Senior Cloud Engineer | Linux
On site
Hove, United Kingdom
Full Time
14-03-2025
Job Specifications
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.
Job Description
We are seeking a talented Technical Cloud Engineer to join our innovative team. In this crucial role, you will design, build, and configure Azure projects, including builds, migrations, and modernizations, with a strong focus on Linux OS and workload deployment and management. You will have the opportunity to work hands-on while also providing leadership and best-practice guidance to our outsourced infrastructure teams. Join us and play a key role in driving our cloud initiatives to success, making a significant impact on our cutting-edge projects.
What you'll be doing:
Using your experience of cloud architecture and knowledge of the benefits and drawbacks of different methodologies to provide design leadership including development of 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 proving patterns using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) & Configuration-as-Code (CaC) approaches such as Terraform and Ansible for implementation by outsource (onshore/offshore) teams to allow fail-fast exploration of best practice approaches
Taking a lead engineering role on selected projects, developing IaC and CaC to ensure automated, repeatable deployments
Enabling the achievement of operational resilience needs through resilient architecture, and the achievement of security best practices to ensure solutions are secure by design and secure in practice
Ensuring that the cloud services are built with sufficient skill and diligence to support the business’s goals in fulfilling its consumer duty
Qualifications
Who we're looking for:
Direct hands-on technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure
Automation and Config as Code – Azure Automation, Ansible, PowerShell DSC
Policy-driven configuration and guardrails
Solid background in Linux server configuration and management
Experience with networking firewalls and WAFs
Experience with multiple cloud hosting models including IaaS, PaaS and CaaS
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 and/or Linux certifications desirable
Ability to interact and lead onshore and offshore resources
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
Additional Information
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.
About the Company
Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. Our three divisions enable us to carefully invest capital over the long term in a responsible way that delivers returns to shareholders while doing good. Along with growing our pension risk transfer business, our strategy focuses on asset management as the cornerstone of our business, including by opening up private markets to more of our clients. Meanwhile, our retail business is focused on building lifelong relationships with customers as... Know more
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