Senior Infrastructure Engineering Lead

Lloyds Banking Group; Wellington; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 117,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading financial services group as a Senior Infrastructure Engineering Lead, where you will drive the evolution of our secure, scalable cloud infrastructure. This strategic leadership role involves collaborating across teams, implementing innovative practices, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement, all while ensuring compliance and operational excellence.

Benefits

Up to 15% employer pension contribution

Annual bonus based on Group performance

Share schemes including free shares

30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays

Wellbeing support and generous parental leave

Qualifications

• Proven experience in infrastructure and cloud security.
• Strong technical foundation in leading teams.
• Experience in managing security compliance and posture.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Shape infrastructure and security strategy.
• Lead design and implement secure cloud solutions.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cloud Platforms

DevOps

IaC

Kubernetes

Scripting

Strategic planning

Education

Experience in Cloud Platforms

Experience in Security & Compliance

Experience in Scripting & Automation

Tools

Microsoft Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Terraform

Git

Cloud security tools

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End Date

Wednesday 11 June 2025

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Flexible Working Options

Flexibility in when hours are worked, Hybrid Working, Reduced Hours

Job Description Summary

Job Description

SALARY:£90,440-117,000 pa

LOCATIONS:Edinburgh, Manchester, or Leeds

HOURS:Full-time – 35 hours per week

WORKING PATTERN:Hybrid – around 40% (or two days) in one of our office locations

About This Opportunity

Are you a seasoned infrastructure engineer ready to take the next step into a strategic leadership role? We’re looking for multipleInfrastructure Engineering Leadsto join our Chief Security Office and drive the evolution of secure, scalable, and automated cloud infrastructure across our hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Join us to shape the future of cloud security engineering while fostering a culture of innovation, automation, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

• Providetechnical leadershipto a team of engineers and strategic oversight for secure infrastructure across our security engineering labs and products.
• Shape and lead the infrastructure and security strategy and the technical roadmaps across the teams.
• Lead thedesign and implementation of scalable, secure, and compliant cloud and third-party solutions, collaborating across engineering, security, and business teams.
• ChampionDevSecOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native tooling to enhance posture and reduce friction.
• Ensure operational coverage, whilst driving automation and innovation using modern engineering practices such as Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code and engineering delivery and maintaining platform security posture.
• Incorporate best practices in network security, web application protection, and zero trust architecture to strengthen defence-in-depth strategies.
• Design and deploy Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and security controls to protect modern applications from threats and vulnerabilities.
• Guide theintegration of AI and analyticsinto security operations working with data scientists and AI engineers.
• Mentor and coach engineers, fostering a high-performing, inclusive, and growth-oriented team culture.
  
  

What You'll Need

We’re looking for a leader with a strong technical foundation and proven experience in:

Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure

• Cloud Platforms: Microsoft Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• DevOps & IaC: Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, Git
• Container security: Kubernetes (K8s)
  
  

Security & Compliance

• Cloud and application security: Cloud posture management tools (e.g. Azure Dender, GCP SCCE), WAFs (e.g. Azure WAF, Cloud Armor AWS WAF), and protection against OWASP Top 10 and emerging threats.
• Network & infrastructure security: Network security principles (e.g. segmentation, monitoring, intrusion detection/prevention). Any experience in Zero Trust architecture in cloud environments would be very desirable.
• Security Defence Centre Tools and practices.
  
  

Scripting & Automation

• Python (preferred), PowerShell, Configuration as Code principles and API integration (e.g., Microsoft Graph API)
  
  

Leadership & Strategy

• Strategic planning, innovation leadership and delivery in infrastructure and cloud security
• Budget and resource management
• Coaching, mentoring, and performance management
  
  

About Working With Us

We’re proud to be building a workplace where everyone feels they belong. We celebrate diversity in all its forms and are committed to creating an environment where you can thrive—whoever you are!

We’ve led the way with initiatives like setting diversity goals for senior roles, launching a menopause health package, and supporting colleagues through our Working with Cancer programme.

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 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 provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

What You'll Get

in addition to a competitive salary, we also offer a great range of benefits, including:

• Up to 15% employer pension contribution
• Annual bonus (based on Group performance)
• Share schemes, including free shares
• Flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• Wellbeing support and generous parental leave
  
  

If this sounds like the kind of team you’d like to be part of, we’d love to hear from you!

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. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

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