Software Engineer - Cyber Security Configuration Assurance

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

A major UK banking institution is seeking a Software Engineer for Cyber Security Configuration Assurance. You will manage vulnerabilities, enhance Power platform solutions, and optimize security artefacts. Ideal candidates should have strong coding skills and a background in Cyber Security. This role offers a hybrid work model and a comprehensive benefits package including a generous pension and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

30 days' holiday

Discounted shopping benefits

Qualifications

• Strong technical knowledge in scripting languages.
• Ability to write, troubleshoot, and fix code.
• Experience in Cyber Security and Cloud Security.

Responsibilities

• Understand vulnerabilities scanning and manage outcomes.
• Manage Power platform solutions and enhancements.
• Develop and maintain key Cyber Security Services.

Skills

Familiarity in scripting languages

Hands on technical experience

Understanding across Cyber Security domains

Outcome focussed

Passionate about automating repetitive tasks

Clear understanding of software containerisation

Job description

JOB TITLE: Software Engineer - Cyber Security Configuration Assurance

SALARY: £70,929 - £78,810

LOCATION(S): Manchester, Leeds, Bristol.

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 our locations noted above.

About this Opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group we're building the bank of the future, and we want your help to ensure we do that with security at the heart of all our change. With over 26 million customers, we're the UK's largest Retail and Digital Bank, and with 100,000 colleagues, the scale of services, customers, and colleagues you can help protect is EPIC.

Cyber Security Configuration Assurance enables Platforms and Infrastructure (hardware, software and/ or firmware) across LBG, to achieve the Security Relevant Configuration (SRC) compliance objectives.

We are a centre of excellence service and achieve this for our customers by assuring SRC in a defined static configuration artefact or within dynamic code stored in an integrated repository (CI/CD pipeline).

Sounds an exciting prospect, right? Are you someone who wants to be in at the heart of this change, working in an agile way, being resilient and scalable to meet the needs of our business and the pace of our growth.

Your key responsibilities as a Software Engineer will include:

• Understand vulnerabilities scanning - management of scan and outcomes
• Manage Power platform solutions & enhancements
• Manage relational database solutions & enhancements
• GitHub backend and front-end pages development
• Using DevOps tools to automate the review and approval of security artefacts
• Understanding the impact of changes to technology roadmaps and any impacts to existing or new security artefacts (e.g. patterns)
• Development, maintenance and enhancement of key Cyber Security Services including procedures, processes and associated templates and documentation

Why Lloyds Banking Group

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.

What you'll need

The ideal candidate is someone who has a strong technical knowledge including the following:

• 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

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

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

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.