Job Details
Title: Infrastructure Engineer (WAF)
End Date: Thursday 14 May 2026
Salary Range: £48,987 – £54,430 per annum
Location: Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh
Hours: Full‑time – 35 hours per week
Working Pattern: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40%) in one of our office sites. Flexible working options available.
What You’ll Be Doing
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. Working with modern engineering practices—including automation and secure‑by‑default design—you’ll improve resilience, performance and security across our edge, datacentre and cloud environments. The role offers real scope to influence technical direction, uplift engineering standards and develop our WAF and wider Layer 7 security services.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities include:
* 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, 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 (additional compensation provided).
Why Join Us
You’ll shape the future of WAF and Web Application Security across Lloyds Banking Group, contribute to engineering standards used across multiple teams, and work alongside highly skilled engineers in a culture that values modern engineering, automation and continuous improvement.
Qualifications and Experience
* Proven engineering mindset with hands‑on experience across edge, on‑prem and cloud‑native WAF technologies.
* Strong automation and scripting skills (Python preferred); experience with Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform preferred) and 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.
Additional experience that would be advantageous:
* 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%.
* Annual bonus award subject to group performance.
* Share schemes, including free shares.
* Benefits that can be adapted to your lifestyle (e.g., discounted shopping).
* 28 days holiday, plus bank holidays.
* Range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.
We Value Diversity and Inclusion
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities. 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 neuro‑divergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
At Lloyds Banking Group we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.
Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
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