Azure Cloud Engineer — Forward Deployed (Java/TypeScript)

LegalAndGeneral; City Of London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Share schemes

Life assurance

Healthcare plan

Holiday allowance

Electric car scheme

Discounts

Job summary

Legal & General is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Group Protection technology team in London. This role shapes and delivers modern cloud-based solutions across the full software delivery lifecycle.

You will collaborate with product owners and engineers to translate business needs into scalable, secure applications, mentor others, and drive continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

Qualifications

• Experience building and supporting RESTful microservices in Spring Boot, Node.js or similar frameworks.
• Solid understanding of cloud technologies, ideally Azure, alongside infrastructure and containerisation tools.
• Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices, preferably including GitHub Actions.
• Strong knowledge of software design principles, clean architecture and test-driven development.
• Experience working within Agile environments using approaches such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a collaborative, inclusive team culture.

Responsibilities

• Owning and evolving services and applications across their full lifecycle
• Collaborating with product owners and stakeholders to understand business needs and shape technical solutions
• Designing, developing and deploying scalable applications using modern engineering practices
• Driving quality through automated testing, observability and continuous improvement initiatives
• Leading technical problem-solving and supporting incident investigation and resolution
• Championing secure software development practices and promoting engineering best practice
• Mentoring and coaching engineers to strengthen team capability and technical excellence
• Contributing to architectural decisions, reducing technical debt and improving platform sustainability

Skills

RESTful microservices

Spring Boot

Node.js

Cloud technologies

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub Actions

DevOps practices

Agile (Scrum/Kanban)

Software design principles

Tools

GitHub Actions

Job description

Legal & General is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Group Protection technology team in London. This role shapes and delivers modern cloud-based solutions across the full software delivery lifecycle.

You will collaborate with product owners and engineers to translate business needs into scalable, secure applications, mentor others, and drive continuous improvement and engineering excellence.