Web Application Firewall Engineer

End Date Wednesday 21 August 2024
Salary Range £68,202 – £75,780
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Job Description Summary

Job Description

JOB TITLE: Web Application Firewall Engineer
SALARY: £68,202 – £75,780
LOCATION(S): Leeds
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 our office location.

About this opportunity

At Lloyds Banking Group we’re driven by a clear purpose: to Help Britain Prosper. Within the Chief Security Office, our role is to protect the Group and our customers from security threats, and to enable the Group’s businesses to make change to their services safely and quickly.
We are looking for a Senior Web Application Firewall Engineer with the potential, passion and an aim to embark on their journey within Cyber.
Are you curious about Cyber, Application security and the roles they play in protecting millions of peoples’ money and data, day in, day out? Are you forward thinking and love analysing and solving problems? Can you work optimally as part of a team ensuring we’re creating a bank of the future? Do you have a passion for forming and redefining security in banking to meet our customers’ needs and help us to be the best bank for Britain? Are you enthusiastic, a good communicator, who is always keen to keep learning and developing?

If this sounds exciting and you want to help build the bank of the future, this Web Application Firewall Engineer role is for you. We’re a passionate and dedicated team who thrive in tackling tough and meaningful problems. Delivering a Web Application Security solutions with WAF and RASP provides our team opportunities to expand our own personal and professional skillsets.

Key responsibilities:

• Assisting the Web Application Security Product Owner providing specialist advice and guidance within an Agile environment.
• Communicate tactfully with customers; assemble and present information, providing diagnostic and resolution steps and conveying process and product guidance
• Providing technical support for incidents, problems and changes
• Continuously increase knowledge and help train the team on Web Application Security
• Contribute to product documentation, knowledge base, and bank standards
• Continuously improve processes and tools in collaboration with the team
• This is an operational role and there is a requirement to Support out of hours services through the On-Call rota. (This has additional Compensation)
• Effective communicator who can translate complex processes, risks and ensure WAS issues are understood by business colleagues and senior leaders.

Why Lloyds Banking Group:

We’re on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we’re shaping finance for good. We’re focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you.
What you’ll need

• Well-rounded knowledge and hands on experience of cloud platforms, ideally with either professional / Associate certified
• Shown systematic, logical and creative thinking skills
• Evidence of passion for developing and implementing new insights and solutions
• Methodical and detail orientated approach, capable of prioritising and handling multiple tasks
• Ability to communicate effectively in a variety of situations
• An awareness and understanding of risk, controls and the associated impact
• Experienced user of Web Application Security tooling to deliver applications and infrastructure
• Consumption or operational experience of Cloud Armour and or Azure App Gateway in a production environment
• And any experience of these would be really useful
• Ideally, you’ll have acquired an internet security/networking background (i.e. CISCO certification).
• Incident support and change experience would also be extremely desirable.

About working for us:

Our focus is to ensure we’re inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
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
• Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

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.

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