Summary

This senior infrastructure specialist role leads the design and evolution of IBM MQ and middleware services across Lloyds Banking Group’s private cloud platforms. It combines hands-on engineering with operational responsibility, mentoring, and platform modernisation, in a hybrid arrangement based in Leeds or Manchester with an on-call rota.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve IBM MQ middleware services
• Build and deploy platforms using CI/CD practices
• Troubleshoot infrastructure, performance, and connectivity issues
• Manage MQ installation, patching, upgrades, and configuration
• Improve middleware resilience, observability, and security
• Mentor colleagues and raise engineering standards