Description
JOB TITLE: Lead Infrastructure Engineer – Edge Security
SALARY: £92,701 - £109,060
LOCATION(S): Leeds, Edinburgh, Manchester
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 our customers from security threats. We’re responsible for defining and communicating Lloyds Banking Group’s security strategy and providing critical Enterprise Security Services that not only operate the controls keeping the Group safe whilst also enabling the digital transformation agenda of the wider organisation!
Lloyds Banking Group is looking for a forward-thinking Engineering Lead to drive the development of our Edge Security capabilities, encompassing secure web access, layer7 controls, and Zero Trust architectures. As we introduce a new SASE capability, we’re seeking someone with demonstrated experience in delivering comparable solutions and shaping modern security engineering approaches.
This role is ideal for senior engineering leaders with recent, hands-on technical experience, comfortable working directly with code, automation, and modern delivery pipelines. As we move from ClickOps to DevOps, the role requires hands-on code development to automate, improve, and scale how we manage and deliver these services.
You’ll balance strategic oversight with direct technical contribution—fostering engineering excellence, embedding modern practices, and guiding the team through best practice implementation. This team is responsible for protecting the digital perimeter of one of the UK’s most trusted institutions, including web access protection, web application firewalls (WAFs), and Zero Trust architectures.
This is a unique opportunity to coach and develop a talented group of engineers and product professionals, delivering security solutions that are scalable, resilient, and built for automation. We're looking for someone who combines deep technical expertise, a strong engineering mindset, and a collaborative leadership style, with the coding capability required to lead by example and uplift the team!
What you’ll be doing:
The role involves leading our security initiatives using modern engineering techniques and maintaining the outstanding security and robustness of our digital infrastructure.
1. 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.
2. Mentoring and supporting engineers across the Edge Security space - helping them grow technically, navigate challenges, and embrace modern engineering practices.
3. Delivering essential security technologies for web access, Zero Trust frameworks, layer 7 controls, and SASE implementation support.
4. Simplifying and modernising our technology estate through smart design and automation, reducing manual processes and operational complexity.
5. Guiding the adoption of Zero Trust by applying identity-first access, micro-segmentation, and continuous verification principles to internal platforms.
6. Collaborating multi-functionally with product owners, platform teams, compliance, and risk to align security outcomes with business goals.
7. Remaining current on emerging security threats, technologies, and modern engineering techniques - and implementing them for tangible improvements.
Why join us?
We’re transforming at pace. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to change the way we meet the needs of our 28 million customers. We’re growing, and we’d love you to be part of the journey.
What we’re looking for:
8. 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.
9. A strong background in enterprise security architecture, including Zero Trust, networking, layer 7 controls, and SASE technologies.
10. Proven experience in guiding and mentoring engineering teams within complex, regulated environments (e.g., finance, government, or large-scale tech).
11. A track record of building resilient, low-maintenance, and observable systems, and improving developer workflows.
12. Collaboration and partner engagement skills — comfortable working across engineering, product, risk, and governance functions.
13. Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP), modern networking, containerisation, and security tooling.
And any of these would be great:
14. Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, CISSP, CCSP, or cloud security credentials.
This is a place for you
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
15. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
16. An annual performance-related bonus
17. Share schemes including free shares
18. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
19. 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
20. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready to make an impact? Apply today.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.