DevOps Engineer

Legal And General Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial services group is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer to advance cloud infrastructure strategy. The role requires expertise in AWS, automation, and security practices. You will design and maintain AWS infrastructure and manage CI/CD pipelines in a highly collaborative environment. Join to contribute to meaningful solutions that enhance customer financial futures.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus

Generous pension contribution

Healthcare plan

25+ days holiday

Electric car scheme

Workplace discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in designing AWS infrastructure.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Bash.
• Strong experience with containerization technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain AWS infrastructure using IaC.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines to support agile delivery.
• Collaborate with security teams for compliance.

Skills

AWS infrastructure management

Python scripting

Docker proficiency

CI/CD tools familiarity

Linux environments

Analytical skills

Tools

Terraform

GitHub

CloudWatch

Job description

Company Description

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 Retail supports the savings, protection and retirement needs of around 14 million people, through our portfolio of retail and workplace businesses.

Our Retail division helps people enjoy a more colourful retirement, both directly and through their employers, including Lifetime Mortgages, Retirement Interest Only Mortgages and financial advice on our range of lending products.

We are the UK’s number one individual life insurer, and also provide Group Protection products for employers – all helping people to plan for the unexpected. We support home buying through our Mortgage Club – the UK’s largest – and our award-winning Surveying Services team. And our fintech team finds and supports socially useful start-ups and scale-ups working in the workplace, home, insurance and wealth areas.

Joining us means helping create brighter financial futures for all our customers.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated DevOps Engineer to join our Group Data function. This role is instrumental in advancing our cloud infrastructure strategy, with a focus on automation, scalability, and security. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with solution architects and cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless deployment and operation of technology solutions within our AWS environment.

This is an excellent opportunity for a DevOps professional who thrives in a dynamic, agile environment and is committed to delivering high-quality, enterprise-grade solutions aligned with strategic business objectives.

What you'll be doing

• Designing, implementing, and maintaining robust AWS infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles
• Developing and managing Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines to support agile software delivery
• Collaborating with architecture and security teams to ensure compliance with governance frameworks and best practices
• Deploying and managing containerised applications using Docker and ECS, leveraging Terraform for infrastructure provisioning
• Monitoring system performance and reliability using tools such as Datadog, CloudWatch, and the ELK stack
• Contributing to solution design, risk assessment, and project planning activities
• Promoting continuous improvement and innovation across DevOps practices and tooling
• Ensuring all development activities adhere to change governance and software development lifecycle (SDLC) standards

Qualifications

Who we're looking for

• Proven experience in designing and managing AWS-based infrastructure
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python and Bash
• Strong experience with Docker, ECS, and Terraform
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and version control using GitHub
• Experience with Windows Server, PowerShell, and Linux environments
• Exposure to data streaming technologies (e.g., Kafka, Qlik Replicate) is advantageous
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in agile, collaborative environments

Benefits

• 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

Additional Information

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.