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End Date
Monday 25 November 2024Salary Range
£68,202 - £75,780We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options
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JOB TITLE: UNIX Infrastructure Engineer – Finance Platform
SALARY: £68,202 - £80,000
LOCATION(S): Bristol
HOURS: [Full-time]
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time, at our Bristol Office
About this opportunity…
This role is part of Engineering team in our Finance Platform and will focus on work in our Accounting & Statutory Reporting Lab. We want somebody to join our engineering component team as we embark on a programme of infrastructure / application upgrades and technology management through our delivery across on-premises and cloud hosting platforms. With responsibility for delivering the technical service and management of engineering capability across a lab wide component team covering application upgrades, management of the software components & infrastructure management, technology support and engagement with our GCIO & IBM partners for provision of infrastructure service delivery across our application estate, Webservices, UNIX, TSM and Databases.
About us…
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…
About the Accounting & Statutory Reporting Team…
Our team sits within the Finance Platform. You will be responsible for supporting a complex financial reporting landscape as well as the existing/legacy ledgers and sub-ledgers.
We're a group of people pulled together by our passion for coding, experimenting, designing, and learning everything that makes us better engineers.
What you would get involved with…
You would be working in a cross-disciplinary Lab wide team and will require close collaboration with the Lab feature team engineers, readiness for adoption of strategic cloud capabilities and help drive alignment and use of group standards and patterns. The role will be hands on with the right candidate having experience and actively participating in activities around engineering solutions across different hosting platforms, configuration, access management, integration, IaaS/PaaS across the following technologies:
Window Server
Linux (RHEL, AIX)
Web Server technologies & Apache Tomcat,
SAP Business Objects
SAP BODS
SAP BFC, BW, FIM
NetWeaver Java
Connect Direct
Scripting / Infrastructure as Code
Database technologies covering Oracle on-prem/C@C, SAP HANA, SQL Server
What you’ll need to be considered for this job…
Generally, you are comfortable in a hands-on technical role, blending both software and infrastructure technical expertise.
We encourage people from a range of role and industry backgrounds but do need to see the following as a minimum for consideration:
5 years + Software / Infrastructure Engineering background with experience in IaaS scripting and strong UNIX skills.
technical leadership experience and desire to help coach and mentor staff and colleagues,
Great social interaction skills and a good communicator with technical and non-technical people,
Passionate about Cloud/platform engineering and evaluating existing deployments to determine the best hosting strategy.
Good understanding and/or experience of large, complex infrastructure upgrades
Oh, and if you have any prior experience working within a finance function or with general ledger systems that would be handy, but please apply if you don’t!
About working for us…
Our focus is to ensure we are inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. 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. And it is why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We are disability confident. So, if you would like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
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.
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow, and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
Join our journey.
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.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
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.
