At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and develop secure cloud-native architectures and automation tools.
- Company: Join Lloyds Banking Group, a leader in financial services innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, generous pension, and 30 days holiday.
- Other info: Flexible working options and a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on the future of finance with cutting-edge security practices.
- Qualifications: Experience in scripting languages and understanding of Cyber Security.
The predicted salary is between 63152 - 94728 £ per year.
Salary Range: £63,152 - £94,728
We support flexible working options including Hybrid Working and Job Share.
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 (e.g., harness pipeline, Python script, JavaScript, Jekyll, Liquid, PowerShell).
- Hands-on technical experience and ability to write, troubleshoot, and fix code.
- A level of understanding across Cyber Security domains and Cloud Security (GCP, Azure).
- Outcome focused, 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.
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 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.
With 320 years under our belt, we're used to change, and today is no different. Join us and help drive this change, shaping the future of finance whilst working at pace to deliver for our customers. Here, you'll do the best work of your career. Your impact will be amplified by our scale as you learn and develop, gaining skills for the future.
Should you wish to contact us for any reason, please email us at: careers@lloydsbanking.com.
Software Engineer – Cyber Security Assured Design employer: Lloyds Bank plc
Lloyds Banking Group is an exceptional employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Cardiff that fosters professional growth and collaboration. With a competitive salary package, generous benefits including a robust pension scheme and flexible working options, employees are empowered to thrive both personally and professionally. The company prioritises inclusivity and well-being, ensuring that all team members can achieve their full potential while making a meaningful impact in the SME banking sector.
