Azure Infrastructure Engineer

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Azure Infrastructure Engineer

SALARY: The salary banding for this role is £45,954 - £51,060

LOCATION: Edinburgh

HOURS: 35 hours, full time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

In your role as Azure Engineer, within the infrastructure team, you’ll lead in the management and deployment of Microsoft based server and cloud solutions for the group. You’ll be responsible for the design and maintenance of new technology as well as providing 3rd line support for existing systems and related technology.

Your workload will be based on support tickets raised in our IT Service Desk system and involving you supporting staff over the phone, via email and face-to-face to resolve their hardware and software related issues. Please note this is a support/engineer Infrastructure role and not DevOps!

What will I be doing?

• Be a specialist in Azure architecture, products and services

• Delivery of proactive continual improvement through technical assessment including business risk, resilience, capacity and availability of services hosted within the environment

• Responsible for the design and delivery of new Azure infrastructure, on premise and hybrid solutions

• Management of the Hybrid cloud infrastructure including servers, storage, security and virtualization

• Providing solid documentation of systems and architecture, design, configuration and testing evidence

• Providing technical leadership and guidance to peers within your areas of expertise.

• Management of desktop builds/images where integration with server infrastructure is required

• Providing support for complex queries relating to infrastructure issues

• Prioritisation of tasks, requests and incidents in accordance with agreed service levels.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

From building a truly sustainable business to creating a place where people love to work, we need colleagues who are up for the challenge of our bold ambitions. Who are excited to push boundaries and make change happen. Together, we can grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Experienced in the design and implementation of MS Azure based services including ADFS, Virtualisation, SaaS and PaaS    

• Experience of the implementation and management of resilient services including load balancing, availability sets, geo-redundancy, Azure system updates  

• Experience of Azure DR and backup solutions    

• Experience of Office365 interoperability preferably to an SME level

• Solid experience of managing on-premise and hybrid server solutions          

• Experience of deploying and/or integrating PC based technologies within Windows (e.g. Direct Access, Bitlocker)   

• Analytical and problem-solving skills.    

• Log Analytics experience.          

• Ability to interpret and analyse data.     

Our focus is to ensure we're 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’s why we especially welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

We’re disability confident. So if you’d 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

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? 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.