JOB TITLE: Infrastructure Engineer (WAF)
SALARY: £48,987 - £55,000 per annum
LOCATION: Manchester, Leeds, Edinburgh
HOURS: Full-time - 35 hours
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. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments including hybrid working expectations in line with our Flexibility Works policy.
What you'll be doing
You’ll be a key engineer responsible for designing, evolving and operating our Web Application Firewall (WAF) platforms, protecting critical customer facing services at scale.
You’ll work with modern engineering practices including automation, and secure by default design to improve resilience, performance and security across our edge, datacentre and cloud environments. This role offers real scope to influence technical direction, uplift engineering standards, and develop our WAF and wider Layer 7 security services.
Day to day you’ll operate with a high degree of autonomy and technical influence. Your responsibilities will include:
- Engineering new WAF capabilities using Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines and policy as code approaches to deliver secure, repeatable and scalable outcomes
- Playing a key role in platform modernisation and service improvements, including refactoring, automation and the reduction of technical debt
- Driving observability and operational insight by improving monitoring, alerting and telemetry to strengthen platform reliability and incident response
- Supporting major incident diagnostics, partnering closely with Security Engineering, Networks and Cloud teams
- Embedding secure by design patterns and guardrails, ensuring controls are codified, consistent and easy for platform consumers to adopt
- Producing high quality engineering documentation, including standards, patterns, platform guidance and runbooks that enable self service and repeatability
- Participating in the on call rota, contributing to the operational resilience of critical services (with additional compensation)
Why Join us?
We are a pioneering, fast‑changing business shaping finance as a force for good. If you’re after a role where you can have an impact and do the best work of your career, this is the place for you.
In this role, you'll have the chance to:
- Shape the future of WAF and Web Application Security capabilities across Lloyds Banking Group
- Contribute to engineering standards, patterns and guardrails used across multiple teams and platforms
- Work alongside highly skilled engineers in a culture that values modern engineering, automation and continuous improvement
What we're looking for?
- A proven engineering mentality, with hands on experience across edge, on prem and cloud native WAF technologies
- Strong automation and scripting skills (Python preferred), with practical experience using Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform preferred) and modern CI/CD pipelines
- Solid understanding of networking and web fundamentals, including HTTP/S, DNS, TLS and platform security concepts
- Ability to lead complex technical investigations, diagnose issues under pressure and guide others toward robust solutions
- Confidence to influence engineering decisions and contribute to strategic technical direction
Additional experience that would be great
- Knowledge of Application Security, API Security, Bot Protection and Layer 7 DDoS
- Professional level cloud certifications and/or recognised security or network engineering accreditations
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. 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.
Benefits
- 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
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