Technical Security Specialist

At Lloyds Banking Group we’re building the bank of the future, and we want your help to ensure we do that with security at the heart of all of our change. With over 26 million customers, we’re the UK’s largest Retail and Digital Bank, and with 100,000 colleagues, the scale of services, customers, and colleagues you can help protect is EPIC.

The Groups’ purpose is to help Britain prosper by operating as a responsible, sustainable, and inclusive organisation. We support this goal within Cyber Security by ensuring our design and delivery teams are equipped to make innovative and secure decisions. We put the customer first, and secure technology plays a pivotal role in how we make things more accessible, secure, and convenient for people.

Sounds an exciting prospect, right? Are you someone who wants to be in at the heart of this change, working in an agile way to deliver new, innovative digital finance technologies, that are securely future-proofed. Being resilient and scalable to meet the needs of our business and the pace of our growth.

About the role

Your key responsibilities as a Technical Security Specialist will be assessing systems against internal security frameworks and baseline build requirements including:

• Using DevOps tools to automate the review and approval of security artefacts
• Working with Cloud Security Engineers to drive consistent re-use of security artefacts
• Working on Cloud Security portals to configure policies
• Understanding the impact of changes to technology roadmaps and any impacts to existing or new security artefacts (e.g. patterns)
• Development, maintenance and enhancement of key Cyber Security Services; including: procedures, processes and associated templates and documentation

A little about you:

The ideal candidate is someone who has a strong technical knowledge including the following:

• Be self-sufficient (eager to pick things up, learn what’s needed and deliver)
• Outcome focussed, able to deliver the end goal whilst ensuring the detail meets the outcomes needs
• Broad understanding across Cyber Security domains and Cloud Security (GCP, Azure)
• Hands on technical experience and ability to read code
• Developer experience would be advantageous
• Champion a secure-by-design and secure throughout the lifecycle across LBG
• Passionate about automating repetitive tasks
• Familiarity in scripting languages i.e. python, PowerShell, bash etc.
• Clear understanding of Docker and Kubernetes technologies

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure that 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 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 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
• Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive?

Apply today and find out more

Hours: Full time

Working Pattern: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office site