Infrastructure Specialist

As an Infrastructure Specialist within Lloyds Banking Group's Private Cloud Platform, you will help modernise our middleware delivery through secure, automated, containerised pipelines. You will collaborate with middleware experts to design and operate automated tooling for provisioning, configuration, upgrades and change management. You’ll work across cross-functional teams to deliver reliable, observable, and scalable middleware services. This is a hands-on DevOps role offering growth across middleware technologies and hybrid private cloud platforms.

• generous pension contribution up to 15%
• annual performance-related bonus
• discounts on shopping
• 28 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• wellbeing initiatives
• generous parental leave policies

• Turn requirements into automated, reusable deployment and operational patterns with middleware SMEs
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, GitOps workflows, scripts and self-service tooling
• Automate middleware lifecycle activities: provisioning, configuration, testing, upgrades, patching, validation
• Collaborate with platform, product, application, security and supplier teams to improve services
• Develop secure, resilient, and observable solutions with solid testing, version control, and documentation practices

• Hands-on experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments using Harness, Jenkins, UCD, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI
• Strong Git and version-controlled delivery knowledge (branching, PRs, review, config-as-code)
• Scripting/automation experience with Python, Bash, Salt, Ansible or PowerShell
• Ability to work with technical SMEs to translate requirements into maintainable automation
• Strong problem-solving, communication and collaboration skills with understanding of security, resilience, and enterprise change management
• Willingness to learn middleware technologies and write clear technical documentation

• strong communication
• collaboration
• problem-solving
• CI/CD tooling (Harness, Jenkins, UCD, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)
• Git and configuration-as-code
• Scripting languages (Python, Bash, Salt, Ansible, PowerShell)