Lloyds Banking Group
Senior Infrastructure Specialist z/Linux
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End Date
Sunday 26 July 2026
Salary Range
£72,702 - £80,780
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Job Description Summary
The Senior Infra Engineer will hold accountability for design, implementation, security, maintenance, and support of software-defined infrastructure resources. They will work without the need for supervision and own and direct the tasks of more junior infra engineers. They will focus on Platform or Lab level objectives and may manage a sub-set of their team’s technical products.
Job Description
JOB TITLE: Senior Infrastructure Specialist z/Linux
SALARY: £70,929 – £78,810
LOCATION(S): 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 Leeds office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
About this opportunity
The Senior Infrastructure Engineer will hold accountability for design, implementation, security, maintenance, and support of software-defined infrastructure resources. They will work without the need for supervision and own and direct the tasks of more junior infra engineers. They will focus on Platform or Lab level objectives and may manage a sub-set of their team’s technical products
The OpenShift on Z / z/Linux Engineer will provide specialist technical capability to support, engineer, and enhance the z/Linux estate running on OpenShift on IBM Z (OCPz), IBM Z (z/VM) and associated x86 Linux environments. The role focuses on run-the-bank stability, product currency, engineering change, and project delivery, ensuring highly available and secure Linux services that underpin critical business workloads.
What you’ll be doing
- Act as a technical specialist for OpenShift on Z (OCPz), supporting platform stability, engineering change, and ongoing enhancement.
- Provide BAU support for the z/Linux estate, including incident, problem, and change activity across development, test, and production environments.
- Build, configure, and maintain RHEL based z/Linux virtual guests running on IBM Z under z/VM.
- Deliver product currency and security remediation across both OpenShift and Linux platforms, including upgrades, patching, and vulnerability remediation in line with enterprise standards.
- Support engineering and project activity, including OCPz platform improvements, infrastructure upgrades, and service improvements.
- Work closely with adjacent platform teams (z/OS, storage, network, security, and application teams) to deliver integrated outcomes.
- Produce and maintain technical documentation, build guides, and operational runbooks for both OCPz and Linux platforms.
- Participate in on-call or out-of-hours support as required by the service.
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Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
What we’re looking for?
- Strong hands-on experience with OpenShift / container platforms, ideally OpenShift on IBM Z (OCPz).
- Experience working in enterprise production environments with high availability and regulatory requirements.
- Good working knowledge of Linux, ideally RHEL on s390x architecture.
- Good understanding of z/VM, virtual guest provisioning, and Linux system administration.
- Proven experience with OS patching, upgrades, and vulnerability management.
- Familiarity with incident, problem, and change management in a controlled environment.
- Ability to work independently while integrating effectively within an established platform team.
And any experience of these would be great
- Deep experience with OpenShift platform engineering and cluster lifecycle management.
- Experience with automation tooling such as Ansible and Red Hat Satellite.
- Knowledge of mainframe-adjacent technologies and enterprise DevOps tooling.
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This is a place for you
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 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
Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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.
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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.
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