Cloud Security Architect

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension contribution up to 15%

Annual performance bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Wellbeing initiatives

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Cloud Security Architect to shape the future of cloud security and deliver secure, resilient, and scalable solutions across Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments.

We focus on governance, threat modelling, and embedding security guardrails early in design, collaborating with engineering and product teams to ensure compliance and resilience.

Qualifications

• Governance, Risk & Compliance decisions based on risk assessments.
• Threat modelling and risk management for cloud systems.
• Broad cloud security knowledge across Azure, GCP; AWS familiarity desirable.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enforce reference architectures for secure cloud adoption across Azure, GCP and hybrid environments.
• Conduct threat modelling and security assessments for new cloud services with guardrails to maintain secure posture.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security guardrails early in design.
• 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.

Skills

Governance & Compliance

Threat Modelling

Cloud Security

AI/ML Security

Application Security

Data Security

Identity & Access

Infrastructure Security

Security Logging

Job description

LOCATION: Manchester, London

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites

About this opportunity

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 looking for a Cloud Security Architect to shape the future of cloud security architecture and deliver secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.

What you'll be doing:

• 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 (via security guardrails) 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.

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.

We're looking for someone with strong technical expertise and a passion for security! Here's what we need:

Governance, Risk & Compliance: Risk-based decisions, adherence to regulatory and internal security standards.

Threat Modelling and Risk Management: Identify threats and mitigations for complex cloud systems.

Cloud Security Expertise: broad knowledge across the following Security Domains and their capabilities within Azure/GCP and SME experience in at least one area. Familiarity in AWS is also desirable.

AI/ML security: Knowledge of AI/ML threats and risks, with experience applying security controls for secure deployment of AI services in cloud platforms.

Application Security: CI/CD Security including secure software supply chain.

Data Security: Key, certificate and secrets Management.

Identity and Access Management: Securing user/non-user access at scale.

Infrastructure Security: Kubernetes (AKS/GKE/Istio), API Security, IaC security (e.g. Terraform, ARM templates).

Security Logging and Monitoring: Security logging, SIEM integration, event correlation.

And any of these would be great:

CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent certifications.

Azure Security Engineer Associate, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer.

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This is a place for you

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.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• 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