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Autonomous agents executing offensive security workloads demand an unusually high bar: strong isolation, tightly controlled egress, hardened runtimes, and complete evidential traceability. You will design that platform - making it fast for researchers and engineers to work on, and impossible to misuse.\nWhat you’ll be doing:\nDesign, build, and operate the Kubernetes-based platform hosting agentic research workloads, including ephemeral and isolated execution environments.\nOwn infrastructure-as-code across GCP using Terraform, delivering reproducible, reviewable, and policy-compliant environments.\nEngineer secure container and VM images with hardened baselines, minimal attack surface, and automated patching.\nImplement egress-controlled networking, network policy, service mesh controls, and segmentation to ensure agents can only reach sanctioned targets.\nBuild CI/CD pipelines with integrated supply-chain security: SBOMs, image signing, artefact provenance, and automated policy gates.\nDeliver comprehensive observability - logs, metrics, distributed traces, and cost telemetry - across long-running, non-deterministic agent workloads.\nBuild evidence-capture pipelines: immutable audit trails, artefact retention, and reproducible run records suitable for assurance and regulatory scrutiny.\nManage secrets, identity, and workload authentication with least-privilege access across all platform components.\nPartner with AI Engineering to ensure agent runtimes scale efficiently and fail safely, and with Security Architecture to evidence control effectiveness.\nWhy join us?\nWe’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.\nWhat we’re looking for:\nDeep, hands-on Kubernetes experience: workload design, networking, autoscaling, RBAC, and multi-tenancy isolation.\nStrong Terraform and infrastructure-as-code skills, with a track record of managing production cloud estates.\nSubstantial GCP experience (GKE, IAM, VPC/networking, Cloud Build/Artifact Registry, or equivalents) - or comparable depth in another major cloud with willingness to work in GCP.\nContainer and VM hardening expertise, including image minimisation, runtime security, and vulnerability management.\nPractical experience implementing egress control, network policy, and segmentation in cloud-native environments.\nStrong CI/CD engineering skills and experience embedding security controls into delivery pipelines.\nObservability expertise across logging, tracing, and metrics, including designing for auditability and evidence retention.\nA security-first mindset with the judgement to balance researcher velocity against containment requirements.\nundefined\nAnd any of these would be great:\nExperience building platforms for offensive security, malware analysis, or other high-risk workloads requiring strong isolation.\nExperience supporting AI/ML or LLM workloads, including GPU scheduling, inference infrastructure, or agent runtime environments.\nCloud or Kubernetes certifications, or cyber security related qualifications and trainings.\nContributions to open-source infrastructure, platform, or security tooling.\nExperience operating within highly regulated environments such as financial services, including evidencing controls to audit and risk functions.\nWe 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.\nThis is a place for you\nOur 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 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. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.\nWe also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:\nA generous pension contribution of up to 15%\nAn annual performance-related bonus\nShare schemes including free shares\nBenefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping\n30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top\nA range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies \nReady to make an impact? Apply today.\nAt 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.\nWe 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.\nWe'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. 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