Senior Infrastructure Specialist

Leeds Source: WhatJobs

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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