JOB TITLE: Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud & Compute Security)
LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol
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.
About this opportunity
The Chief Security Office (CSO) is a vital part of delivering the Group's vision of putting customers at the heart of everything we do, helping Britain prosper and protecting the Group and customers from security threats. We’re responsible for defining and communicating Lloyds Banking Group's security strategy and providing a range of critical Enterprise Security Services which not only operate key controls that keep the Group safe but also enable the digital transformation agenda of the wider organisation.
Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a dynamic Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join our Cloud Enterprise & Compute Security Lab. This is a pivotal leadership position, where you will drive our Cloud and Compute security engineering agenda, taking ownership for engineering execution and innovation across a large, technically diverse team. You’ll be working closely with the wider leadership group, accountable for delivering cutting-edge solutions within a complex, hybrid, and multi-cloud environment.
This role is ideal for senior engineering leaders with proven experience in hands-on technical roles. You will strike a balance between fostering engineering excellence across the team, providing strategic oversight, and engaging directly in technical delivery. Your strong technical acumen and leadership will ensure our security engineering function remains robust, innovative, and adaptable, making a tangible impact across the Group.
The position involves both direct involvement in engineering and line management responsibilities for a group of engineers, offering the opportunity to shape the team’s direction and influence the Group’s security landscape.
Key Responsibilities
Technical Accountability & Leadership
Excellent DevOps engineering skills across modern cloud and application architectures.
Working within the engineering leadership team, accountable for technical direction and execution across the lab.
Working with product teams in the definition and evolution of the technical strategy in service of the wider roadmap and security agenda.
Providing technical leadership and engineering oversight with a detailed understanding of the technology estate, architecture and controls.
Building a dynamic and robust engineering function, with consistency of skills able to respond to the changing demands of the organisation.
Team Management
Line manage and coach a team of Infrastructure & DevOps Engineers, promoting a high-performance culture.
Set objectives, provide mentoring, and support continuous professional development.
Plan and lead team capacity, budgeting, and resource allocation to align with strategic goals.
Encourage experimentation, innovation, and adoption of modern engineering practices.
Open to challenges and to challenging the status quo.
Operational Excellence
Oversee the delivery, monitoring, and continuous improvement of the cloud security framework.
Ensure services are highly resilient, documented, and aligned with compliance and audit requirements.
Maintain strong partnerships with internal product teams and external vendors to ensure service quality.
Risk, Security & Compliance
Leading the engineering execution in support of security and risk strategy.
Working with security product teams and our customers to ensure security remains a business enabler, supporting organisational and local strategy and innovation.
Driving the reimagining of modern, automated and frictionless security.
Participate in security reviews, risk assessments, and policy updates.
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
Leadership experience in DevOps and/or Infrastructure Engineering role, with associated line management responsibilities.
Proven expertise and hands-on experience in Terraform, Python, Kubernetes, and cloud-based architectures—including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, and preferably AWS.
Strong familiarity with foundational security controls and concepts, specifically in modern cloud and enterprise architectures and supporting ecosystem (CI/CD) – ideally including Backstage, Harness, GitHub and Jenkins.
Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence product and platform strategy.
In addition, any experience of these would be useful
Knowledge of cloud, Kubernetes, microservice and API based architectures and their security.
Experience in financial services and regulated environments and responding to audits.
Possibly participation in an on-call rota and supporting 24/7 services.
Security certifications (e.g., CISSP, CCSP, Cloud / DevOps / Kubernetes certification).
About working for us
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
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.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
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!
