Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Hargreaves Lansdown plc; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment platform in the UK is seeking a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer to enhance their Azure Cloud capabilities. You'll join a committed team, driving technology transformation while ensuring robust service delivery and security compliance. The role offers opportunities for career development and hybrid working, reflecting a commitment to employee growth and well-being.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible working options

Enhanced parental leave

Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution

Private medical insurance

Health care cash plans

Wellness coaching sessions

Inhouse barista and deli

Two paid volunteering days

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure Networking, Virtual Machines, and Backup.
• Strong CI/CD pipeline experience.
• Ability to analyze system performance for cost-saving.

Responsibilities

• Delivering services within a Cloud Infrastructure team.
• Managing relationships with 3rd party vendors.
• Implementing security controls and compliance.

Skills

Cloud technology

DevOps practices

Communication

Organizational skills

Education

Microsoft AZ-104

Microsoft AZ-305

ITIL 4 Foundation

Tools

Terraform

Azure Pipelines

Job description

Excited to grow your career?

Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We'd love to hear from you!

About the role

As Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) continues it digital journey, we are scaling up our Engineering capabilities within our Azure Cloud Platform team. We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer with a proven track record in delivering and maintaining cloud solutions within an enterprise environment. You will be joining a highly skilled and committed technology team and will play a significant role in our technology transformation journey, working on our Azure Cloud platform. We offer a commitment to your career development through training, mentoring and internal opportunities.

What you'll be doing

• Delivering a best-in-class service within a high performing Cloud Infrastructure team
• Providing maintenance and deployment services across our Azure Cloud Platform
• Leading by example to create a culture of continuous service improvements
• Working with the Azure Technical Lead to help to develop our service strategy
• Responsible for recording, managing, and approving changes in line with ITIL best practice
• Creating, updating and approving documentation and knowledge items
• Managing the relationship with 3rd party vendors to ensure the successful procurement and installation of services
• Implementing and maintaining robust security controls
• Protecting sensitive data and ensuring compliance with data governance standards
• Leading Major Incident events, ensuring RCA is carried out for Incidents and Problems

About you

• Demonstrable experience working with Cloud technology including; Azure Networking, Azure Virtual Machines and Scale Sets, Azure storage, Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery (or equivalent cloud platform)
• Strong experience with DevOps practices, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, and related tools
• Experience in automating infrastructure deployments in the Cloud with Terraform and Azure Pipelines
• Understanding of Microsoft's Cloud Adoption Framework, Azure Landing Zones and Well Architected Framework
• Financial efficiency: Analysing system performance and providing reports to identify cost-saving opportunities
• Highly organized with the ability to prioritize workload
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Qualified to Microsoft AZ-104 minimum (or equivalent)
• A willingness to provide occasional out of hours services as required

Desirable:

• Defining business operational requirements and implementing service designs
• Serverless architecture experience
• Experience working in Financial Services
• Qualified to Microsoft AZ-305 (or equivalent)
• Qualified to ITIL 4 Foundation

Interview process

There is a two-stage interview process for this role. The first stage will incorporate competency-based questions including an assessment of your technical knowledge and transferable skills. For candidates who progress, the second stage will be held face-to-face at our Bristol office, and there will be a presentation to prepare and deliver.

Salary

Circa £55,000 p.a. depending on experience

Working Schedule

This role is a permanent role, Monday - Friday 37.5 hours a week. We offer hybrid working whereby you'll be required in the office one day per week as a minimum.

Why us?

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and outpatient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• Two paid volunteering days per year

* dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.