Software Engineer - Cyber Security Assured Design

LLOYDS BANKING GROUP; Leeds; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 79,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension plan

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Discounts

30 days holiday

Parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Software Engineer – Cyber Security Assured Design to embed secure-by-design principles into cloud-native platforms and microservices. You’ll develop security patterns and reusable components while collaborating with engineering, architecture, and product teams.

The role involves Python-based development, secure design documentation, and enhancing CI/CD security across GCP and Azure in a hybrid working environment with multiple office sites.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with scripting languages (Python, JavaScript, PowerShell) and ability to write, troubleshoot, and fix code.
• Understanding across Cyber Security domains and Cloud Security (GCP, Azure).
• Desire to automate repetitive tasks and improve developer experience.
• Knowledge of software containerisation and related technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and evolve secure design patterns for cloud-native and microservices architectures.
• Build and maintain reusable security components, frameworks, and reference implementations.
• Develop Python-based services, tooling, or automation to enable secure-by-design adoption.
• Support engineering teams in embedding security controls within CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with GCP services to design scalable, resilient, and secure architectures.
• Translate security requirements into developer-friendly implementations.
• Contribute to secure design documentation, standards, and guidance.
• Collaborate with architects and product teams to embed security early in design decisions.
• Continuously improve developer experience and self-service security capabilities.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

PowerShell

CI/CD

Cloud security

GCP

Azure

Containerisation

Automation

DevOps

Job description

We're rebooting an icon and building the future of finance.

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer – Cyber Security Assured Design

SALARY: £63,152-£78,940

LOCATION(S): Manchester, Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh

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

Job Share; Hybrid Working

About this opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group, we’re building the bank of the future—secure, resilient, and designed for scale. Security must be embedded from the outset, not applied retrospectively.

Cyber Security Assured Design sits at the heart of this ambition. We enable secure-by-design principles across platforms and applications, ensuring that modern architectures—particularly cloud-native and microservices-based solutions—are built to meet both security and business outcomes from day one.

Working closely with engineering, architecture, and platform teams, you’ll help shape secure design patterns, standards, and reusable components across our GCP ecosystem. This is an opportunity to influence at scale, embedding security into the development lifecycle and accelerating delivery through automation and simplification.

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing, developing, and evolving secure design patterns for cloud-native and microservices architectures
• Building and maintaining reusable security components, frameworks, and reference implementations
• Developing Python-based services, tooling, or automation to enable secure-by-design adoption
• Supporting engineering teams in embedding security controls within CI/CD pipelines
• Working with GCP services to design scalable, resilient, and secure architectures
• Translating security requirements into practical, developer-friendly implementations
• Contributing to and maintaining secure design documentation, standards, and guidance
• Collaborating with architects and product teams to ensure security is embedded early in design decisions
• Continuously improving developer experience and self-service security capabilities

Why join us?

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.

What we’re looking for:

• Familiarity in scripting languages i.e. harness pipeline, Python script, JavaScript, Jekyll, Liquid, PowerShell
• Hands on technical experience and ability to write, trouble shoot and fix code
• A level of understanding across Cyber Security domains and Cloud Security (GCP, Azure)
• Outcome focussed, able to deliver the end goal whilst ensuring the detail meets the outcomes needs
• Deliver a secure-by-design and secure throughout the lifecycle across LBG
• Passionate about automating repetitive tasks
• Clear understanding of software containerisation and respective technologies

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