Cloud DevOps Engineer

Legal & General looks after around 700,000 institutional customers who have their retirement benefits secured with us. Operating continuously in the UK market from our entrance in 1987, we are the UK’s longest-running insurer.

Our Institutional Retirement division provides pension risk transfer (PRT) solutions for UK and US defined benefit (DB) schemes, and reinsurance solutions from our global hub in Bermuda. We work with companies, DB pension schemes and their advisors to help them secure and protect scheme members’ retirement benefits.

Joining us means you’ll support customers’ financial security in retirement; help companies to settle their pension liabilities and focus on growing their businesses; and enable investment for the long term to back our pension promises.

We are seeking a talented DevOps Engineer to join our Cloud Services team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the efficient delivery of DevOps capabilities, supporting Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes. This role involves close collaboration with various internal teams, including Development, Cloud, Data, and Test Automation, as well as third-party service providers.

What you'll be doing:

• Championing the use of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies to automate the setup, configuration, and management of infrastructure, ensuring consistent environments, reducing manual errors, and enhancing operational efficiency
• Developing self-service capabilities, including guides, templates, and automations, and provide training on the optimal use of DevOps tools
• Configuring and maintaining DevOps tooling that supports pipelines, repositories, release management, and work management
• Building IaC/Configuration as Code (CaC) and application code pipelines to contribute to projects and continuously improve the core platform and common modules
• Overseeing capacity, availability, change management, and knowledge management activities for the services offered by the Cloud DevOps team, and engage in continual service improvements as part of daily operations
• Staying informed about the DevOps tooling landscape through industry and internal sources to ensure that L&G remains at the forefront of technological advancements
• Embedding the principles of Conduct Risk into daily operations to deliver positive customer outcomes

Who we're looking for:

• Knowledge of cloud services, preferably Microsoft Azure
• Extensive knowledge of DevOps practices, including CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code and module-based deployment, modern operations and observability
• Wide experience building and improving CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and applications to incorporate security, operability, performance and other concerns
• Demonstrable experience with continuous build and integration tools and IaC/CaC technologies (Jenkins, Git, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform)
• Ability to build relationships with the appropriate stakeholders
• Ability to influence and encourage adoption of modern Devops tools and practices
   

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer: 

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes  
• Generous pension contribution  
• Life assurance   
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only) 
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday 
• Competitive family leave 
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice 
• There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online   
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart 

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.