Senior Infrastructure Specialist

Overview

In this role you will lead the design and evolution of IBM MQ and middleware on private cloud platforms, driving containerisation and automation. You’ll work within the Middleware Engineering team to scale secure, observable services across VMware and Red Hat OpenShift. You will act as a technical authority, mentor peers, and push security-by-design across the platform. This is a hands-on, impact-focused position that supports Lloyds’ cloud modernisation journey. You’ll engage with stakeholders to shape resilient messaging infrastructure and platform practices.

Pay / Benefits

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%
• Annual performance related bonus
• Discounted shopping benefits
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing initiatives
• Generous parental leave policies

Responsibilities

• Lead design and evolution of IBM MQ and middleware across VMware and OpenShift, promoting containerisation and Operator-based deployment
• Apply platform engineering and everything-as-code practices, including CI/CD, for secure, repeatable build, deployment and lifecycle management
• Act as middleware technical authority, guiding conversations with stakeholders, partners, vendors and senior leaders
• Champion automation, resilience, observability and security-by-design across middleware services
• Mentor colleagues and raise engineering standards across the Private Cloud platform

Key requirements

• Deep IBM MQ architecture and distributed messaging knowledge (queue managers, channels, clustering)
• Experience securing MQ with TLS, certificates, authentication, authorisation and secure configuration
• Troubleshooting complex infrastructure, performance and connectivity issues
• Experience across the MQ lifecycle from design to upgrades and ongoing management
• Understanding of enterprise security, risk and operational controls with clear communication across teams
• stakeholder communication
• mentoring and coaching
• collaboration across cross-functional teams
• IBM MQ
• IBM WebSphere Application Server
• IBM DataPower

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