Software Engineer - Cyber Security Assured Design

Lloyds Bank plc; Manchester; On-site; GBP 63,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Performance bonus

Share schemes

Discounted shopping

30 days holiday

Wellbeing & parental leave

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking a Software Engineer for Cyber Security Assured Design in Manchester. Hybrid working, two days a week in office, with a focus on secure-by-design across cloud-native platforms.

The role involves shaping secure patterns, building reusable components, and integrating security into CI/CD, primarily within GCP environments. Strong scripting and cloud security knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• Proficient in scripting and programming for security tooling.
• Experience with cloud security in multi-cloud or cloud-native environments.
• Understanding of secure-by-design principles and secure DevOps.

Responsibilities

• Design secure design patterns for cloud-native and microservices architectures.
• Build reusable security components and reference implementations.
• Develop Python-based services, tooling or automation for secure-by-design adoption.
• Support embedding security controls within CI/CD pipelines.
• Design scalable, resilient architectures using GCP services.

Skills

Python

JavaScript

CI/CD

Cloud Security

Tools

GCP

Azure

Containers

Job description

End Date

Thursday 20 August 2026

Salary Range

£63,152 - £94,728

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

Job Description

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

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

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.