Overview

End Date: Friday 03 October 2025

Salary Range: £70,929 - £78,810

Locations: Leeds, Halifax, Manchester

Hours: Full-time - 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Hybrid working, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Network Services department during a transformative period for the group, all while working in an inclusive, collaborative team that values your growth and ideas.

This is a Senior Infrastructure Specialist role leading all aspects of the 24/7 Firewall Team, coordinating activities, meeting customer needs, and ensuring service is maintained. Our mission is to provide vital firewall protection to the organisations networks.

Responsibilities

• Acting as the key contact point for technical engagement for the bank's critical infrastructure.


• Planning the implementation of sophisticated changes.


• Providing leadership and mentorship to colleagues within your team.


• Delivery of infrastructure and service improvement plans, including gateway upgrades and new builds.

Whilst not crucial to have previously worked in Financial Services, having experience of regulated environments would be favourable.

Qualifications

• Experience of owning an engineering team. Managing risk, meeting security standards, and prioritising the need to maintain and protect service versus transforming capabilities and experiences.


• Experience in technologies including ACI Technologies, and network monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, Dynatrace. Checkpoint Firewall knowledge would be preferable.


• Experience of Automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling with proficiency in one or more of the following: Python, Harness, Ansible & Terraform


• Superb communication and teamwork skills.


• Ownership of unblocking technical challenges and having a forward view to prove new patterns and technical solutions ready for full use.


• Find opportunities to reduce operating and change costs, improve change accuracy, and adopt innovative ways to how we deliver change and service.


• Strong people management abilities within a geographically diverse team environment

About working for us

If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

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

Benefits

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%


• An annual performance-related bonus


• 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


• A flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits.


• Private health cover.


• Wider corporate benefits and perks.

Ready to start growing with purpose? Apply today

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.