Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

Lloyds Bank plc; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution in the UK is seeking a Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist to lead and shape the technical direction of their team. This role requires expertise in hybrid cloud environments and a passion for technology. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong infrastructure engineering skills and a commitment to delivering scalable solutions. The position offers a salary range of £70,929 - £78,810 and supports flexible hybrid working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Expertise in a hybrid cloud environment with Oracle and SQL databases.
• Experience with VMware technologies and server management.
• Proven ability in performance tuning and compliance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the architectural design of infrastructure platforms.
• Mentor colleagues in infrastructure engineering topics.
• Drive automation and security best practices.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Collaboration

Cloud environment expertise

Automation best practices

Technical mentoring

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Oracle Database

PostgreSQL

VMware

Red Hat Linux

Job description

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Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

Apply locations Manchester Leeds Wellington Place time type Full time posted on Posted 3 Days Ago time left to apply End Date: August 15, 2025 (11 days left to apply) job requisition id 140763

End Date

Thursday 14 August 2025

Salary Range

£70,929 - £78,810

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

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Job Description

JOB TITLE:Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S):Leeds or Manchester

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

Embracing cloud innovation, a platform designed to deliver quick, secure, and resilient experiences for customers, while providing developers with an easy, modern, and environmentally friendly solution!

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're seeking a highly experienced, 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 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 bring your expertise to one of our specialist teams within the Operating System, Middleware and Databases Lab; Operating Systems (Linux Unix, Windows), Databases (Oracle or SQL, PostgreSQL, Mongo DB) and Middleware (WAS, MQ, WebLogic)

Day to day, you'll:

• Lead 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

• Lead technical conversations with partners of varying levels of technical background, including Senior Management and other Domain Experts

• Be a great collaborator across internal, external, and 3rd party teams

• Drive best-in-class approaches to automation and security

• Have the ability to provide education and mentorship covering infrastructure engineering topics to support different teams on those topics, and drive upskilling

• Be an SME in a particular aspect of infrastructure engineering, bringing your skills to our specialist teams whilst working to expand your knowledge across the hybrid cloud platform

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:

Oracle Database 12c, 19c and above, Oracle OCI Console, OEM

Oracle Cloud at Customer/OCI

PostgreSQL 16.x and above

MSSQL 2022 and above

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and above

Red Hat Satellite 6.1x

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5

AIX Version 6 and above

Windows Server 2022 and above

VMware technologies: ESXi, vCenter

Installation and management of IIS, SQL, Windows Clustering, DHCP, WINS, DNS,

IBM MQ 9.x

IBM DataPower v10.x

IBM API Connect v10.x

WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5 and 9.0.x

IBM Http Server 8.5.5 and 9.0.x

WebSphere Liberty

OpenLiberty

Java

Demonstrating experience of

• Developing, Supporting & managing enterprise infrastructure systems

• Designing or contributing to solutions for a Hybrid Cloud Environment

• Defect management and technical fault-finding

• Performance tuning/optimisation

• Security best practises and compliance standards

• Problem solving and communication skills

• Mentoring colleagues and supporting technical development of other

• Agile ways of working

• High Availability and Disaster Recovery systems design and implementation.

Any experience of these would be really useful

VMware (including NSX and VMware ARIA suite)

Automation Tooling (Chef / Terraform / Ansible / Salt)

Storage (SAN, NAS, vSAN)

Networking (DHCP / DNS / Firewalls / Load Balancing)

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.

At 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 keep your data safe. So, 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 which is 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.

We're focused 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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