Infrastructure Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; Greater Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 47,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join their Network Security and Traffic Management Lab in Manchester. The successful candidate will focus on implementing and supporting infrastructural solutions that align with company policy and strategy, while collaborating with senior engineers. This hybrid role offers a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

28 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave

Qualifications

• Demonstrated continuous learning and curiosity about technology.
• Experience with software-defined infrastructure and automation tooling.
• Familiarity with traditional and modern cloud-based architectures.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design and implementation of software-defined infrastructure.
• Identify and suggest improvements to existing systems.
• Track risk parameters and identify deviations.

Skills

Python programming

Software engineering

Infrastructure as Code

Agile methodologies

Cloud architectures

Operational Resilience

Security awareness

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jira

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

JOB TITLE: Infrastructure Engineer

SALARY: £47,790 - £53,100

LOCATION(S): Manchester

HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time in our Manchester office.

About this opportunity

The focus of this role to provide support, guidance and delivery of Technical Patterns that align with LBG Policy, Strategy.

An opportunity has risen for a Infrastructure Engineer to join our Network Security and Traffic Management Lab within the Core Infrastructure Platform at Lloyds Banking Group. The focus of this role to provide support, guidance and delivery of Technical Patterns that align with LBG Policy, Strategy.

What you'll do

• Assist in the design, implementation, maintenance and support of software-defined infrastructure resources.

• Gain practical experience whilst working on medium-complexity IaC-related activities under the guidance of senior Infra engineers.

• Identify shortcomings and suggests improvements to existing processes, systems and procedures, then delivers a plan for a small element of a change management programme with guidance from a project/programme manager.

• Helps others use and benefit from the existing knowledge management systems.

• Keeps track of risk parameters and identifies and reports any major deviation to more senior colleagues while working within established risk management systems.

• Analyses specified problems and issues to find the best technical and/or professional solutions.

• Uses product specifications to design test procedures and standards.

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

• A natural curiosity about technology and its application to customer outcomes, demonstrated by continuous learning and agile practices. Collaborate within teams to foster a culture of cooperation and ownership.

• Software engineering skills, such as python programming.

• Infrastructure as Code, experience and understanding of Terraform, Ansible and other infrastructure automation tooling.

• Agile methodologies and tooling such as Jira and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience in modern Cloud based architectures.

• Knowledge of traditional datacentre hosted architectures.

• Awareness of emerging technologies and trends.

And any experience of these would be beneficial

• Technical experience within financial services organisations.

• Good understanding of Operational Resilience and Security.

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're committed to creating a consciously inclusive workplace where our colleagues can be themselves, thrive and perform at their best.

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.

As an inclusive employer, we offer Workplace Adjustments for colleagues with a disability (which may include long-term health and neurodivergent conditions) where it is reasonable to do so. This could include flexibility with regards to office attendance, location, and working pattern.

We're proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. If you have a disability, you can also apply via our Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). Through the DCS, we guarantee to interview a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, whose application meets the minimum criteria for the advertised job role.

We also provide adjustments that are reasonable throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers for applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition. If you'd like an adjustment to the recruitment process 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 policie