At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and support secure cryptographic services across multi-cloud environments.
- Company: Join a leading financial institution focused on security and innovation.
- Benefits: Generous pension, performance bonuses, share schemes, and 28 days' holiday.
- Other info: Diverse and inclusive workplace with excellent growth opportunities.
- Why this job: Be at the forefront of crypto technology and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience with development methods, cloud platforms, and security concepts.
The predicted salary is between 50000 - 65000 £ per year.
LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, 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 one of our office sites.
The Chief Security Office (CSO) is responsible for protecting the organisation, its customers, and colleagues by delivering secure, resilient, and compliant technology services. Within CSO, the Secrets, Keys and Certificates (SKC) team provides the cryptographic foundations that underpin the bank's digital services, cloud platforms, applications, and emerging technologies.
The team is responsible for delivering and operating enterprise cryptographic capabilities across public cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring the secure management of secrets, encryption keys, certificates, and digital identities. We work closely with engineering teams, platform providers, architects, and security specialists to enable secure innovation while meeting regulatory and security requirements.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled team at the centre of the organisation's security strategy, helping to develop and deliver core cryptographic services that support business-critical platforms and products.
What you’ll be doing:
- Designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise Secrets, Keys and Certificates (SKC) services across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.
- Delivering secure cryptographic solutions that enable application teams to protect data, identities, and business transactions.
- Supporting the lifecycle management of secrets, encryption keys, and digital certificates through automated and self-service capabilities.
- Collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams to integrate cryptographic services into new and existing platforms.
- Driving the adoption of security procedures, cryptographic standards, and secure-by-design principles across technology teams.
- Contributing to the development and evolution of cloud-native security capabilities, including key management, certificate automation, and secrets management services.
- Supporting operational resilience through monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, and continuous service improvement activities.
- Working with internal team members and external vendors to deliver strategic security initiatives and platform improvements.
- Crafting and maintaining technical documentation, standards, and mentorship to support effective service adoption and governance.
- Finding opportunities to simplify processes, improve automation, and enhance the overall developer experience for consumers of cryptographic services.
- Contributing to regulatory, audit, and risk management activities relating to cryptographic controls and security services.
- Supporting innovation initiatives and emerging technologies, including cloud transformation, digital identity, and distributed ledger platforms.
What we’re looking for:
- Working knowledge and hands-on experience employing up-to-date development methods and technologies.
- Working knowledge and hands-on experience of key SecDevOps concepts, tooling and programming / scripting languages:
- GitHub (Source Control)
- IDE / Interactive Development Environments (IDE)
- Command Line Interface (CLI), Bash, Python
- CI/CD, IaC, PaaS
- Cloud Platforms (Azure and Google Cloud Platform)
- Previous experience of working in Financial Services organisations.
- Excellent Problem-Solving skills.
- Cloud and/or Security certifications.
- Worked within a Technical / Engineering team.
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
- 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
- A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
Infrastructure Engineer - Crypto Lab employer: LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
Lloyds Banking Group is an exceptional employer that prioritises employee well-being and professional growth, offering a dynamic work culture that fosters collaboration and innovation. With the flexibility of remote working and opportunities for career advancement within the Economic Crime Prevention function, employees can thrive in a supportive environment while contributing to meaningful compliance efforts. The company's commitment to diversity and inclusion further enhances its appeal, making it a rewarding place to build a career.
