Cloud Security Architect
Lloyds Banking Group
Overview
In this Cloud Security Architect role, you will shape secure multi-cloud architectures and establish guardrails to accelerate delivery. You’ll drive threat modelling, risk-based decisions, and secure-by-design governance across Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments. You’ll partner with engineering and product teams to embed security early and address security gaps in architecture proposals. Join a fast-moving transformation focused on secure, scalable cloud solutions for millions of customers.
Pay / Benefits- A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
- Annual performance-related bonus
- Share schemes including free shares
- Lifestyle-adaptive benefits (discounts)
- 30 days’ holiday + bank holidays
- Wellbeing initiatives and parental leave policies
- 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 and define preventative/detective controls
- Partner with engineering and product teams to embed security guardrails at design time ensuring compliance and resilience
- Review external architecture proposals to 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 and address them proactively
- Governance, risk & compliance: risk-based decisions and adherence to standards
- Threat modelling and risk management for complex cloud systems
- Broad cloud security expertise across Azure, GCP and related domains; familiarity with AWS desirable
- AI/ML security knowledge and applying controls for AI deployments in cloud
- Application security including CI/CD security and secure software supply chain
- Data security (keys, certificates, secrets management)
- Identity and access management at scale
- Infrastructure security (Kubernetes, API security, IaC security)
- Network security (Zero Trust, firewalls, segmentation, DDoS protection)
- Security logging and monitoring (SIEM integration)
- CISSP, CCSP or equivalent certifications; Azure/GCP security engineer or architect certifications
- cross-functional collaboration
- proactive problem-solving
- clear risk communication
- Azure
- GCP
- multi-cloud security architecture
Reference: WJ-747_30165220