Principal Solutions Engineer

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world’s largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

L&G Asset Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, providing clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, across public and private markets. As a global investor, we are present where our clients most need us – from Hong Kong and Singapore, to Chicago and major European financial hubs.

Created by combining our investment management (LGIM) and asset origination (LGC) capabilities, our Asset Management division works with our Institutional Retirement and Retail divisions to benefit our clients and customers – which include individual savers, pension scheme members and global institutions – and deliver enhanced shareholder returns.

Joining us means becoming part of a market-leading team, with capabilities across the full spectrum of asset classes, with an enduring commitment to responsible investment and creating long-term, sustainable value for our clients and partners.

We have a new opportunity for a techncial Principal Solutions Engineer to join our Cloud and Platforms team. In this pivotal role, you will be instrumental in designing, implementing, and enhancing our cloud and platform engineering capabilities and strategies within our global asset management function. Your expertise will be the cornerstone of our Internal Developer Platforms, DevOps Tooling, and platform architecture.

This position uniquely blends Solutions Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, and Architecture, demanding hands-on proficiency in cloud technologies and services across AWS, Azure, infrastructure and platform automation, as well as enterprise-scale software delivery. You will work closely with Product Engineering, Architecture, Security, Site Reliability Engineering teams, and Senior Management to drive innovation and operational efficiency throughout our ecosystems.

We look forward to your contributions in shaping the future of our cloud and platform engineering landscape.

What you’ll be doing:

• Championing the design and implementation of our cutting-edge CI/CD pipeline and Internal Developer Platform, empowering our global engineering teams with unparalleled self-service capabilities
• Setting the standard for DevSecOps, DevOps, and Platform Engineering best practices, ensuring our infrastructure is robust, reusable, and scalable
• Innovating frameworks and integrations that streamline our software delivery pipelines, cloud provisioning, and security controls, driving efficiency and security
• Architecting, developing, and managing enterprise DevOps solutions, including GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and API catalogues, to enhance our operational excellence
• Directing the way in multi-cloud architecture, hybrid cloud networking, and governance frameworks, ensuring compliance and operational efficiency at every step
• Spearheading the design and integration of large-scale cloud and technology ecosystems, aligning them seamlessly with our business objectives within a regulated industry

Who we’re looking for:

• Handson expertise in CI/CD pipeline design and implementations using tools like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Flux ect
• DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE and Platform Engineering methodologies, principals and implementation practices
• Enterprise experience in Cloud, DevOps or Platform Engineering with role in large scale environments
• InDepth expertise in at least one cloud platform Azure, GCP or AWS ideally with experience in multi-cloud
• Strong hands on experience of Enterprise DevOps transformation, enabling developer productive through internal developer platforms
• High proficiency in at least one programme language such as Python, Java, or Type scripts
• Ability to meet deadlines and focus on delivery
• Ability to lead a global engineering team, enhance capability and quality, define excellence and achieve it

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
• Healthcare Plan (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 (permanent employees only)
• 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

At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive 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 care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.