Senior Mac Infrastructure Specialist - #1675879

JOB TITLE: Senior Mac Infrastructure Specialist

SALARY: £70,929 to £80,000

LOCATION: Edinburgh or 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 (Edinburgh or Leeds) Our Platform anchor day is Monday with flexibility around the other office day(s)

About this opportunity…

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

The Modern Workplace function is pivotal to accelerating the Group's transformation agenda & adoption of cloud native capabilities. Modern Workplace lead the technical strategy, design and delivery across multiple technology platforms - we're 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.

What you'll get involved with…

As one of our Senior Mac Infrastructure Specialists you'll participate in a team designing, developing, and testing modern workplace solutions for the whole of LBG with a mac lens and focus. We are embarking on an exciting journey to reimagine our macOS offering for the bank. With automation at its core and deep integration into the broader technology landscape, we aim to support the rapid growth and maturation of our Mac estate. You will be joining us at a pivotal time to help steer this ambitious growth. Our mission is to offer Device Choice for our employees, and your contributions will make this a reality.

This SME role will be creating new features within the macOS landscape to improve user experience and empower colleagues to self-service, whilst also challenging conventional designs - bringing fresh and innovative solutions into the environment with an appreciation of mac users and their persona's to help shape your approach.

You'll be a key contributor in the development of these solutions which will bring genuine benefit based on business requirements, and be hands on through the design, build and governance phases for solution implementation.

About you…

We'll need you to be a technology game-changer, challenge conventional thinking and influence a progressive approach to technology change underpinned by modern principles.

What you'll need…

• Knowledge of industry device configuration Management technologies such as Intune and JAMF for macOS enterprise management
• Required: Jamf 300 certification; Preferred: Jamf 400 certification
• You'll have strong experience of integrating apple into large enterprises from a technical standpoint, having managed a mac estate of at least 1,000 devices previously
• Confirmed experience in developing, designing, and testing enterprise macOS solutions in a Microsoft landscape. E.g. Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Defender suite of products, Office 365 Productivity and Collaboration Tooling
• Strong experience in using scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Terraform) with enterprise solutions to investigate, build, design, or test change

Any of the following would be great to see...

• Previous experience and a deep understanding of apple in the enterprise, and common enterprise Apple architecture awareness would be preferred, in particular with iOS and macOS
• Knowledge and awareness of deploying and running cloud-hosted compute in Microsoft Entra ID, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform.
• Ability to automate common tasks with pipelines.

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 support the principles of agile working and 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 performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you're excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We'd love to hear from you!