Senior DevOps Engineer - API

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VN-9903

Contractor - Daily Rate

Birmingham

Competitive

29 November 2018

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We are looking to hire a Senior DevOps Engineer - API specialist to lead a team on API development and production incident resolution.

  • Lead a DevOps team specialist on API Development & production incident resolution
  • Hands-on contribution to the technical code and design documentation
  • Develop relationships with partners & project managers by translating API requirements into design implementations & take ownership for API implementation
  • Own the Technical Relationships with various consumers of the APIs
  • Provide Technical support including Technical Enablement on Application, Solution Development and Implementation of Roadmap  & effort estimates
  • Support & undertake evaluations and technical proof-of-concepts
  • Evaluate and recommend the development methodologies, frameworks and modeling techniques
  • Identify and address design challenges and work closely with architecture community
  • Ensure that the application design is adequately documented and approved
  • 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
  • Take full ownership of code quality and implementation of API designs into fully working APIs
  • Assist developers during the development process to address any technical and design challenges
  • Govern & design CI/CD pipelines from Development through to Production implementation
  • Manage application build & deployment into cloud platforms
  • Experienced in Mule technologies (Anypoint platform) design, devlepment & implementation
  • Experience of Jenkins, Maven, Chef, Puppet
  • Working knowledge of JIRA
  • Strong experience in Java
  • Scripting abilities using Java Script, Python, Perl. Experience of React will be an added advantage
  • Experienced in agile software delivery practice using a team based at onshore & using partner resources based at offshore
  • Hands-on experience of application development & deployment in Cloud (AWS and / or Azure) & related technologies such as Serverless / Dockers
  • Solid understanding of DevOps, Continuous Integration, deployment & operations concepts & demonstrable working experience in these areas

 

Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 25 days' holiday (plus one day after two years), private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.

For more detail on this role, please contact Helen Brockbank, Resourcing Lead - helen.brockbank@landg.com

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

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.

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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

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.