Senior Technical Application Specialist - Secrets Management in Leeds

Salary Range: £72,702 - £80,780

We support flexible working - Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

Location(s): Leeds, Manchester, Edinburgh, 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 one of our office sites.

Lloyds Banking Group's strategy is to Grow, Focus and Change to help Britain prosper. The Chief Security Office (CSO) provides security services that protect customer data, enable secure access to systems and services, and ensure regulatory compliance across the Group. The Cryptography Lab is evolving how security services are engineered, operated and consumed. This role plays a central part in crafting a modern approach focused on collaboration and automation within the Secrets Management team. It emphasises automation, shift-left security practices, and improving how secure secrets are delivered and consumed across the engineering community.

We are looking for a senior technical specialist who improves existing platforms and processes while helping shape the technical culture, engineering standards and ways of working within the team.

About this opportunity: We're looking for a Senior Technical Application Specialist to take ownership of Secrets management and cryptography services, with a focus on platform engineering and DevOps practices. The role is centred on the need for building and operating secure, scalable and automated services that are easy for engineering teams to consume.

What you’ll be doing:

• Design, build and operate enterprise Secrets Management services.
• Develop self-service capabilities that enable secure management and consumption of secrets.
• Implement automation using CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code.
• Design and support integration patterns for applications consuming Secrets Management services.
• Enable adoption through automation, APIs and standard integration patterns.
• Contribute to service protection, incident response, problem management and continuous improvement.

Why join us?

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.

What we’re looking for:

• Hands-on experience with HashiCorp Vault or comparable Secrets Management technologies.
• Strong understanding of secrets lifecycle management, including creation, rotation, revocation and governance.
• Experience designing and operating security-critical enterprise platforms.
• Strong automation skills using CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).
• And any of these would be great: Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms, Monitoring, observability and service reliability practices, Internal developer platforms and self-service onboarding.

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: We want to ensure all our candidates have the opportunity to shine. Please let us know if there is anything we can do to make the assessment process work for you.

Benefits:

• 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'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.