Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Legal & General; Hove; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services company in Hove is seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to enhance their cloud platforms. The role focuses on automation, optimisation, and providing technical leadership to outsourced teams. Ideal candidates have strong Azure skills and experience in server management. This position offers competitive benefits including a performance bonus, healthcare plan, and flexible working options.

Benefits

Performance-related bonus plan

Generous pension contribution

Healthcare plan

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Employee discounts

Electric car scheme

Qualifications

• Direct hands-on technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Automation and Config as Code – Azure Automation, Ansible, PowerShell DSC.
• Good understanding of security and compliance frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Developing automation and tooling to streamline platform operations.
• Leveraging Azure-native tools for logging, monitoring, and reporting.
• Guiding outsourced teams and ensuring adherence to best practices.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Windows Server

Linux Server

Automation and Config as Code

Azure Monitor

Application Insights

Networking Standards

ITIL best practices

Tools

Azure Automation

Ansible

PowerShell DSC

Dynatrace

New Relic

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to drive the continuous enhancement of our cloud platforms. This role focuses on optimisation, automation, and strategic configuration of monitoring and control systems to ensure operational excellence. You will serve as a subject matter expert and provide technical leadership, offering best-practice guidance to our outsourced operations teams and helping shape the future of our cloud infrastructure.

What you'll be doing:

1. Developing automation and tooling to streamline platform operations, enhance consistency, and reduce manual configuration.
2. Leveraging Azure-native and third-party tools to enable comprehensive logging, monitoring, and reporting of platform and service health.
3. Testing and implementing innovative approaches to platform management and automation, with a strong emphasis on Azure-native capabilities.
4. Identifying and executing optimisation opportunities to improve utilisation, performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency.
5. Applying policy-based configurations and guardrails to ensure consistent standards and strengthen security and compliance.
6. Guiding outsourced teams by sharing expertise and ensuring adherence to internal standards and best practices.
7. Ensuring effective cloud platform management to support the organisation’s strategic goals and uphold its consumer duty obligations.

Qualifications - Who we're looking for:

1. Direct hands-on technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure.
2. Direct hands-on technical knowledge of Windows and/or Linux servers.
3. Experience with Automation and Config as Code – Azure Automation, Ansible, PowerShell DSC.
4. Experience with logging, monitoring, and observability tools, particularly Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Dynatrace, or New Relic.
5. Solid background in Windows and/or Linux server configuration and management.
6. Knowledge of networking and web standards such as DNS, HTTP, proxies, load balancers, firewalls, and WAFs.
7. Good understanding of security and compliance frameworks.
8. Knowledge of ITIL best practices.

Benefits:

• Participation in our annual performance-related bonus plan and share schemes.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• Healthcare plan (for permanent employees).
• At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays; 26 days after 2 years’ service. Holiday buy/sell options available.
• Competitive family leave.
• Electric car scheme through salary sacrifice (for permanent employees).
• Employee discounts on products and at various stores.
• Modern, collaborative office spaces designed to support wellbeing.

Additional Information:

At L&G, we value an inclusive culture and flexible working options. We believe in outcomes over attendance and encourage applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Join us to be part of a community that cares about your future and wellbeing.