Senior MQ & z/OS Infrastructure Engineer (Hybrid)

Lloyds Banking Group; Gildersome; Hybrid; GBP 71,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounts

30 days holiday

Wellbeing & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist in zMQ to join our mainframe MQ ecosystem. You will provide expert support for z/OS MQ, shape the roadmap and help drive automation, DevOps, and AI-enabled capabilities while ensuring resilient, secure services.

This hybrid role requires strong MQ performance tuning, TLS experience, and collaboration with multiple teams to deliver reliable, scalable messaging across environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on z/OS.
• Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning, diagnosis and problem resolution.
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting business-critical online systems.
• Experience working with Transport Layer Security (TLS).
• An interest in driving innovation, automation and the evolution of mainframe technologies.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and support for complex MQ environments operating to demanding service levels.
• Help shape the strategic roadmap for z/OS MQ, influencing the future direction of our platform and engineering capabilities.
• Work closely with key stakeholders and customers to drive and deliver against the technology roadmap, ensuring service and customer outcomes remain at the heart of everything we do.
• Support the adoption of modern engineering practices, including automation, DevOps and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate across middleware, infrastructure and engineering teams to explore and implement innovative solutions, integrating mainframe technologies with emerging platforms and capabilities.
• Promote standardisation, simplification and operational excellence while ensuring processes and controls are adhered to.

Skills

MQ on z/OS

MQ performance tuning

TLS experience

DevOps awareness

AI interest

Job description

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Specialist in zMQ to join our mainframe MQ ecosystem. You will provide expert support for z/OS MQ, shape the roadmap and help drive automation, DevOps, and AI-enabled capabilities while ensuring resilient, secure services.

This hybrid role requires strong MQ performance tuning, TLS experience, and collaboration with multiple teams to deliver reliable, scalable messaging across environments.