Software Engineer - Cyber Security Assured Design

Cyber Security Assured Design sits at the heart of this ambition. We enable secure-by-design principles across platforms and applications, ensuring that modern architectures-particularly cloud-native and microservices-based solutions-are built to meet both security and business outcomes from day one. Working closely with engineering, architecture, and platform teams, you'll help shape secure design patterns, standards, and reusable components across our GCP ecosystem. This is an opportunity to influence at scale, embedding security into the development lifecycle and accelerating delivery through automation and simplification. What you'll be doing:

• Designing, developing, and evolving secure design patterns for cloud-native and microservices architectures
• Building and maintaining reusable security components, frameworks, and reference implementations
• Developing Python-based services, tooling, or automation to enable secure-by-design adoption
• Supporting engineering teams in embedding security controls within CI/CD pipelines
• Working with GCP services to design scalable, resilient, and secure architectures
• Translating security requirements into practical, developer-friendly implementations
• Contributing to and maintaining secure design documentation, standards, and guidance
• Collaborating with architects and product teams to ensure security is embedded early in design decisions
• Continuously improving developer experience and self-service security capabilities
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.


• Familiarity in scripting languages i.e. harness pipeline, Python script, JavaScript, Jekyll, Liquid, PowerShell
• Hands on technical experience and ability to write, trouble shoot and fix code
• A level of understanding across Cyber Security domains and Cloud Security (GCP, Azure)
• Outcome focussed, able to deliver the end goal whilst ensuring the detail meets the outcomes needs
• Deliver a secure-by-design and secure throughout the lifecycle across LBG
• Passionate about automating repetitive tasks
• Clear understanding of software containerisation and respective technologies
  
  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
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies