Technical Application Specialist

Job Title:

Technical Application Specialist

Salary: £72,702 - £88,858

Locations:
Leeds, Edinburgh, Bristol or Manchester

Hours:

Full-time

Hybrid; at least two days per week, or 40%, at one of our office sites.

Colleagues with disabilities may receive workplace adjustments in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

As part of the Assured Build team, you will support the delivery of secure, scalable platforms across LBG. Assured Build is a CSO centre of excellence that enables Platforms and Infrastructure to meet Security Relevant Configuration requirements. Your work will reinforce security configurations in static build artefacts and CI/CD pipelines, drive automation, consistency, and reuse of security artefacts, and embed security earlier into the engineering lifecycle.

• Assess systems against internal security frameworks, design and baseline build requirements.
• Use Dev Ops tools and automation to improve how security artefacts are reviewed and approved.
• Partner with Cloud Security Engineers and platform teams to drive reuse and standardisation of security artefacts.
• Configure and support cloud security policies and portals.
• Evaluate the impact of technology roadmap changes on security patterns and controls.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of cyber security services, including processes, templates, and documentation.
• Identify improvement opportunities and support continuous improvement initiatives.
• Support delivery of change initiatives, working with project and programme teams where needed.
• Deliver practical, scalable solutions that meet customer and business needs.

• A strong technical foundation with the ability to quickly learn and adapt.
• An outcome-focused approach – balancing delivery pace with quality and detail.
• Broad understanding of cyber security domains, including cloud security (Azure and/or GCP).
• Hands‑on technical experience, including the ability to read and interpret code.
• Experience applying security controls to cloud and on‑premising infrastructure.

• Generous pension contribution up to 15%.
• Annual performance‑related bonus.
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Flexible benefits that adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays.
• Well‑being initiatives and generous parental leave policies.