What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Infrastructure Specialist position at lbg?
End Date Monday 29 June 2026 We Support Flexible Working – Click here for more information on flexible working options Flexible Working Options Hybrid Working Job Description Summary We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Specialist to join our Private Cloud Platform – Backup & Recovery (BUR) Team. This role plays a key part in designing, engineering, and operating enterprise backup and data protection services, supporting the Group’s resilience, recoverability, and regulatory obligations. You’ll be an experienced, hands on engineer with strong technical depth in enterprise backup and recovery platforms, capable of leading complex engineering outcomes, owning technical domains, and supporting junior colleagues’ development, while working under the strategic direction of senior technical leaders. Job Description Role: Senior Infrastructure Specialist Experience: 9-15 years Location: Hyderabad Job Type: Full Time Day to Day, You’ll: Act as a senior technical contributor within the BUR platform, designing, building and operating enterprise backup and recovery capabilities. Serve as an SME for Backup & Recovery technologies, supporting solution design across Private Cloud and adjacent platform teams. Lead technical design and implementation activities for backup, restore, and recovery services across VMware, physical and enterprise workloads. Engineer and maintain resilient protection policies, including application‑consistent backups, snapshots, restore workflows and recovery runbooks. Provide Level 3 engineering support, including incident triage, complex fault diagnosis, and root cause analysis. Support the definition and delivery of RPO / RTO requirements for critical services, ensuring alignment with security, risk and regulatory needs. Design and operate scalable backup platforms, supporting large VM estates and multi‑petabyte data volumes. Contribute to immutable backup and cyber‑resilience designs, supporting ransomware protection and recovery strategies. Integrate backup platforms with virtualisation, storage, databases, file systems and enterprise applications. Drive automation‑first engineering, including provisioning, policy management, restore workflows and platform upgrades. Coach and mentor Band D engineers, sharing knowledge and improving team capability. Collaborate effectively with Security, Risk, Application and Infrastructure teams, translating requirements into robust technical solutions. 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 Backup, Storage & Data Protection Strong hands‑on experience with enterprise backup and recovery platforms, including: Dell Data Protection Suite (PPDM, NetWorker, Data Domain) Backup architecture and operations for: VMware virtual infrastructure Physical x86 servers IBM Power / AIX / PowerVM workloads Enterprise databases and applications Understanding of immutable backup, cyber recovery, and long‑term retention concepts Experience with backup performance, monitoring, capacity planning and compliance Core Platform Skills VMware vSphere (with working knowledge of NSX / Aria desirable) Enterprise Windows and Linux environments Automation & Engineering Practices Experience with automation and configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Terraform, Chef) Strong scripting and automation mindset Familiarity with Agile delivery and modern service design practices You’ll Also Bring Experience operating enterprise‑scale platforms Strong incident management and problem‑solving skills Clear communication with technical and non‑technical stakeholders A collaborative, continuous‑improvement mindset We're Lloyds Technology Centre*, a tech and data company located in Hyderabad, India. We're part of Lloyds Banking Group, a leading provider of financial services in the UK and the UK's largest digital bank, with more than 27 million customers. We're changing financial services, and we want you to join us. With market-leading people practices and great opportunities for career and skills growth, we are committed to creating an exceptional colleague experience that is welcoming for all. Join us! *Lloyds Technology Centre does not offer financial services in India. Should you wish to contact us for any reason, please email us at: indiarecruitment@lloydsbanking.com For more Flexible Working Options please use the free text search, e.g. job sharing, variable hours, to identify relevant matches.