Infrastructure Specialist - #1735547

Job Title: Infrastructure Specialist - Cloud & External Network Connectivity

Salary: £47,790 - £53,100

Location: Leeds

Hours: Full time - 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at our Leeds office.

The Infrastructure Specialist will join the Cloud and External Networks Third Party & Landing Zone Network Team and play a vital role in safeguarding the Bank's external connectivity by managing the infrastructure that enables and protects third-party access.

• Operate and improve systems that enable secure connectivity for third-party suppliers, including VPNs, firewalls, and remote access platforms.
• Monitor and enforce network security policies across third-party connections, ensuring strict alignment with internal standards and regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with Supplier Partner, third-party vendors, and internal teams to support the onboarding and maintenance of Third Party Network Connectivity.
• Lead in securing third-party network access, ensuring robust external connectivity aligned with organisational standards.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and compliance tools to streamline access provisioning and monitoring.
• Provide support for incident response and change control processes to ensure flawless service management.
• Identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement to improve the resilience, security, and efficiency of third-party network services.

• A proven background in large corporate IT networks, network security, and project delivery.
• A solid grasp of network architecture, including WAN, LAN, IP, and VPN technologies (IPSec, SSL VPN, MPLS).
• Experience managing third-party access infrastructure and working with external suppliers in a regulated environment.
• Familiarity with Cisco technologies and CCNA-level knowledge.
• Awareness of firewall technologies and rule management.
• Good communication and collaborator engagement skills, able to collaborate across teams and with external partners.
• A proactive and adaptable approach, working independently and across business areas to deliver outstanding results.

• A broad understanding of modern networking components such as Load Balancers and firewalls.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure in Azure, GCP, or other public cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with JIRA, Confluence, and ServiceNow (Incident, Change, and Problem Management modules).
• A great understanding of automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)-experience with tools like Ansible, Terraform, or Python is a plus.

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, and build 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

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• 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