Senior Mac Infrastructure Specialist

Lloyds Banking Group; Gildersome; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK bank is seeking a Senior Mac Infrastructure Specialist to join their team in a hybrid work environment. The role involves designing and implementing modern workplace solutions for macOS, focusing on creating innovative user experiences. Candidates should have experience managing a large mac estate and knowledge of integration within a Microsoft landscape. This position offers a competitive salary between £70,929 and £80,000 along with an extensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution up to 15%

Annual bonus based on performance

Share schemes including free shares

30 days holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave

Qualifications

• Strong experience integrating Apple in large enterprises managing a mac estate of at least 1,000 devices.
• Confirmed experience in developing, designing, and testing enterprise macOS solutions.
• Knowledge of industry device configuration management technologies such as Intune and JAMF.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and test modern workplace solutions focused on macOS.
• Create new features within the macOS landscape to improve user experience.
• Contribute in the development phases for solution implementation.

Skills

Device configuration management

Integration of Apple in large enterprises

Scripting languages (Bash, Python, Terraform)

Education

Jamf 300 certification

Jamf 400 certification

Job description

JOB TITLE: Senior Mac Infrastructure Specialist

SALARY: £70,929 to £80,000

LOCATION: Leeds or Edinburgh

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 one of our office sites (Edinburgh or Leeds). Our Platform anchor day is Monday with flexibility around the other office day(s).

About this opportunity

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is the UK's biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers. We're committed to our purpose of Helping Britain Prosper and set out an ambition for a financial services company that embraces the digital age.

The Modern Workplace function is pivotal to accelerating the Group's transformation agenda & adoption of cloud native capabilities. Modern Workplace lead the technical strategy, design and delivery across multiple technology platforms – we're setting new standards when it comes to our resilience and security, whilst ensuring the services we engineer can be seamlessly transitioned for use throughout the group.

About us

Like the modern Britain we serve, we're evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We're growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you'll get involved with

As one of our Senior Mac Infrastructure Specialists you'll participate in a team designing, developing, and testing modern workplace solutions for the whole of LBG with a mac lens and focus. We are embarking on an exciting journey to reimagine our macOS offering for the bank. With automation at its core and deep integration into the broader technology landscape, we aim to support the rapid growth and maturation of our Mac estate. You will be joining us at a pivotal time to help steer this ambitious growth. Our mission is to offer Device Choice for our employees, and your contributions will make this a reality.

This SME role will be creating new features within the macOS landscape to improve user experience and empower colleagues to self‑service, whilst also challenging conventional designs – bringing fresh and innovative solutions into the environment with an appreciation of mac users and their persona's to help shape your approach.

You’ll be a key contributor in the development of these solutions which will bring genuine benefit based on business requirements, and be hands on through the design, build and governance phases for solution implementation.

What you'll need

• Knowledge of industry device configuration management technologies such as Intune and JAMF for macOS enterprise management
• Required: Jamf 300 certification; Preferred: Jamf 400 certification
• You’ll have strong experience of integrating Apple into large enterprises from a technical standpoint, having managed a mac estate of at least 1,000 devices previously
• Confirmed experience in developing, designing, and testing enterprise macOS solutions in a Microsoft landscape. E.g. Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender suite of products, Office 365 Productivity and Collaboration Tooling
• Strong experience in using scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Terraform) with enterprise solutions to investigate, build, design, or test change

Any of the following would be great to see

• Previous experience and a deep understanding of Apple in the enterprise, and common enterprise Apple architecture awareness would be preferred, in particular with iOS and macOS
• Knowledge and awareness of deploying and running cloud‑hosted compute in Microsoft Entra ID, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
• Ability to automate common tasks with pipelines.

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 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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
• 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

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!