Senior Cloud Engineer

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VN-23654

Permanent

London or Hove

Competitive

12 May 2023

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We have an amazing permanent opportunity for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join us here at Legal & General. The role will be a combination of doing hands on work with projects assigned to you. You'll also be overseeing work done by one of our third-party partners. You’ll be assigned a mixture of several exciting projects between 3 and 4 projects at any one time.

The exciting element to this is not only the fact that you’ll have autonomy and be involved in exciting projects, but you’ll be involved throughout entire project lifecycle (end-to-end) – doing detailed tech design, build and transition into support. Our Cloud engineers do not however get involved in support unless for escalation purposes. Therefor you won’t be assigned tickets and no out of hours work.

This role will be a hybrid set up with home working with visits to our Hove office. 

  • Developing/proving patterns using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) & Configuration-as-Code (CaC) approaches such as Terraform and Ansible.
  • Take a lead engineering role on selected projects, developing IaC and CaC to ensure automated, repeatable deployments
  • Build and evolve our IaC Terraform modules and optimise our build & release processes using your experience of YAML CI/CD pipelines to maximise consistency and repeatability in our deployment framework
  • Using your experience of cloud architecture and knowledge of the benefits and drawbacks of different methodologies to provide design input into key design decisions (KDD) and low-level designs (LLDs)Provide guidance and leadership to support project teams from formational stages (preliminary designs, estimation) and throughout the development lifecycle to ensure that infrastructure deliverables meet requirements. Apply experience to guide outsource teams to ensure they adhere to our standards and best practices
  • Enable the achievement of operational resilience needs through resilient architecture design, and the achievement of security best practices to ensure solutions are secure by design and secure in practice

In order to be successful in the application and selection process, we will be reviewing and looking for some of the following experience.

Skills & Experience

  • Skilled in building, extending and evolving Terraform Modules
  • Skilled in building YAML-based pipelines and working with git-based repos (Azure DevOps / GitHub)
  • Experience in desired state configuration / config as code using technologies such as Ansible / Puppet / Powershell DSC
  • Experience with a broad range of Azure-based services including server-based and serverless compute, database technologies, and container technologies such as Docker / Kubernetes / AKS / ACI / ARO
  • Proven background in System Administration fundamentals including networking, Windows and Linux configuration, and web server stacks.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully engage and influence senior stakeholders and a broad range of individuals across various disciplines

Knowledge

  • Broad and deep knowledge of git-based repos, deployment pipelines and desired-state configuration
  • Broad knowledge/experience of hyperscale clouds, preferably Azure

Qualifications

  • Desirable: Microsoft AZ-103/AZ-104 Azure Administrator certification and/or AZ-400 Designing & Implementing Microsoft DevOps Solutions

When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.

If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave. 

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings. 

About L&G

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

About the business area

Securing pensions over the long term can be a challenge for many businesses. Our ambition at Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) is to help companies and pension scheme trustees honour their defined benefit pension promises to their employees. We’re helping companies settle their pension liabilities so they can focus on growing their businesses, as well as helping to support their members’ financial security in retirement. And we’re investing for the long term to back our pension promises. In the last 30 years we’ve written more UK business than any other insurer, and we currently look after more than half a million pension policyholders. We're the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider, and a market-leading, multi-award winning business.  

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

How to find out more

If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact Andy Banks at andy.banks@landg.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-banks/).

If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.

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About L&G

The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.

Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands. 

We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.

We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.

At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.

Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?

About the business area

Securing pensions over the long term can be a challenge for many businesses. Our ambition at Legal & General Retirement Institutional (LGRI) is to help companies and pension scheme trustees honour their defined benefit pension promises to their employees. We’re helping companies settle their pension liabilities so they can focus on growing their businesses, as well as helping to support their members’ financial security in retirement. And we’re investing for the long term to back our pension promises. In the last 30 years we’ve written more UK business than any other insurer, and we currently look after more than half a million pension policyholders. We're the UK’s longest-serving active bulk annuity provider, and a market-leading, multi-award winning business.  

Our commitment to Equal Opportunities

Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.

We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.

We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.

We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.

So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.

How to find out more

If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact Andy Banks at andy.banks@landg.com (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-banks/).

If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.