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.

• Excellent Dev Ops 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.

• Line manage and coach a team of Infrastructure & Dev Ops 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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!

• Leadership experience in Dev Ops 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, Git Hub and Jenkins.
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence product and platform strategy.

• 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 / Dev Ops / Kubernetes…