Lloyds Banking Group
Cloud Security Architect
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JOB TITLE: Cloud Security Architect
SALARY: £72,702-£88,858
LOCATION: Manchester
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.
About this opportunity
At Lloyds Banking Group, our purpose is simple: Help Britain Prosper. As we transform into the UK's leading FinTech, we're modernising our technology and security capabilities to protect our customers and enable innovation at scale.
The Cloud Enterprise & Compute Security Lab is at the forefront of this transformation driving secure-by-design principles across multi-cloud environments. We're looking for a Cloud Security Architect to shape the future of cloud security architecture and deliver secure, resilient, and scalable solutions.
What you'll be doing:
- Develop and enforce reference architectures, patterns, and blueprints for secure cloud adoption across Azure, GCP and hybrid environments.
- Conduct threat modelling and security assessments for new cloud services, defining preventative and detective controls (via security guardrails) to maintain secure posture and detect drift.
- Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security guardrails early in design, ensuring compliance and resilience.
- Review external architecture proposals and identify security gaps.
- Document and uphold secure-by-design principles and architecture governance.
- Collaborate with senior partners to articulate security risks and mitigations.
- Anticipate customer needs taking proactive steps to address them.
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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.
We're looking for someone with strong technical expertise and a passion for security! Here's what we need:
Governance, Risk & Compliance:
- Risk-based decisions, adherence to regulatory and internal security standards.
Threat Modelling and Risk Management:
- Identify threats and mitigations for complex cloud systems.
Cloud Security Expertise:
- Broad knowledge across the following Security Domains and their capabilities within Azure/GCP and SME experience in at least one area. Familiarity in AWS is also desirable.
- AI/ML security: Knowledge of AI/ML threats and risks, with experience applying security controls for secure deployment of AI services in cloud platforms.
- Application Security: CI/CD Security including secure software supply chain.
- Data Security: Key, certificate and secrets Management.
- Identity and Access Management: Securing user/non-user access at scale.
- Infrastructure Security: Kubernetes (AKS/GKE/Istio), API Security, IaC security (e.g. Terraform, ARM templates).
- Network Security: Zero Trust, firewalls, segmentation, DDoS Protection.
- Security Logging and Monitoring: Security logging, SIEM integration, event correlation.
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Additional Certifications:
- CISSP, CCSP, or equivalent certifications.
- Azure Security Engineer Associate, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Google Professional Cloud Architect.
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
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, 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 neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
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
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