Senior DevOps 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. 

Who we are 

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.

We’re a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys. 

We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long-term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways. 

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in designing, implementing, and enhancing scalable, secure, and high‑performance platforms. In this position, you will apply deep expertise in automation, cloud infrastructure, and system reliability to solve complex technical challenges, evolve our CI/CD pipelines, and architect solutions that accelerate deployment, strengthen resilience, and support operational excellence.

In addition to hands-on engineering responsibilities, you will mentor colleagues, contribute to technical strategy, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of robust, high‑quality software. Your leadership will help define DevOps best practices, improve system reliability, and enable the organisation to deliver products aligned with strategic business objectives.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading strategic automation and platform‑modernisation initiatives by assessing emerging technologies and implementing enhancements that improve performance, developer experience, and operational maturity across business‑critical applications
• Owning and driving complex release processes, coordinating cross‑team delivery to ensure predictable, high‑quality deployments while proactively identifying risks, bottlenecks, and systemic issues
• Architecting and continuously optimising CI/CD pipelines, introducing best‑practice tooling, automation standards, and governance to enhance delivery speed, stability, and consistency
• Championing observability and operational excellence by designing and managing advanced monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks that enable proactive issue identification and rapid incident response
• Embedding security, compliance, and resilience into infrastructure and delivery pipelines, ensuring alignment with internal standards, regulatory obligations, and secure‑by‑design principles
• Providing technical leadership during production incidents, guiding cross‑team response efforts, driving root‑cause analysis, and delivering long‑term remediation to strengthen system reliability
• Mentoring and coaching engineers across DevOps and development functions, promoting best practices, elevating technical capability, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborating closely with cross‑functional teams, including development, QA, architecture, security, and product, to align technical solutions with business objectives and ensure seamless delivery within sprint and release cycles

Who we're looking for:

• Demonstrable experience in DevOps engineering, supported by a technology-focused degree or equivalent hands-on expertise
• Proficiency in scripting/programming (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby, or Rust) and strong understanding of core networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, VPNs, firewalls)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI
• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or Azure), Terraform (IaC), and containerisation/orchestration technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
• Familiarity with Agile tooling (JIRA, Confluence), version control (Git), secrets management solutions, and monitoring/logging platforms (e.g., Dynatrace, Grafana, Datadog)
• Proven ability to design, build, and maintain large-scale, automated, and highly reliable infrastructure and platform solutions
• Strong capability in diagnosing complex distributed system issues, conducting high-quality code/infrastructure reviews, and evaluating architectural options across technical, security, and business dimensions
• Demonstrated technical leadership, including alignment to strategic direction, positive challenge to priorities, and mentoring/coaching engineering team members

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.