Senior DevOps/Platform Engineer – Autonomous Vulnerability Research

Salary: £44,000 - 76,000 per year

Requirements:

• Deep, hands-on Kubernetes experience, including workload design, networking, autoscaling, RBAC, and multi-tenancy isolation.
• Strong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code skills, with experience managing production cloud estates.
• Substantial GCP experience (such as GKE, IAM, VPC/networking, Cloud Build, or Artifact Registry), or comparable depth in another major cloud and willingness to work in GCP.
• Container and VM hardening expertise, including image minimisation, runtime security, and vulnerability management.
• Practical experience implementing egress control, network policy, and segmentation in cloud-native environments.
• Strong CI/CD engineering skills and experience embedding security controls into delivery pipelines.
• Observability expertise across logging, tracing, and metrics, including designing for auditability and evidence retention.
• A security-first mindset and judgement to balance researcher velocity with containment requirements.
• Desirable: Experience building platforms for offensive security, malware analysis, or other high-risk workloads requiring strong isolation.
• Desirable: Experience supporting AI/ML or LLM workloads, including GPU scheduling, inference infrastructure, or agent runtime environments.
• Desirable: Cloud or Kubernetes certifications, or cybersecurity-related qualifications and training.
• Desirable: Contributions to open-source infrastructure, platform, or security tooling.
• Desirable: Experience in highly regulated environments, such as financial services, including evidencing controls to audit and risk functions.
• We welcome applicants with relevant transferable experience and recognise that skills can be developed in many ways.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and operate the Kubernetes-based platform hosting agentic research workloads, including ephemeral and isolated execution environments.
• Own infrastructure-as-code across GCP using Terraform, delivering reproducible, reviewable, and policy-compliant environments.
• Engineer secure container and VM images with hardened baselines, minimal attack surfaces, and automated patching.
• Implement egress-controlled networking, network policy, service mesh controls, and segmentation so agents can reach only sanctioned targets.
• Build CI/CD pipelines with integrated supply-chain security, including SBOMs, image signing, artefact provenance, and automated policy gates.
• Deliver observability across logs, metrics, distributed traces, and cost telemetry for long-running, non-deterministic agent workloads.
• Build evidence-capture pipelines, including immutable audit trails, artefact retention, and reproducible run records for assurance and regulatory scrutiny.
• Manage secrets, identity, and workload authentication using least-privilege access across platform components.
• Partner with AI Engineering to help agent runtimes scale efficiently and fail safely, and with Security Architecture to evidence control effectiveness.

Technologies:

• AI
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevOps
• GCP
• IAM
• Support
• Kubernetes
• LLM
• Network
• RBAC
• Security
• Terraform

More:

We are hiring a Senior DevOps / Platform Engineer for our new Autonomous Vulnerability Research (Harness Engineering) Team within the Chief Security Office. Our team is building the Groups agentic vulnerability research platform to support AI-powered vulnerability discovery, exploit validation, risk prioritisation, and remediation verification. The role is full-time, based in Manchester, Bristol, Edinburgh, or London, with hybrid working requiring at least two days per week or 40% of working time at an office site. The salary range is £72,702–£88,858 outside London and £84,051–£102,729 in London. At Lloyds Banking Group, our purpose is to help Britain prosper, and we offer opportunities to shape the future of financial services and to learn, grow, and develop. Our benefits include a pension contribution of up to 15%, an annual performance-related bonus, share schemes including free shares, adaptable lifestyle benefits, 30 days holiday plus bank holidays, wellbeing initiatives, and parental leave policies. We are committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and reasonable adjustments throughout the workplace and recruitment process.

last updated 40 week of 2026