
Infrastructure Engineering Lead – Edge Security
Lloyds Banking Group
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Leeds • United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £92,701 - £109,060 per year
Job Level
About the role
- 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
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Hard Skills & Tools
DevOps engineeringInfrastructure as CodePolicy as CodeCI/CDAPI-driven automationautomated testingobservabilityZero Trustlayer 7 controlsSASE
Soft Skills
mentoringcollaborationpartner engagementguidancesupporting engineers
Certifications
Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity FundamentalsCISSPCCSP