Core Platform Security - Cloud Engineer

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Job Description

JOB TITLE: Cloud Engineer – Core Platform Security      

SALARY: £86,964 - £102,310

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh  

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 one of our Edinburgh offices.

Our team

Our Cloud Services department is looking for a motivated individual to ensure that the appropriate security controls are in place, focusing on keeping bank services safe while simultaneously supporting programme timescales and business outcomes. You’ll be security requirements, designs, risks and defining controls to mitigate these risks and guiding other areas of technical programmes to embed security in the best manner for the Bank. As a Senior Cloud Security Engineer, you'll be working across the Group’s strategic cloud platforms (Azure, GCP, AWS) to realise the next generation of services that form the Bank’s vision for 2024 and beyond.

Our remit includes delivering new platforms, Security products and services whilst continually improving our existing ones. You'll be working in the Cloud Security Lab aligned to one or more Product Teams where responsibilities will include Build as well as Run tasks.

Examples of tasks will include: product / control design and governance, investigations and assessments, terraform module creation and enhancements for cloud resource delivery and consumption, supporting roadmap planning for upcoming features against consumer use-cases, defect management and incident support, platform maturity and automation...

Accountabilities

• Providing security leadership, guidance and consultation to diverse teams built from a mixture of LBG employee’s, contractors and 3rd party consultants
• Owning the end-to-end security view for specific platform components, shared services or application integration items
• Becoming an SME for Products / Services in your aligned Product Team: delivering change, fulfilling run tasks and prioritising then delivering enhancements to existing capabilities / processes
• Supporting new joiners and enhancing onboarding / upskilling processes
• Contributing on platform maturity with recommendations, ideas and improvements
• Working with an Engineer Lead and Product Owner to define a roadmap for Product Team owned Products + Services
• Self-managing and proactive approach to managing the work you're leading
• Balancing the needs of the business and security with a risk-based approach. The role will require you to be hands-on, to collaborate with peers to engineer new or enhance infrastructure level capabilities

About the role

• Working with architects and engineers to collaboratively define the mid and low level security requirements into a collection of design and engineering activities tensuring programs are delivering against agreed security standards and principles
• 'PoC' s of new products / use-cases
• Operational documentation for support and consumption of products
• Proactively identifying security risks
• Onboarding and upskilling paths for the Product Team's products, tasks and processes
• Identify shortcomings and opportunities: suggesting and implementing improvements
• Contributing to and helping build an inclusive and collaborative environment for engineers to grow, develop and deliver value to platform consumers
• Working with technical colleagues to overlay new requirements with the evolving threat landscape and work with vendors to ensure product development keeps pace with our needs.

Essential Skills

• Hands on engineering experience working with: Terraform Enterprise, Python, Bicep, , Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD, IaC, PaaS
• At least 3 years’ DevOps / Engineer experience
• Experience working on a Public Cloud - Azure, GCP or AWS
• Self-starter and able to self-manage workload
• Have the drive to improve the environment you operate within: ownership and proactiveness in identifying constraints, and idea generation to mature and deliver improvements
• Practical / theoretical experience of Cloud Security
• Ownership and proactive management of assigned work
• Able to demonstrate completion of technical, hands-on tasks (writing code, interacting with APIs, deploying / managing infrastructure, Cloud / Security focused qualifications)

Desirable

• Cloud and/or Security Certifications
• Exposure to a Cyber Security Engineering Team
• Exposure to Cloud Product Curation
• Exposure to DevSecOps
• Skills: OPA, Terraform Sentinel, Terraform Cloud, GitHub Actions, Azure Bicep, Hashicorp Vault

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.

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.  If you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to the recruitment process, just let us know.

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.

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.

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.