Senior AWS & Java Engineer | Cloud & Security

Legal & General; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus plan and share schemes

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan (permanent employees)

At least 25 days holiday (+buy/sell)

Job summary

Legal & General is seeking a Senior Engineer to own major services and drive engineering excellence across enterprise applications. You’ll lead technical initiatives, ensure quality, security, and reliability, and mentor engineers in a collaborative, high-velocity environment.

You’ll work with Java/JVM, cloud-native AWS, serverless and containerised architectures, shaping scalable solutions while aligning with business objectives and risk controls.

Qualifications

• Experience developing and supporting enterprise Java/JVM applications.
• Strong cloud-native experience with AWS, serverless and containerised architectures.
• Solid understanding of software testing practices, including automated testing and TDD.
• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines and modern delivery in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Own services and major technical components, ensuring high standards of quality, security, performance and reliability.
• Define and evolve testing strategies, embedding automation and fast feedback loops across engineering teams.
• Drive improvements in observability through monitoring, metrics, logging and alerting capabilities.
• Use engineering and operational metrics to identify opportunities for improved delivery, reliability and quality outcomes.
• Champion secure engineering practices and partner with security specialists to mitigate risk effectively.
• Lead investigation and resolution of complex technical incidents, conducting root cause analysis and implementing lasting solutions.
• Mentor and coach engineers to strengthen capability across design, testing, security and operational excellence.
• Influence architecture, engineering standards and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Java/JVM

AWS

CI/CD

TDD

Microservices

Security

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Git

CI/CD Pipelines

Job description

Legal & General is seeking a Senior Engineer to own major services and drive engineering excellence across enterprise applications. You’ll lead technical initiatives, ensure quality, security, and reliability, and mentor engineers in a collaborative, high-velocity environment.

You’ll work with Java/JVM, cloud-native AWS, serverless and containerised architectures, shaping scalable solutions while aligning with business objectives and risk controls.