Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist (VMware)

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Discounted shopping

28 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is recruiting a Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist (VMware) to join our Private Cloud Platform. The role is based in Manchester/Leeds with hybrid work and on-call rotation to support 24/7 services.

You'll design, build, operate and continuously improve our VMware-based private cloud, focusing on automation-first platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code. This is a hands-on role requiring expertise across VMware technologies and Dell hardware.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Infrastructure or Platform Engineer in a private cloud environment.
• Experience with compute infrastructure technologies: VMware vSphere/Cloud Foundation, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite, Dell Server Hardware.
• Designing and operating platforms using automation and infrastructure as code.
• Source Code Management (Git/GitHub).
• Understanding security, compliance and resilience in enterprise environments.
• Experience supporting production platforms with high availability and performance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, operate and continuously improve services running on VMware and Bare Metal platforms.
• Drive automation, resilience, security and operational excellence across the platform lifecycle using IaC.
• Provide technical authority and guidance with internal teams, partners and vendors to deliver scalable infrastructure solutions.

Skills

Automation & IaC

Security & compliance

High availability design

Agile methods

Communication skills

Tools

VMware vSphere

VMware Cloud Foundation

vSAN

NSX

Aria Suite

Dell Server Hardware

Git/GitHub

Bash

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

JOB TITLE: Private Cloud Infrastructure Specialist (VMware)
SALARY: £48,987 - £54,430

LOCATION(S): Manchester or Leeds

HOURS: Full time (Please note that participation in an on-call rota is also a requirement of this role)

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in the above office location

What you'll be doing

We're 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 team, specialising in VMware technologies with a particular focus on VMware Cloud Foundation.

This is a unique opportunity to be part of an ambitious team driving our technology modernisation agenda and helping us become the biggest FinTech in the UK. The role is firmly focused on automation-first platform engineering, shaping how infrastructure platforms, including VMware Cloud Foundation and Dell hardware, are built, deployed and operated through infrastructure-as-code. You'll help reduce manual intervention and enable safe, repeatable change at scale.

We're looking for hands-on Infrastructure Specialists to help deliver the next generation of compute hosting platforms across our Private Cloud ecosystem. You'll design, build, operate and continuously improve services running on VMware and Bare Metal platforms.

Using platform engineering and infrastructure-as-code principles, you'll drive automation, resilience, security and operational excellence across the platform lifecycle.

As a technical authority, you'll provide expert guidance while working with internal teams, partners and vendors to deliver scalable, secure infrastructure solutions.

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.

What we're looking for

• Proven experience as an Infrastructure or Platform Engineer working in a private cloud environment, with infrastructure expertise.

• Experience with compute infrastructure technologies, including one or more of the following: VMware vSpehere or Cloud Foundation, vSAN, NSX, Aria Suite, Dell Server Hardware
• Experience designing and operating platforms using automation and infrastructure as code
• Source Code Management (Git / GitHub)
• Understanding of security, compliance and resilience in enterprise environments
• Experience supporting production platforms with high availability and performance requirements
  

You’ll should be able to demonstrate experience in:

• Supporting and managing enterprise infrastructure platforms
• Agile ways of working
• Designing or contributing to Hybrid Private Cloud solutions
• Backup, restore and disaster recovery processes
• Performance tuning and optimisation
• Incident, problem and defect management (Level 3 / 4)
• Secure configuration and compliance with enterprise standards
• Analytical, problem solving and communication skills
  

Any experience of these would be really useful:

• Cisco ACI Networks
• SAN Storage
• Observability and monitoring tooling (e.g. Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana)
• Experience modernising legacy platforms
• Scripting and automation (e.g. Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
• Experience working with regulated or financial services environments

• Azure VMware Solution
• Certifications in VMware technologies
• Experience contributing to platform standards, patterns or internal engineering communities
• Experience working closely with product owners and architecture teams

This is a place for you

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
• 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