Senior IBM MQ & Middleware Engineer - Hybrid Role

Lloyds Bank plc; Leeds, Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist to lead IBM MQ infrastructure design and operations within our Private Cloud Platform. The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic middleware governance across VMware and OpenShift environments.

You will drive automation, security-by-design and CI/CD practices, while mentoring colleagues and advancing middleware capabilities across the platform. Hybrid work is supported with office presence in Leeds/Manchester.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of IBM MQ architecture and distributed messaging.
• Experience securing MQ with TLS, certificates, authentication, and authorization.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure and connectivity issues.
• Experience across the full MQ lifecycle from design to upgrades and management.
• Understanding of enterprise security, risk and change controls, with clear communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead IBM MQ and middleware design across VMware and OpenShift.
• Apply CI/CD and everything-as-code practices for secure, repeatable builds.
• Act as middleware authority guiding stakeholders and senior leaders.
• Champion automation, resilience, observability and security-by-design.
• Mentor colleagues and raise engineering standards across the Private Cloud platform.

Skills

IBM MQ architecture

TLS security

Troubleshooting

MQ lifecycle management

Security & compliance

Tools

VMware

Red Hat OpenShift

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Git/GitHub

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist to lead IBM MQ infrastructure design and operations within our Private Cloud Platform. The role combines hands-on engineering with strategic middleware governance across VMware and OpenShift environments.

You will drive automation, security-by-design and CI/CD practices, while mentoring colleagues and advancing middleware capabilities across the platform. Hybrid work is supported with office presence in Leeds/Manchester.