Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ

Responsibilities

• Provide support for complex environments to tight timescales.
• Help drive the strategy and design across the mainframe development and test estate.
• Work closely with key stakeholders, drive and deliver against the technology roadmap.
• Enforce standardisation and assist with improvement initiatives in the team.
• Work collaboratively across the wider Middleware teams to develop, promote, and implement process initiatives.
• Ensure processes and procedures are strictly adhered to.
• Why Lloyds Banking Group
• We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you!

Requirements

• Extensive knowledge of MQ infrastructure on zOS
• Strong experience of MQ system performance tuning and diagnosis
• Experience of supporting and troubleshooting critical on-line systems.
• Experience with Transport Layer Security (TLS)
• It would be great if you also had
• Diagnostic skills and an ability to analyse technical information from multiple sources, allowing the provision of highly effective solutions in complex environments
• About working for us
• Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
• 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.
• We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
• We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
• 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
• Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

Benefits

Additional Information

End Date Monday 06 July 2026 Salary Range £72,702 - £80,780 We support flexible working - click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working, Job Share Job Description Summary Senior Infrastructure Specialist z MQ Job Description JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist zMQ SALARY: £72,702 - £80,780 LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester or Leeds HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours per week WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Edinburgh or Leeds office. About this opportunity Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's biggest Digital, Retail, and Commercial bank seeking to help Britain prosper and we're transforming our products and platforms with £3bn of investment to become the bank of the future. With 789 software systems and 26,000 servers we're servicing 80,000 colleagues, 30m+ customers, and over 14m+ online users you can be confident our IT professionals have sizeable and interesting challenges every single day. In this role, you'll deliver highly complex technical support for systems and processes in mainframe environments, focusing on decommissioning and bug fixing. You'll help maintain and help migrate services according to Group standards and policies (and to agreed service levels) and will assist with the delivery of investment funded work within mainframe environments - this includes out of hours. Additionally, you'll provide technical support (including incident and problem resolution for systems and processes in complex environments) - again this includes out of hours support.

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