Hybrid Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud & Compute Security

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About the role

  • Lead Infrastructure Engineer driving Cloud and Compute security engineering agenda at Lloyds Banking Group. Pivotal leadership role overseeing engineering execution in the hybrid, multi-cloud environment.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Requirements

  • 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.
  • 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).

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

Job title

Lead Infrastructure Engineer, Cloud & Compute Security

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

£92,701 - £109,060 per year

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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