Hybrid Infrastructure Engineering Lead – Edge Security

at Lloyds Banking Group

• Job title: Infrastructure Engineering Lead – Edge Security
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: £92,701 - £109,060 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Python, Terraform
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Leeds, United Kingdom

About the role

• Lead Infrastructure Engineer driving Edge Security capabilities for Lloyds Banking Group. Focusing on web access protection, Zero Trust architectures, and modern security engineering approaches.

Responsibilities

• Leading our security initiatives using modern engineering techniques and maintaining the outstanding security and robustness of our digital infrastructure.
• Providing hands-on DevOps engineering expertise, embedding modern practices such as Infrastructure as Code, Policy as Code, CI/CD, API‑driven automation, automated testing, and observability into all solutions.
• Mentoring and supporting engineers across the Edge Security space - helping them grow technically, navigate challenges, and embrace modern engineering practices.
• Delivering essential security technologies for web access, Zero Trust frameworks, layer 7 controls, and SASE implementation support.
• Simplifying and modernising our technology estate through smart design and automation, reducing manual processes and operational complexity.
• Guiding the adoption of Zero Trust by applying identity-first access, micro-segmentation, and continuous verification principles to internal platforms.
• Collaborating multi-functionally with product owners, platform teams, compliance, and risk to align security outcomes with business goals.
• Remaining current on emerging security threats, technologies, and modern engineering techniques - and implementing them for tangible improvements.

Requirements

• Proven, hands-on modern engineering experience across infrastructure, policy and config as code, with recent delivery using CI/CD pipelines and tooling such as GitHub, Terraform and Python.
• A strong background in enterprise security architecture, including Zero Trust, networking, layer 7 controls, and SASE technologies.
• Proven experience in guiding and mentoring engineering teams within complex, regulated environments (e.g., finance, government, or large-scale tech).
• A track record of building resilient, low-maintenance, and observable systems, and improving developer workflows.
• Collaboration and partner engagement skills — comfortable working across engineering, product, risk, and governance functions.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), modern networking, containerisation, and security tooling.
• Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, CISSP, CCSP, or cloud security credentials.

Benefits

• 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