Cloud Security Engineer

End Date

Thursday 29 August 2024

Salary Range

£45,954 - £51,060

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Cloud Security Engineer

SALARY: £45,954 - £51,060

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Halifax, Leeds or Manchester

HOURS: Full-time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week currently, or 40% of our time at the office locations noted above.

About this opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're all driven by our purpose, to Help Britain Prosper. It's why we exist - it's our reason to get out of bed in the morning. The choices we make, our success and our future really matter.

But the world is changing, fast. And we're changing too. It's never been a more exciting time to join us as we transform our business to shape finance as a force for good.

The Cloud team is on the journey to create the next generation technical platform for Lloyds Banking Group that will be at the core of one of the UK's biggest financial service transformations. We're looking for a motivated individual to work within the Cloud Security Lab as an Engineer. The role will require you to be hands-on, to collaborate with peers to engineer new or enhance infrastructure level capabilities.

The role will involve:

• Understanding Bank Security policies and standards applicable to Cloud environments

• Building knowledge and experience of operating in Cloud environments and Engineering teams

• PoCs of new products / use-cases

• Contributing to and helping create an inclusive and collaborative environment working with other platform teams to grow develop and deliver the bank’s strategic outcome of becoming the largest UK Fintech.

• Working with a Lead Engineer to identify a domain area to focus on development and upskilling.

• Supporting SMEs with fulfilling core processes and tasks within a Product Team: fulfilling run tasks, delivering enhancements to existing capabilities / processes

• Working with mentor to develop and enhance onboarding and upskilling processes for new joiners to the team

• Self-managing and proactive attitude and approach to tasks assigned

Why Lloyds Banking Group

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data, and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.

What you’ll need

• Working knowledge and hands-on experience of working on Cloud Environments

• Working knowledge and hands-on experience of key DevOps concepts, tools and languages: Source Control (GitHub), IDE / Interactive Development Environments (IDE), Command Line Interface (CLI); Terraform, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, IaC, PaaS

• Passionate about technology - wanting to commit to building skills to advance a career in Cloud Engineering and Cyber Security

• Readiness to take on challenges and willingness to learn - identifying areas requiring support to fulfil tasks, confidence to engage experienced team members to help with upskilling when needed

• Growth / resilient mindset: ability to take on challenges and develop an approach to overcome knowledge gaps / areas requiring upskilling

• Able to be work with other engineers, understand tasks, manage stakeholders with progress updates / support needed as tasks are delivered

• Awareness of the objectives of the Bank with its cloud vision, appreciation of the scope, pressures and demands of the role and dedication to put in the required effort to upskill to become a skilled and effective engineer in the team.

• Able to demonstrate completion of technical, hands-on tasks (writing code, interacting with APIs, deploying / managing infrastructure, Cloud / Security focused qualifications).

And any experience of these would be really useful

• Previous experience of working in Financial Services organisations

• Excellent Problem-Solving skills

• Cloud and/or Security certifications

• Worked within a Technical / Engineering team

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.

• Generous holiday allowance, 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.

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.