Senior Mainframe Infrastructure Engineer – IMS/Datacom

Lloyds Banking Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing initiatives

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist to develop, implement, and support IMS/Datacom across its zMainframe estate. You will work in a Core Infrastructure team, driving reliability, performance, and security of critical databases and transaction processing environments.

You’ll be part of a cooperative, expert group that values knowledge sharing, creative problem solving, and ongoing development while supporting strategic initiatives and operational excellence across

Qualifications

• Extensive background as an IMS Systems Programmer in a z/OS Mainframe setting.
• Experience installing, configuring, supporting, and maintaining IMS and Datacom products.
• Experience supporting large-scale, production environments.
• Strong diagnostic and problem-solving skills with experience managing complex incidents.

Responsibilities

• Delivering technical direction and expert insight for IMS and Datacom technologies within the zMainframe environment.
• Crafting, implementing, maintaining and improving infrastructure services in line with Group standards and architectural principles.
• Ensuring systems remain secure, available, resilient and performant, meeting agreed service levels.
• Supporting infrastructure projects, platform upgrades and technology refresh activities from planning through to implementation.
• Investigating and resolving complex incidents and problems, identifying root causes and implementing long-term solutions.
• Participating in an on-call rota and providing out-of-hours support when required.
• Collaborating with infrastructure, engineering, architecture and application teams to deliver reliable and scalable services.
• Finding opportunities for automation, optimisation and continuous improvement across the platform estate.
• Contributing to technical documentation, standards, knowledge sharing and mentoring activities.

Skills

IMS Systems Programmer

z/OS Mainframe

Incident management

Tools

IMS

Datacom

zMainframe

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist to develop, implement, and support IMS/Datacom across its zMainframe estate. You will work in a Core Infrastructure team, driving reliability, performance, and security of critical databases and transaction processing environments.

You’ll be part of a cooperative, expert group that values knowledge sharing, creative problem solving, and ongoing development while supporting strategic initiatives and operational excellence across