Lead Infrastructure Engineer driving Edge Security capabilities for Lloyds Banking Group. Focusing on web access protection, Zero Trust architectures, and modern security engineering approaches.
About the role
- Key engineer developing and operating Web Application Firewall (WAF) platforms at Lloyds Banking Group. Enhancing security and performance while working with modern engineering practices.
Responsibilities
- You’ll be a key engineer responsible for designing, evolving and operating our Web Application Firewall (WAF) platforms, protecting critical customer‑facing services at scale.
- You’ll work with modern engineering practices including automation, and secure‑by‑default design to improve resilience, performance and security across our edge, datacentre and cloud environments.
- Engineering new WAF capabilities using Infrastructure‑as‑Code, CI/CD pipelines and policy‑as‑code approaches to deliver secure, repeatable and scalable outcomes
- Playing a key role in platform modernisation and service improvements, including refactoring, automation and the reduction of technical debt
- Driving observability and operational insight by improving monitoring, alerting and telemetry to strengthen platform reliability and incident response
- Supporting major incident diagnostics, partnering closely with Security Engineering, Networks and Cloud teams
- Embedding secure‑by‑design patterns and guardrails, ensuring controls are codified, consistent and easy for platform consumers to adopt
- Producing high‑quality engineering documentation, including standards, patterns, platform guidance and runbooks that enable self‑service and repeatability
- Participating in the on‑call rota, contributing to the operational resilience of critical services (with additional compensation)
Requirements
- A proven engineering mentality, with hands‑on experience across edge, on‑prem and cloud‑native WAF technologies
- Strong automation and scripting skills (Python preferred), with practical experience using Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform preferred) and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of networking and web fundamentals, including HTTP/S, DNS, TLS and platform security concepts
- Ability to lead complex technical investigations, diagnose issues under pressure and guide others toward robust solutions
- Confidence to influence engineering decisions and contribute to strategic technical direction
- And any experience of these would be great…
- Knowledge of Application Security, API Security, Bot Protection and Layer 7 DDoS
- Professional‑level cloud certifications and/or recognised security or network engineering accreditations
Benefits
- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
- 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
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