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JOB TITLE: Lead Infrastructure Specialist
SALARY: £90,440 - £106,400
LOCATION: Bristol
HOURS: Full time
WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (two days) in the Bristol office.
About this opportunity…
Exciting opportunity for a Lead Infrastructure Specialist to join our Accounting & Statutory Reporting Lab in the Finance Platform You’ll lead a team of Infrastructure Specialists and Technical Application Specialists within a lab, managing one or more Technical Infrastructure Products. You’ll be accountable for the associated Infrastructure strategy/ security strategy and technical product roadmaps across the Lab. This includes measuring and reporting effectiveness of process improvements to senior stakeholders
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 do…
Have accountability and oversight of complex Infrastructure solutions ensuring alignment to best practice and group technology policies. Leading reviews on technical delivery, ensuring code quality and share knowledge.
Lead the strategy on developing and implementing security controls to ensure compliance with policies and standards (e.g. codified guardrails) and protect against misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.
Evaluate and recommend best practice, tools, technologies, and processes to ensure the highest quality product offering. Working with vendors on product roadmaps to enhance service offerings.
Provide technical guidance and mentorship to other technical specialists through line management and development plans.
Have a solid understanding of security principles and secure coding and design practices
Communicate effectively with team and stakeholders.
Be accountable for IT governance on technical assets that they own through custodianship.
Live Service support in a TRM capacity for the Lab
What you’ll need…
5 years + Software / Infrastructure Engineering background with experience in IaaS scripting and solid skills (Windows and UNIX), technical leadership experience and desire to help coach and mentor staff and colleagues
Knowledge of Web Server technologies including Apache Tomcat
Great social interaction skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people,
Passionate about Cloud/platform engineering and evaluating existing deployments to determine the best hosting strategy.
Demonstrable understanding and/or experience of large, complex infrastructure upgrades
It would be great if you also had…
Exposure to Connect Direct
Scripting / Infrastructure as Code experience
Database technologies covering Oracle on-prem/cloud, SAP HANA, SQL Server
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!
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.
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What We Do
Our purpose is Helping Britain Prosper. We do this by creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for people and businesses, shaping finance as a force for good.
We're part of an ever-changing industry and are currently on a journey to shape the financial services of the future, whilst supporting our customers’ changing needs.
The scale and reach of our Group means we can offer a broad range of opportunities to learn, grow and develop. Our values-led culture and approach to inclusion and diversity means we can all make a real difference together.
