Lead DevOps Engineer

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VN-14206

Permanent

Birmingham

Competitive

30 September 2019

Senior DevOps Engineer - Cloud

 

A Jurcenko

  • Undertake application build & support activities in AWS & Azure Cloud Environments
  • Overseeing the day-to-day operations of the cloud implementations
  • Setup monitoring using cloud technologies such as AWS CloudWatch, CloudTrail and standard monitoring tools to ensure data & access security
  • Hands-on contribution to the technical code and design documentation
  • Design & Implement CI/CD pipelines
  • Support & undertake evaluations and technical proof-of-concepts
  • Understand / apply reusable code design, leverage application architecture / framework capabilities and functionality, and design / develop solutions that are highly reliable, scalable, and perform to meet business-defined service levels
  • Conduct code reviews and ensuring quality solutions are built and tested
  • Install/troubleshoot application software, user account management and installation/support of third party services (Lambda / DynamoDB / ElastiCache / S3 / CloudFront / Azure functions / etc.).
  • Coach other members of the team to undertake user account management (such as Active Directory, Cognito, SAML/SSO and IAM).
  • To escalate and report issues that is likely to cause any service outage, and internal service levels not being met.
  • To develop and engineer system solutions for large & small changes
  • Ensuring that all proposed business changes are formally mapped back to strategic goals and have documented risks, which are reviewed and managed.
  • To review advice given on any proposed system changes or designs, either throughout the project lifecycle or enhancements worked upon,  The definition of requirements for improving any of the above and the quantification of potential business benefits.
  • Seeking out, identifying and introducing new techniques and tools to continuously improve the services offered – Be open to ‘open source’ & drive culture of re-use & exploit new technologies for business benefit.

Qualifications:

  • Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator
  • AWS certified SysOps Administrator / DevOps Engineer

 

Knowledge:

  • Knowledge and hands-on working experience on Amazon Web Services (AWS Cloud)
  • Knowledge and hands-on working experience of setup & managing Azure Workloads
  • Strong hands-on scripting skills – Shell, Python
  • Experience in building pipelines for CI/CD implementations
  • AWS based Provisioning (API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, S3, CloudWatch, CloudFront, CloudFo/rmation, Security Groups, Network Routing/ACLs)
  • AWS based build, deployment and automation (CodePipeline, CodeBuild, Code Deploy)
  • Creating automation workflows with configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or AWS CloudFormation  / Azure pipeline
  • Set up & management of Microsoft – CDN, BLOB storage, Cosmos DB & Functions Proxy
  • Hands on working experience in Serverless environments
  • Understanding of development best practices in building a stable, secure & performant application

 

Skills:

  • Experience with infrastructure automation, infrastructure as code, automated application deployment, monitoring/telemetry, logging, reporting/dashboard, and continuous integration & continuous delivery technologies
  • Managing the cloud workloads & effective technical liaison with Project Managers & Developers
  • Experience of using cloud based solutions (AWS-EC2/S3, Azure)
  • Strong software implementation skills in AWS using AWS toolset
  • Proven Experience in problem analysis and development tools
  • Experience with administrating SaaS environments and tuning
  • Ability to write advanced level Python and Shell.
  • Basic knowledge of Go and/or nodeJS is a plus
  • Experience with containers and container scheduling and management platforms (such as: Docker, rkt, Mesos, or Kubernetes) would be an added advantage
  • Strong troubleshooting skills
  • Experience with Jenkins will be an added advantage

Whatever your role, Legal & General rewards ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after things that matter to you.

 

Our employees have a wide range of benefits including:

•               A generous pension scheme

•               Life assurance

•               27 holiday days

•               Overtime Pay

•               Private medical insurance

•               Performance related bonuses

•               A variety of share schemes

•               Discounts on high street and our own great products

 

Your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

About L&G

Working in Legal & General is about being there for our customers. We’re available should the worst happen and we work together to drive social and financial equality across the UK.

 

Being a part of L&G team is also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We will help your talent thrive in a supported environment with flexible working and autonomy, sharing our success and being rewarded for your performance with a generous benefits package.

 

About the business area

We care about our customers and are here to protect the things that matter to them – their home, their pet, their car and much more. At GI our mission is to grow our household insurance market share, diversify our range of products and drive innovative ways in which our customers can purchase and interact with us.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

About L&G

Working in Legal & General is about being there for our customers. We’re available should the worst happen and we work together to drive social and financial equality across the UK.

 

Being a part of L&G team is also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We will help your talent thrive in a supported environment with flexible working and autonomy, sharing our success and being rewarded for your performance with a generous benefits package.

 

About the business area

We care about our customers and are here to protect the things that matter to them – their home, their pet, their car and much more. At GI our mission is to grow our household insurance market share, diversify our range of products and drive innovative ways in which our customers can purchase and interact with us.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.