Cloud Engineer | IDAM

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 an experienced Cloud Engineer to join our high technical team. In this pivotal role, you will drive multiple cloud projects and continuous delivery workstreams, with a strong emphasis on designing and implementing best practices for Identity & Access Management. Your contributions will be instrumental in ensuring the security and efficiency of our cloud infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to work hands-on while also providing direction and expert guidance to our internal and outsourced infrastructure teams.

What you'll be doing:

• Using your experience of cloud architecture and relevant Identity & Access Management (IAM) principles and practices to guide cloud workload design and implementation access design, feeding into appropriate design artifacts including key design decisions (KDD) and low-level designs (LLDs)
• Engaging with our internal customers to consult on appropriate design and implementation approaches
• Providing guidance and supervision to support project teams from formational stages (preliminary designs, estimation) and throughout the development lifecycle to ensure that infrastructure deliverables meet requirements.
• Developing and implementing best practice RBAC, key/secret management and SSO in line with best practices internal organisational standards
• Implementing continuous improvement to our IAM processes and capabilities including use of Azure PIM and Sailpoint
• Interpreting group standards and implementation patterns to fit with our divisional processes and applications, working closely with group central IAM team and relevant communities of practice
• Ensuring that the cloud services are built with sufficient skill and diligence to support the business’s goals in fulfilling its consumer duty

Who we're looking for:

• Technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure and in particular services relating to IAM including Entra ID and Azure PIM
• Knowledge and experience working with a diversity of Azure services including IaaS, PaaS and CaaS services
• Strong understanding of security concepts, including, but not limited to, authentication and authorisation
• Good understanding of security and compliance frameworks
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to successfully engage and influence senior stakeholders and a broad range of individuals across various disciplines
• Some Azure certifications desirable, e.g. SC-300
• Ability to advise and influence others on best 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.