Junior Azure 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 looking for an Associate Cloud Engineer to join our dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will play a crucial part in maintaining and enhancing our Azure environments and applications. You will have the opportunity to directly engage in cloud infrastructure support, contribute to engineering tasks on smaller projects, and collaborate with experienced engineers on larger, impactful initiatives. This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your skills and make a significant impact within our innovative organisation.

What you'll be doing:

• Performing technical build activities under limited guidance on smaller projects, including Azure and server configuration (e.g. Windows, Linux, NGINX, Apache)
• Supporting technical build activities on larger projects including Azure and workload configuration as directed by senior engineers
• Developing and maintaining knowledge of the cloud network and wider group network to ensure all required dependencies and access requirements can be met
• Developing and maintaining knowledge of security controls and ensuring they inform our implementation and configuration practices, and call out areas of non-conformance when identified
• Drafting Low-Level Cloud Design documents for small projects
• Maintaining IT application and infrastructure technical documentation

Who we're looking for:

• Direct hands-on technical knowledge of at least one of the major public cloud providers such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Proven background in System Administration fundamentals including networking, Windows and Linux configuration, and web server stacks
• Experience with networking and web standards such as DNS, HTTP, web security mechanisms, proxies, firewalls & application delivery controllers
• Awareness of modern DevOps methodologies familiarity with continuous build and integration tools and IaC/CaC technologies (e.g. Git, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform)
• Some Azure certifications desirable

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.