Senior Engineer

LGT Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP is seeking a senior platform and infrastructure engineer to design, build and operate a secure Azure environment. You will lead automation, guardrails, and platform services, working with GitLab, Kubernetes, Terraform and Helm to drive reliable, scalable cloud solutions.

You will partner with architects and other engineers to deliver cloud adoption, environment design, and operational readiness, while embedding security, compliance and observability throughout.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior platform, infrastructure or cloud engineering role, preferably in financial services or another regulated environment.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building and operating Microsoft Azure environments, including compute, networking and storage services, with identity, access management and cloud resilience.
• Demonstrable experience designing and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or comparable tooling.
• Strong practical experience with containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Proven experience using Terraform to provision and manage cloud/on-prem infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Act as a senior, hands-on engineer within Platform & Infrastructure, providing technical leadership and roadmap delivery.
• Design, build and operate a secure, resilient Azure infrastructure estate with CI/CD, IaC, containers and observability.
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, guardrails and reusable platform services.
• Lead delivery automation using GitLab, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and DevOps practices.
• Own complex technical designs and operational issues, ensuring secure, cost-effective solutions.
• Partner with architects and teams to deliver cloud adoption and modernization initiatives.
• Embed security, compliance, monitoring and performance considerations in platform delivery.
• Contribute to technical reviews, documentation and team capability development.

Skills

Senior platform engineer

Cloud architecture

Agile delivery

Communication skills

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitLab

Helm

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

PowerShell

Python

Job description

LGT Wealth Management UK LLP is a UK-based partnership, wholly owned by the private banking group LGT, which is in turn owned by the Princely Family of Liechtenstein. When we set up LGT Wealth Management in 2008, our aim was to offer a fresh approach to wealth management. Alongside the LLP we also have two other entities which focus on US and Jersey based clients. Our head office is based in London however we have a presence in Edinburgh, Jersey, Leeds, Birmingham and Bristol. The plan was simple: put our clients first by providing a transparent service, designed around what is right for each of them. By drawing together in-depth knowledge and experience from across the industry, we provide a flexible, bespoke service adapted to each of our clients’ needs.
Our mission is to create long-term value for all stakeholders. Our culture encourages individuals to generate, develop and implement ideas which will strengthen our business. Belonging, respect, integrity, conviction and entrepreneurship are our core values. As our brand recognition grows, we are fast becoming an employer of choice in our sector. We have over £29 billion in funds under management and circa 700 staff.

• Act as a senior, hands-on engineer within the Platform & Infrastructure team, providing technical leadership and contributing to the successful delivery of the team’s cloud, platform and infrastructure roadmap.
• Design, build and operate a secure, resilient and scalable Azure infrastructure estate, including the associated CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, container and observability capabilities that support application delivery.
• Establish and evolve engineering standards, reference architectures, guardrails and reusable platform services, promoting consistency, automation, security, maintainability and operational excellence.
• Lead the design and implementation of robust software and infrastructure delivery automation using GitLab, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and appropriate DevOps and platform-engineering practices.
• Take ownership of complex technical designs, implementations and operational issues, managing risk and ensuring solutions are secure, supportable, cost-effective and transitioned effectively into operational service.
• Partner with architects, development teams and Group technology colleagues to deliver cloud adoption and application-modernisation initiatives, including environment design, migration planning, deployment automation and operational readiness.
• Embed security, resilience, compliance, monitoring and performance considerations throughout platform design and delivery, aligned with regulatory, Group and organisational requirements.
• Contribute to technical review, knowledge sharing and team capability development; maintain high-quality architecture documentation, standards, runbooks and operational procedures.
• Support effective platform service management, including incident and problem resolution, change planning, capacity and performance improvement, stakeholder communication, and evaluation of new technologies where they provide measurable value.

Your profile

• Proven experience in a senior platform, infrastructure or cloud engineering role, ideally within financial services or another highly regulated environment.
• Strong hands-on experience designing, building and operating Microsoft Azure environments, including core compute, networking and storage services, with a sound understanding of identity, access management, network security, governance and cloud resilience.
• Demonstrable experience designing and improving CI/CD pipelines using GitLab or comparable tooling, covering automated build, test, security assurance, deployment and release processes.
• Strong practical experience with containerisation and orchestration, including Docker, Kubernetes and Helm, alongside an understanding of GitOps principles such as declarative configuration and controlled environment promotion.
• Proven experience using Terraform to provision, configure and manage cloud and/or on-premise infrastructure, including the development of reusable, maintainable infrastructure-as-code patterns.
• Experience implementing or operating monitoring, logging and observability capabilities using tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent, with the ability to use operational data to improve reliability and performance.
• Strong scripting and automation capability using PowerShell, Bash and/or similar languages, together with practical proficiency in at least one general-purpose language such as Python or Go. Able to write, maintain and review code used for automation, integrations, tooling and application support, with confident use of YAML for build, deployment and operational automation.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, such as Scrum or Kanban, and with collaboration and delivery tooling including Jira and Confluence.
• Strong communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences
• Able to communicate complex technical concepts, decisions and risks clearly and appropriately to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong technical writing skills and attention to detail, with the ability to produce clear, accurate documentation including architecture diagrams, standards, runbooks, implementation guides and change records.
• Proactive in documenting solutions, engineering standards and lessons learned to strengthen shared knowledge and support consistent delivery across the team.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced and evolving environment, able to manage multiple priorities while maintaining sound judgement, quality and delivery focus.
• A collaborative and constructive team member who shares expertise, welcomes challenge and feedback, and contributes positively to technical decision-making.
• Well organised and dependable, with strong time-management skills and a consistent record of delivering against agreed commitments and deadlines.

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