Firewall Infrastructure Team Manager

lloyds banking group; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in the UK seeks a Firewall Infrastructure Team Manager to drive team performance and enhance critical infrastructure. This role requires strong people management skills and experience with network monitoring technologies. You'll lead sophisticated changes and service improvements within a hybrid working environment, alongside a commitment to fostering inclusivity and innovation.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Flexible cash pot for benefits

30 days' holiday plus bank holidays

Private health cover

Wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience of owning an engineering team.
• Experience in regulated environments is favourable.
• Proficiency in technologies mentioned.

Responsibilities

• Act as the key technical contact for critical infrastructure.
• Plan and implement sophisticated changes.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to team members.
• Deliver infrastructure and service improvements.

Skills

Team management

Communication skills

Risk management

Problem-solving

Networking technologies

Automation

Tools

ACI Technologies

SolarWinds

Dynatrace

Python

Ansible

Terraform

Job description

Overview

End Date Friday 03 October 2025

Salary Range £70,929 - £78,810

Locations Leeds, Halifax, Manchester

Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share

Working Pattern Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

Hours Full-time - 35 hours per week

Job Details

Job Title: Firewall Infrastructure Team Manager

Location Leeds, Halifax, Manchester

Hours Full-time - 35 hours per week

What you’ll be doing

• Acting as the key contact point for technical engagement for the bank's critical infrastructure.
• Planning the implementation of sophisticated changes.
• Providing leadership and mentorship to colleagues within your team.
• Delivery of infrastructure and service improvement plans, including gateway upgrades and new builds.

Whilst not crucial to have previously worked in Financial Services, having experience of regulated environments would be favourable.

What you’ll need

• Experience of owning an engineering team. Managing risk, meeting security standards, and prioritising the need to maintain and protect service versus transforming capabilities and experiences.
• Experience in technologies including ACI Technologies, and network monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Dynatrace. Checkpoint Firewall knowledge would be preferable.
• Experience of Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling with proficiency in one or more of the following: Python, Harness, Ansible & Terraform.
• Superb communication and teamwork skills.
• Ownership of unblocking technical challenges and having a forward view to prove new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use.
• Find opportunities to reduce operating and change costs, improve change accuracy, and adopt innovative ways to how we deliver change and service.
• Strong people management abilities within a geographically diverse team environment

About Working For Us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

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 want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. 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. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

Benefits

• 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
• A flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits.
• Private health cover.
• Wider corporate benefits and perks.

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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.