Lead Infrastructure Engineer - Server Security & Secure Browser

Lloyds Banking Group; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an experienced engineering leader in a hybrid role, based in the UK. The position emphasizes hands-on DevOps work, modern automation, and strong leadership to guide an infrastructure team through secure, scalable delivery.

You will drive from ClickOps to DevOps, embed code-driven delivery, and mentor engineers to adopt modern practices while balancing security and usability.

Qualifications

• A few years hands-on modern engineering across infrastructure, policy and config as code, with delivery using CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven success in system automation and API integrations.
• Around 5 years of leadership experience in infrastructure engineering with line management responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Line manage and mentor an engineering team, promoting a high-performance culture.
• Provide hands-on DevOps engineering expertise, embedding IaC, Policy as Code, CI/CD, API-driven automation, and observability into solutions.
• Ensure the team adopts Agile ways of working, focusing on delivering value and adapting to changing priorities.
• Maintain relationships with internal product teams and external vendors to ensure service quality.
• Balance usability and security to deliver end-user experiences while maintaining security posture.

Skills

Leadership

CI/CD

Automation

Infrastructure as Code

API integrations

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

PowerShell

Python

Job description

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester

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

The Chief Security Office (CSO) is a vital part of delivering the Group's vision of putting customers at the heart of everything we do, helping Britain prosper and protecting the Group and our customers from security threats. We're responsible for defining and communicating Lloyds Banking Group's security strategy and providing critical Enterprise Security Services that not only operate the controls keeping the Group safe whilst also enabling the digital transformation agenda of the wider organisation.

This role is ideal for a senior engineering leader with recent, hands‑on technical experience, comfortable working directly with code, automation, and modern delivery pipelines. As we move from ClickOps to DevOps, the role requires hands‑on code development to automate, improve, and scale how we lead and deliver our services.

What you'll be doing:

Line manage and mentor an engineering team, encouraging a high‑performance culture. Help them develop skills to adopt modern engineering practices. This includes transitioning from ClickOps to DevOps by using automation, delivery through code, and continuous improvement.

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.

Ensure the team adopts agile ways of working, continuously focusing on delivering value, improving flow and responding effectively to changing priorities.

Maintain strong relationships with internal product teams and external vendors to ensure service quality.

Balance usability and security to ensure effective end‑user experiences while maintaining our security posture.

Join us and, give us your best and we'll give you ours. Here, you'll make a difference to customers, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career where you're free to be yourself. Great colleagues, amazing workspaces, hybrid working and huge career opportunities‑you'll find them all here.

What we're looking for:

A few years 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, Powershell and Python.

Proven success in system automation, API integrations, and ongoing improvement.

Around 5 years of Leadership experience in infrastructure engineering with line management responsibilities.

Strong technical understanding of server endpoint security on Windows and RHEL and secure browsing solutions.

And any of these would be great:

Familiarity with additional endpoint security tools/platforms.

Previous experience with ticketing systems (JIRA, ServiceNow).

Participation in an out‑of‑hours or on‑call rota.

Relevant certifications such as Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance, and Identity Fundamentals, CISSP, CCSP, or cloud security credentials

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

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

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
• 30days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies