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JOB TITLE: Could Security Engineer (AWS)

SALARY: £45,954 - £51,060

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester, Halifax or Leeds  

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office location listed above.

About this opportunity

Our Cloud Enterprise Security department is looking for a motivated person to ensure that the appropriate security controls are in place, focusing on keeping bank services safe while simultaneously supporting programme timescales and business outcomes.

Security is at the heart of everything we do at LBG, and you would be contributing to building a secure culture. With a secure mindset, you will help provide strong and resilient business solutions that safeguard our business and customers from security threats.

The role will have end-to-end accountabilities including the following:

• The role will require you to be ‘hands-on,’ to collaborate with peers to ensure that security is incorporated into all aspects of our deliveries

• The goal is to allow projects onboarded on our AWS Cloud Native Environment to safely go faster, and support them with a customer centric approach

• Contributing to team and platform maturity with recommendations, ideas, and improvements

• Ability to build strong collaborative relationships, including well developed influencing and communication skills

• Balancing the needs of the business and security with a risk-based approach to ensure that we are compliant from a policy and governance perspective

• Accountability for writing and maintaining security controls within an AWS multi-account environment, with a focus on SaaS connectivity to third parties

Why Lloyds Banking Group

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. Including you.
 

What you’ll need

• Demonstrable experience working with Amazon Web Services

• Technical and practical real-world experience of information security is a desirable trait, even if no previous role was formally in security

• Technical experience working with variety of technologies, with a focus on automation and ideally DevOps/DevSecOps e.g. Jenkins, GitHub, CI/CD, continuous Cloud compliance enforcement, guardrail & control definition, Terraform, AWS DevOps – the list is purely indicative

• Roles in large enterprise/regulated industry

• Experience of compliance/ assurance activity against bank policy and standards within a governance framework

• Providing guidance and input for security designs being delivered by partners

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. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance

• 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

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.