Infrastructure Engineer (Cloud) in Wellington

The Chief Security Office (CSO) is a vital part of delivering the Group's vision of putting customers at the heart of everything we do, helping Britain prosper and protecting the Group and customers from security threats. We’re responsible for defining and communicating Lloyds Banking Group's security strategy and providing a range of critical Enterprise Security Services which not only operate key controls that keep the Group safe but also enable the digital transformation agenda of the wider organisation.

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an Infrastructure Engineer to join our Cloud Enterprise & Compute Security Lab. This role focuses on designing, building, and operating cloud security frameworks and tooling that protect workloads across public and private cloud platforms. You will lead an engineering team in the delivery of automated, codified security controls and help shape the organisation’s cloud security posture.

What you’ll be doing:

• Implement, and deploy software‑defined infrastructure and cloud security tooling.
• Contribute to designs for infrastructure and cloud security tooling.
• Take ownership of complex problems and deliveries.
• Build automated security controls using CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and policy as code.
• Work in small engineering teams to deliver security focused products.
• Be part of a team owning production services across public cloud platforms, ensuring availability, reliability and security.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of cloud security policies and standards.
• Identify gaps in existing practices and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
• Share knowledge across the team and contribute to a culture of continuous learning.

What we’re looking for:

• Hands‑on experience with GCP and/or Azure (AWS desirable).
• Kubernetes administration and security, and containerised workloads.
• CI/CD tooling (Terraform, Git, Jenkins, Harness, Backstage).
• Automation and scripting using Python.
• Operating and supporting production cloud services.

And any of these would be great:

• Experience across multiple cloud providers.
• Prior experience in a regulated or large enterprise environment.
• Experience influencing or contributing to security policy.
• Understanding of cloud security standards (e.g. CIS, NIST, PCI‑DSS).

Benefits package:

• 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

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neuro‑divergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We keep your data safe. We’ll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited to an interview or accepted a verbal offer, at which point we conduct background checks. We’ll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.