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# Infrastructure Specialist - IBM MQ & Message Broker

- **Company:** Lloyds Banking Group
- **Location:** Edinburgh, United Kingdom (Remote available)
- **Salary:** £48,987 - £54,430
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Unix, Linux, Distributed Systems, Middleware, IBM WebSphere MQ, OpenShift, Software Vulnerability Management, Z/OS, Enterprise Software Applications, Ibm Integration Bus
- **Published:** November 13, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.jobs.service.gov.uk/jobs/6af5bbe657f727c85b5d5495/apply

## About the Role

* IT Platforms & Hosting - experience working within infrastructure, engineering, middleware or enterprise technology environments, including Linux, Unix or mainframe environments.
 * Problem Solving - strong analytical skills, with experience investigating technical issues methodically and progressing complex problems through to resolution.
 * Risk Ownership - experience working within operational processes and controls, including incident, problem and change management, while following technical, risk and security requirements.
 * Collaboration - experience working effectively with different technical teams to coordinate activity and deliver shared outcomes.

And any experience of this would be really useful

 * Supporting IBM MQ, ACE or IIB across development, test and production environments.
 * Software installation, configuration, patching, upgrades or vulnerability remediation.
 * Supporting platform upgrades, migrations, application onboarding or infrastructure improvement activity.

## Description

As an Infrastructure Specialist, you'll help keep the messaging and integration services that support our business and customer interactions available, resilient and secure.

You'll work across our IBM MQ, IBM App Connect Enterprise (ACE) and IBM Integration Bus (IIB) estate, supporting services across IBM Z and distributed environments. It's a varied role combining hands-on operational support with engineering and project delivery.

You'll build, configure and maintain messaging components, investigate connectivity and integration issues, and support incidents, problems and technical changes through to resolution. You'll also contribute to platform upgrades, migrations, application onboarding, patching and vulnerability remediation.

Working with colleagues across z/OS, z/Linux, OpenShift, storage, network, security and application teams, you'll help monitor platform health, identify emerging risks and find opportunities to improve resilience, simplify processes and increase automation.

The role may also involve participation in on-call or out-of-hours support where required by the service., * Configuration & Integration - hands-on experience supporting enterprise messaging or integration platforms such as IBM MQ, ACE or IIB, with an understanding of queues, channels, message flows and application connectivity.