Firewall engineer

JOB TITLE: Firewall Engineer

SALARY: From £45,954 dependent on experience and location

LOCATION(S): Manchester, Halifax or London

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office location listed above. This role is based on a rotating shift pattern including days and nights.

About this opportunity
Lloyds Banking Group is the UK's biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers, so we have a big responsibility to help Britain Prosper. We're investing £3bn into our People, Platforms and Data to become the best bank for customers and rapidly transforming into a leading UK FinTech.

We currently have an opportunity to join a hardworking team dedicated to providing vital Checkpoint firewall protection to the organisation's networks. As a Shift Member within of this team, you'll be key to implementing change requests, supporting the business through network incidence response and advising on the best course of action to achieve the goals of our internal business teams.

The Shift Member is a key role within our firewall infrastructure team, within Network Technologies, Group CIO. Its primary responsibilities are implementing changes and supporting & remediating service issues, all whilst working as part of a team under a Shift Lead engineer. The position will play a role in delivering service improvements and develop new ways of working through automation initiatives, thereby improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our organisation.

Daily activities

• Planning the implementation of sophisticated changes

• Delivering changes of all sizes and complexities for our customers

• Monitoring the estate and working with colleagues across the wider IT community to identify and close-down service issues

• Incident response related to our Firewalls, fault finding and investigation of bank issues.

• BAU team tasks supporting daily operations of the team and business.

This role is based on a rotating shift pattern including days and nights.

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.

What you'll need

• Technical capability, shown through being CCSE/CCSA certified or qualified through experience with Checkpoint Firewalls. Ideally you would also have a range of wider Cisco Networks skills and knowledge.

• Larger enterprise environment experience, showing the ability to work being hands on with the devices to planning changes or working through control processes

• Good communications skills as well as being able to address technical challenges in what can be driven environments are also crucial

• Understanding of Jira and Agile working practices

• Automation skills would also be advantageous!

Any experience of these would be really useful

Whilst not crucial to have previously worked in Financial Services, having knowledge of regulated environments would be favourable.

About working for us
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 under-represented 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 bonus award, subject to Group performance

• 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!