Lead Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud & Compute Security)
Salary: £92,701 - £115,000 per annum
Location: Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh, Manchester
Hours: Full‑time – 35 hours per week
Working Pattern: Hybrid – at least two days per week (40%) at one of our office sites.
The Chief Security Office (CSO) is a vital part of delivering our vision of putting customers at the heart of everything we do, helping Britain prosper and protecting the Group and customers from security threats. As the Group continues its transformation towards its technology vision of being the UK’s biggest fintech, CSO is evolving into a highly engineering‑led function, focused on delivering security as a platform that supports and accelerates the wider business – increasing automation, improving visibility of risk, and strengthening protection across a complex, multi‑cloud environment.
The Cloud and Compute Security Lab sits at a critical inflection point in that journey and is seeking a dynamic Lead Infrastructure Engineer to join us. We are building a Unified Exposure Management (UEM) platform from the ground up – redefining how security is engineered, delivered, and operated. This is not about maintaining existing controls; it’s about creating a modern, cloud‑native security ecosystem, fully defined through Infrastructure as Code and delivered via CI/CD.
This platform will operate at enterprise scale, monitoring and protecting thousands of workloads across multi‑cloud environments, underpinning critical banking services relied on by millions of customers every day. We are embedding security directly into the engineering lifecycle, establishing contribution and federation models that allow teams to build with us, not around us. Using modern developer tooling, we are creating a platform that scales, adapts, and evolves alongside the organisation, using AI as an extra pair of hands.
The impact is real and immediate – improving resilience, reducing exposure to threats, and strengthening the trust customers place in the bank. This is an opportunity to shape the future of security in a large‑scale fintech – not just operate within it.
We’re a pioneering, fast‑changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, you’ve found it.
You don’t need to tick every box. We are more interested in how you think, how you approach problems, and your ability to build and evolve systems in a fast‑moving environment.
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers – just let us know what you need.