Infrastructure Engineer - Crypto Lab

End Date

Friday 31 July 2026

Salary Range

£48,987 - £54,430

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options

Hybrid Working, Job Share

Job Description Summary

The Lloyds Banking Group’s Cryptography Lab is revolutionising how cryptography services are delivered to support one of the UK’s largest financial services technical transformations. Not only is Lloyds on a historic transformation journey, but cryptography is on the precipice of change due to the threats introduced by Quantum Computing. We seek a motivated SecDevOps Engineer for the Cryptography Lab to collaborate, build and improve Secret Management, Digital Certificates, and support the full lifecycle of encryption Keys. Our mission is to provide seamless and transparent cryptography solutions to the entire Group to ensure our customers’ data is protected.

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Infrastructure Engineer - Crypto Lab

SALARY: £48,987-£59,873

LOCATION(S): Edinburgh, Manchester, Leeds, Bristol

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

The Chief Security Office (CSO) is responsible for protecting the organisation, its customers, and colleagues by delivering secure, resilient, and compliant technology services. Within CSO, the Secrets, Keys and Certificates (SKC) team provides the cryptographic foundations that underpin the bank's digital services, cloud platforms, applications, and emerging technologies.

 

The team is responsible for delivering and operating enterprise cryptographic capabilities across public cloud and on-premises environments, ensuring the secure management of secrets, encryption keys, certificates, and digital identities. We work closely with engineering teams, platform providers, architects, and security specialists to enable secure innovation while meeting regulatory and security requirements.

 

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled team at the centre of the organisation's security strategy, helping to develop and deliver core cryptographic services that support business-critical platforms and products.

 

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise Secrets, Keys and Certificates (SKC) services across multi-cloud and on-premises environments.

• Delivering secure cryptographic solutions that enable application teams to protect data, identities, and business transactions.

• Supporting the lifecycle management of secrets, encryption keys, and digital certificates through automated and self-service capabilities.

• Collaborating with engineering, infrastructure, architecture, and security teams to integrate cryptographic services into new and existing platforms.

• Driving the adoption of security procedures, cryptographic standards, and secure-by-design principles across technology teams.

• Contributing to the development and evolution of cloud-native security capabilities, including key management, certificate automation, and secrets management services.

• Supporting operational resilience through monitoring, incident management, problem resolution, and continuous service improvement activities.

• Working with internal team members and external vendors to deliver strategic security initiatives and platform improvements.

• Crafting and maintaining technical documentation, standards, and mentorship to support effective service adoption and governance.

• Finding opportunities to simplify processes, improve automation, and enhance the overall developer experience for consumers of cryptographic services.

• Contributing to regulatory, audit, and risk management activities relating to cryptographic controls and security services.

• Supporting innovation initiatives and emerging technologies, including cloud transformation, digital identity, and distributed ledger platforms.

Why join us? 

If you think all banks are the same, you’re wrong. We’re a pioneering, fast-changing business that’s 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, you’ve just found it.

 

What we’re looking for:

• Working knowledge and hands-on experience employing up-to-date development methods and technologies

• Working knowledge and hands-on experience of key SecDevOps concepts, tooling and programming / scripting languages:

• Source Control (GitHub),

• IDE / Interactive Development Environments (IDE),

• Command Line Interface (CLI), Bash, Python

• Terraform, Harness, Azure DevOps,

• Containers (Docker, Kubernetes)

• CI/CD, IaC, PaaS

• Cloud Platforms (Azure and Google Cloud Platform)

 

And any of these would be great:

• Previous experience of working in Financial Services organisations

• Excellent Problem-Solving skills

• Cloud and/or Security certifications

• Worked within a Technical / Engineering team

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

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

 

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

• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

 

Ready for a career where you’ll learn and thrive? Apply today and find out more.

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.