach in pursuit of the best solution

• Be anchored to core engineering area and carry the ability to test, learn and mentor others

• Understand Systems Thinking and Service Design to mitigate reactive solutions that leads to further technical debt

• Understand the benefits of measuring change and work with teams to provide reassurance and mitigate behavioural change

• Understand agile and the relationship between agile definitions and automated delivery

• Be passionate about automating everything

• Be industry aware and understand the importance of new technical approaches to evolve solutions and the experience of the team

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

Expertise 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 expertise 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)

• Azure VMware Solution (AVS) Specialist

About working for us

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 offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, 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 neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

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.