Infrastructure Engineer (Active Directory Service Lead)

End date
Tuesday 14 May 2024

Salary range
£68,202 - £75,780

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Agile Working Options
Job Share; Flexibility in when hours are worked; Hybrid Working

Job description

JOB TITLE : Infrastructure Engineer

SALARY : £68,202 - £75,780

LOCATION : Leeds

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.

NO OF ROLES: 1

Lloyds Banking Group (LBG) is the UK’s biggest Retail, Digital and Mobile bank with over 30 million customers. We’re passionate about our purpose of Helping Britain Prosper and set out an ambition for a financial services company that embraces the digital age.

The Modern Workplace Platform is pivotal to accelerating the Group’s transformation agenda & adoption of cloud native capabilities.

Within Modern Workplace, the Cloud and Security Lab lead the technical strategy, design and delivery across multiple technology platforms including Active Directory and Entra Identity - we are setting new standards when it comes to our resilience and security, whilst ensuring the services we engineer can be seamlessly transitioned for use throughout the group.

Together we can make it possible!

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The Cloud and Security Lab are responsible for support of the Infrastructure Applications aligning to Active Directory the core Microsoft technology components that underpin the Lloyds Banking Group IT infrastructure, primarily production Active Directory (Global) and (Entra ID) Microsoft’s multi-tenant, cloud based Active Directory and Identity Management solution. In addition to our support and project delivery capabilities for production environments, we also provide equivalent support for the associated development and route-to-live Domain environments.

Team responsibilities also include maintaining and supporting all road maps for AD supporting Services, partnering with Microsoft and Projects on all related project deliverables, and assess the capacity impact on new AD aware applications.

We also assist with Domain Governance queries e.g. Microsoft Azure, Patching, Compliance e.g. Cyber Portfolio, AD hardening, AD Restructure with strong focus on Change, Incident and Problem Management and wherever possible Incident Reduction and Service Improvements.

We want to recruit a new engineer to join our team.

What will this role entail?

• Coordinating support and maintenance activities across a team of colleagues looking after Critical Business infrastructure relating to the below:-
• Active Directory Domain Services (AD-DS), including knowledge of Active Directory Structure, Group Policy and Authentication methods
• Entra ID (Azure Active Directory) and supporting tools such as Entra ID Connect
• Name Resolution via DNS and WINS

Skills we are looking for:

• Ability to task manage across a team of colleagues, prioritising work as required and ensuring high standards.
• Coordinate engineering actions for incident responses.
• Proficient level of understanding of Azure Active Directory Hybrid Identity
• Experience of working and leading in a team environment but demonstrating an ability to self-manage pieces of work
• Strong communication skills are a major benefit, needing to communicate complex technical issues and solutions, to a variety of Stakeholders with differing technical knowledge
• Knowledge of other Active Directory / Identity tools such as Quest Change Auditor and Active Roles would be an advantage
• Foundation level understanding of Agile and Systems thinking would be beneficial
• We expect our technicians to have a good round understanding of IT Technology particularly in the Windows world as well as becoming specialists in Active Directory Technology
• You will also be required to participate in a 24x7 support rota for the supported platforms, and perform out of hours changes but outside of this we could consider working patterns that work for everyone.

Why join our team?

In return for your expertise, you'll enjoy our total dedication to your ongoing personal and professional development. We'll help you perform at your best today, so you can fulfil all your potential in the future.

Lloyds Banking Group is committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve, and to building an inclusive environment where all our colleagues can be themselves and succeed on merit. We're an equal opportunity employer and deeply value diversity within our organisation.

So if you have the skills we’re seeking and you’re looking for your next step, we’d love to hear from you!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.]]>