Infrastructure Specialist

Infrastructure Specialist

£48,987 - £54,430

Thursday 22 October 2026

Leeds and Manchester

Full time

Hybrid, 40% (or two days) at one of the above office locations. Participation in an on-call rota is also a requirement of this role.

Lloyds Banking Group is modernising through cloud technology, creating platforms that are secure, resilient and simpler for engineering teams to adopt and manage. We’re looking for a Dev Ops‑focused Infrastructure Specialist to join our Private Cloud Platform team, partnering with Middleware domain experts across technologies such as IBM Data Power, IBM MQ, and Web Sphere/Liberty. You’ll help design, build and improve the automated delivery capabilities used to deploy and manage middleware services.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities include:

• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, Git Ops workflows, scripts and self‑service tooling that make middleware delivery consistent, repeatable and easier for teams to consume.
• Automate middleware lifecycle activities, including provisioning, configuration, testing, upgrades, patching and operational validation.
• Collaborate with platform, product, application, security and supplier teams to deliver solutions, solve issues and continuously improve services.
• Build secure, resilient and observable solutions using good testing, version control and documentation practices.

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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.

We provide reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neuro‑divergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We also offer reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers.

Just let us know what you need.

• Practical experience in a Dev Ops, infrastructure or platform engineering role, with a good grounding in automation and an interest in applying those skills to enterprise Middleware services.
• Hands‑on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and repeatable automated deployments, using tools such as Harness, Jenkins, UCD, Git Hub Actions or Git Lab CI
• Good working knowledge of Git and version‑controlled delivery, including branching, pull requests, peer review and configuration‑as‑code practices.
• Scripting and automation experience using Python, Bash, Salt, Ansible or Power Shell.
• The ability to work with technical SMEs to turn requirements and operational processes into maintainable automation.
• Strong problem‑solving, communication and collaboration skills, with an understanding of security, resilience, change and support in an enterprise environment and a willingness to learn middleware technologies.
• Writing clear technical documentation, sharing knowledge and taking ownership of outcomes while seeking support when needed.

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