Cloud Infrastructure Architect

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VN-16524

Permanent

Redhill

Competitive

24 March 2020

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Cloud Infrastructure Architect - Legal & General Insurance are undertaking a 5 year transformation program which will see many of its legacy applications re-written, re-factored and migrated from on-premise data centres to Cloud.

Legal & General Insurance are undertaking a 5 year transformation program which will see many of its legacy applications re-written, re-factored and migrated from on-premise data centres to Cloud hosted. This key role is critical to the design of the infrastructure and application build to support this multi-million pound strategic program.

 

  • Taking on architectural ownership of LGI Azure Cloud infrastructure environment
  • Working closely with the Enterprise Architect to design and maintain a secure, resilient and scalable Azure cloud environment
  • Ensure that architecture principles are developed for the cloud environment with compliance to overall Divisional and Group IT Policies
  • Create and maintain the design documentations for the Cloud infrastructure environment   
  • Design appropriate Cloud infrastructure architecture to support application teams in their adoption of Cloud
  • Work with business stakeholders to identify strategic cloud adoption requirements
  • Designs and orchestrates POCs and feasibility studies to validate next-gen product concepts and technologies leveraging results to guide business and technology decisions
  • Work closely with IT Security, Compliance, and Risk Teams to ensure all solutions are Secure by Design and Secure in Practice
  • Work with Scrum masters, product owners, Cloud engineers and other functional teams to translate the roadmap into releases
  • Keep abreast of and gain expertise in the evolving technology and understand how new technologies could be applied to our Cloud estate
  • Strong skills in designing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure in Azure
  • Strong technical skills in Building and Maintaining Azure Cloud Infrastructure
  • Must be technically Hands-on and has track record of building/provisioning large and complex Azure Cloud environments
  • Good understanding and usage of Azure Foundations and Scaffolding
  • Azure IaaS, PaaS and SaaS Connectivity
  • Azure Networking (Express Route, Virtual Networks, ASG / NSG, Azure Firewall)
  • Azure Active Directory, Identity Management, RBAC, AAD Connect
  • Azure SQL - PaaS Databases and Managed Instance
  • Azure Virtual Machines, Storage provisioning and configurations
  • Azure BLOB, Data Factory and PaaS Storage provisioning
  • Windows Server 2012 / 2016
  • Linux VM in Azure
  • DNS, UDR, Traffic Manager setup
  • Azure Automation with PowerShell and ARM Templates, Preferably Terraform or Ansible
  • Virtualisation technologies
  • Capacity planning
  • Security Configurations
  • Azure Security centre, Log analytics and Azure monitor
  • Azure update management, End point protection and Antimalware/Antivirus solutions
  • Azure Network IP design and configurations
  • Experience in designing / building a Web DMZ/Gateway is a plus
  • Understanding of change management process
  • High standard of documentation
  • Mentoring of junior team members
  • Azure Cost / billing management
  • Self-motivation towards personal development
  • Understanding and delivery of high-availability requirements

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

•              30 holiday days

•              12% car allowance scheme

•              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 here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.

About the business area

At Legal & General Insurance we look after our customers throughout life, death and everything in between so that you know that everything that’s important to you is protected. With over 180 years’ experience in providing Insurance policies, our customers trust us to be there and to do the right thing.

 

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

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About L&G

Working here is about being there for our customers; we’re available should the worst happen and we work together to enable social and financial equality across the UK. But it’s also about you –how you develop and what you can achieve. We’ll help your talent thrive in an environment where you’ll be supported to work flexibly and autonomously, sharing in our success and rewarded for a great performance with a generous benefits package.

About the business area

At Legal & General Insurance we look after our customers throughout life, death and everything in between so that you know that everything that’s important to you is protected. With over 180 years’ experience in providing Insurance policies, our customers trust us to be there and to do the right thing.

 

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