Disaster Recovery Cloud Specialist

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Disaster Recovery Cloud Specialist

Group Services & Security (Core Infrastructure & IT Operations)

About us:

At Lloyds Banking Group, we have a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper and to become the best Financial Services provider for our customers. Through our brands, our Group has a relationship with just about every household and community in the UK. We underpin the lives of millions of individuals and businesses and play such a meaningful role in helping to build a growing UK economy.

As a Disaster Recovery / Cloud Specialist you’ll be joining a well-established assurance team expanding its remit in support of the Group meeting key industry technology resilience regulation.

Within Group Services & Security (Core Infrastructure & IT Operations), our approach to hybrid working is still emergent but you should expect to be in office circa 2 days per week with home-working available for the remaining days.

Annual basic salary:

* Halifax, Manchester, Edinburgh: £57,078 - £66,591 + exceptional rewards package

* London: £66,744 - £77,868 + exceptional rewards package

About the role:

You’ll be working in an environment driving our efforts to ensure we afford appropriate protections and resilience to our use of Private and Public Cloud offerings across multiple providers/key partners. You’ll drive and enhance our assurance operating model to cater for use of the Cloud through our Service Introduction process and will play a key role in the delivery of appropriate recovery and proving solutions as part of an ongoing assurance testing schedule covering critical IT applications. Our ability as a Group to restore customer services following a severe event is very much in the spotlight, with Cloud offerings playing an increasing part of our journey to ensure Britain prospers. As part of the role, you will also be trained in Disaster Recovery Assurance processes in support of a matrix management ethos embedded across the wider team.

A track record working within IT either at an application or infrastructure level, spanning across both Cloud and Traditional is a must. As is an appreciation of the different technology platforms which underpin the Group’s critical business infrastructure and applications.

You’ll need to show a real passion for developing new approaches for building and assuring the DR solutions as they migrate on to cloud environments. Showing initiative and independent drive will be key to forging new relationships and solutions on our Cloud journey. Working across multiple technology and platform areas and supporting the delivery of key resilience programmes of work.

What we need from you:

Essential skills & experience:

• Good & demonstrable knowledge of the Public and Private Cloud technologies and products.
• Experience supporting large Programmes and Projects and Service Introduction processes.
• Self-drive with evidence of delivering Cloud Proving approaches.
• Experience in identification and highlighting of risks
• Good customer awareness with the ability to influence and educate at Snr Manager level
• Strong communication skills - report writing and creation of power point slide decks
• Ability to remain agile and respond to changes in what will be a complex / changing environment

Desirable skills & experience:

• Awareness of IT Disaster Recovery planning & proving
• Experience of MS Azure and Google GCP Clouds specifically
• Knowledge of Chaos Engineering
• Experience of IT Incident/Change management process

So, if you have the skills, background, and outlook we’re seeking then get in touch, we’d love to hear from you!

What can we offer you in return?

In line with our strategy to be the Best Bank for Colleagues, we encourage a culture of professional development. You’ll have numerous opportunities to stretch and develop beyond core role responsibilities. In addition, recognition for colleague contribution and performance is a truly meaningful element of our colleague charter.

You’ll be rewarded with excellent benefits, personal development and a career that’s enriching and full of opportunity!

As well as a competitive salary, you’ll receive:

• A Discretionary Performance Share Award
• Generous pension contribution
• 30 Days leave plus bank holidays
• A flexible cash pot (4% of base salary) to spend on benefits or take cash
• Private health cover
• Share Schemes

So why should you apply?

You’ll become part of a team that has an inclusive, values-led culture. This means we embrace that not everyone is the same or likes to work in the same way. We’re focused on delivering for both our customers and our colleagues; you’ll receive support to learn, grow and develop, benefitting from a huge range of opportunities opened up by being part of our Group.

Offering hybrid working patterns we believe that a healthy work/ life balance is as important as the work we deliver, just let us know what might work for you.

We are passionate about diversity and equal opportunity with industry recognition across gender, ethnicity, disability, LGBTQ+ and families.

We’re committed to employing a diverse and inclusive workforce, reflective of the customers and communities we serve, where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit.

And we’re proud to have received these industry recognitions: Stonewall Top Private Sector Employer, Top10 Employer for Working Families, The Times Top 50 Employer for Women and both Gold Standard and Best Workplace Adjustments Process from the Business Disability Forum.

So, if you’d like to work in a challenging environment, supporting the enhancement of our assurance service for Public & Private Cloud, whilst gaining skills and experience within a friendly and motivated team then get in touch, we’d love to hear from you...

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