Infrastructure Engineering Lead – Edge Security

Lloyds Banking Group

Lead Infrastructure Engineer driving Edge Security capabilities for Lloyds Banking Group. Focusing on web access protection, Zero Trust architectures, and modern security engineering approaches.

Posted 4/15/2026full-timeLeeds • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSenior💰 £92,701 - £109,060 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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

What you’ll need

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

Comp & perks

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