Infrastructure Engineer, WAF

Lloyds Banking Group

Infrastructure Engineer responsible for designing, evolving, and operating WAF platforms to protect customer services. Collaborating with teams to optimize security and operational insights while driving modernization efforts.

Posted 6/7/2026full-timeManchester • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £48,987 - £54,430 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudDNSPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

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, including 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 (with additional compensation)

Requirements

What you’ll need

A proven engineering mentality, with hands‑on experience across edge, on‑prem and cloud‑native WAF technologies
Strong automation and scripting skills (Python preferred), with practical experience using Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools (Terraform preferred) and modern 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
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

Comp & perks

A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance
Share schemes including free shares
Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

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Hard Skills & Tools

Infrastructure-as-CodeCI/CD pipelinespolicy-as-codeautomationscriptingPythonTerraformnetworkingweb fundamentalsplatform security

Soft Skills

engineering mentalityleadershipproblem-solvinginfluencecommunicationcollaborationdiagnostic skillsguidanceoperational resiliencedocumentation

Certifications

cloud certificationssecurity certificationsnetwork engineering accreditations