Cloud Engineer (AWS)
- Hove
- Full-time
- Digital
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Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.
Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.
Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.
We have an exciting new opportunity for a seasoned Cloud Engineer who will join our product team. The ideal candidate will use their experience in software development to add large features, solve bugs, address technical debt, improve how we work and ultimately deliver valuable, high-quality software to our customers.
What you'll be doing:
- Delivering large, clean, maintainable features, resolve complex end-to-end issues, and defining new approaches where applicable, to deliver valuable features to our customers.
- Creating automated test approaches and strategies to maintain an appropriate quality level within your team, and thus deliver solutions which work well for all our customers.
- Leading code reviews with an emphasis on non-functional requirements and adherence to architectural principles, to ensure that we consistently deliver high-quality software to our customers.
- Taking ownership over the security assessment of the team’s solutions, and ensuring that best practice security techniques are followed, so that the Company and our customers keep our and their data as safe as possible.
- Using metrics to make data-driven decisions to continuously improve the team's approaches to deployment, monitoring, and operations, so that we can easily release and run performant and resilient systems in production.
- Taking ownership over the team’s continuous improvement, by actively improving the team's events, processes, and culture, to ensure that your team stays productive and effective.
- Managing, motivating and developing employees at all levels, in a manner that is consistent with the Company’s policies and procedures the including Partnership Agreement, to maximise the performance of the area Coach and mentor mid-level developers to broaden their responsibilities, improve their skills and remove their own blockers, by sharing experiences, successes and failures.
Who we're looking for:
- Technology-focused degree level qualifications are preferred but not essential, with demonstrable experience considered an equivalent.
- Advanced knowledge of two or more of the following is essential:
- AWS
- Docker
- Go
- IAM
- Kubernetes or other container orchestration technologies
- Networking and DNS
- Serverless
- Terraform or CloudFormation
- An advanced understanding of software testing is essential.
- Knowledge of how to lead and coach others to implement effective code reviews is essential.
- Advanced knowledge of Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and other release strategies is essential.
- Knowledge of agile software development methodologies, such as Scrum and Kanban, is essential.
- Knowledge of web security is essential.
- Experience of writing large, well-optimised and maintainable software features is essential.
- Experience of analysing, debugging, and solving highly complex problems is essential.
- Experience of considering all the relevant factors when deciding a technical approach is essential.
- Experience of working effectively in a team is essential.
- Experience of being a technical leader, mentor or coach is essential.
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.
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