About the Role
Develop secure multi-cloud architectures that accelerate delivery by making risk-based decisions, standardizing reference patterns, and turning sophisticated threats into clear guardrails.
Responsibilities
- Develop and enforce reference architectures, patterns, and blueprints for secure cloud adoption across Azure, GCP and hybrid environments.
- Conduct threat modelling and security assessments for new cloud services, defining preventative and detective controls to maintain secure posture and detect drift.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security guardrails early in design, ensuring compliance and resilience.
- Review external architecture proposals and identify security gaps.
- Document and uphold secure-by-design principles and architecture governance.
- Collaborate with senior partners to articulate security risks and mitigations.
- Anticipate customer needs taking proactive steps to address them.
Requirements
- Risk-based decisions, adherence to regulatory and internal security standards.
- Identify threats and mitigations for complex cloud systems.
- Broad knowledge across security domains and their capabilities within Azure/GCP and SME experience in at least one area.
- Familiarity in AWS is also desirable.
- Knowledge of AI/ML threats and risks, with experience applying security controls for secure deployment of AI services in cloud platforms.
- CI/CD Security including secure software supply chain.
- Key, certificate and secrets Management.
- Securing user/non-user access at scale.
- Kubernetes (AKS/GKE/Istio), API Security, IaC security (e.g. Terraform, ARM templates).
- Zero Trust, firewalls, segmentation, DDoS Protection.
- Security logging, SIEM integration, event correlation.
Skills
- Cloud Security
- Azure
- GCP
- AWS
- AI/ML security
- Application Security
- Data Security
- Identity and Access Management
- Infrastructure Security
- Kubernetes
- API Security
- IaC security
- Terraform
- ARM templates
- Network Security
- Zero Trust
- Firewalls
- Segmentation
- DDoS Protection
- Security Logging and Monitoring
- SIEM integration
Location
- Manchester
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid Working
- Job Share
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Education Level
- CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent certifications.
- Azure Security Engineer Associate, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect.
Salary/Compensations
- £72,702 - £80,780
- £72,702-£88,858 (Manchester)
- £84,051-£93,390 (London)
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
About the Company
- At Lloyds Banking Group, our purpose is simple: Help Britain Prosper.
- As we transform into the UK’s leading FinTech, we’re modernising our technology and security capabilities to protect our customers and enable innovation at scale.
- The Cloud Enterprise & Compute Security Lab is at the forefront of this transformation driving secure-by-design principles across multi-cloud environments.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.
- And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
