Technical Specialist

Royal London; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization in the UK seeks a Cloud DevOps Technical Specialist to shape the future of technology initiatives. This role involves leveraging expertise in Kubernetes and Terraform to develop innovative solutions in a hybrid environment. Candidates should be experienced in CI/CD pipeline implementation and infrastructure management. The successful individual will significantly impact application development while enjoying a supportive and inclusive work culture with attractive benefits.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Expert in Kubernetes cluster design and management.
• Proficient in Terraform for automating cloud infrastructure.
• Experienced in CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps.
• Skilled in managing environments using Terraform Workspaces.
• Experienced in designing scalable workload solutions.
• Familiar with event streaming technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead the engineering team to deliver innovative digital solutions.
• Manage cloud infrastructure utilizing Kubernetes and Terraform.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize performance.
• Design and maintain cloud systems for product offerings.
• Train and mentor junior team members.

Skills

Kubernetes expertise

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform

CI/CD Pipeline Implementation

Environment Management

Workload Design and Management

Event Streaming with Kafka

Cross-functional Collaboration

Microservices support

Database management (SQL/NoSQL)

Leadership and mentoring

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Kafka

Postgres

Oracle

MongoDB

Job description

Job Title: Technical Specialist

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 19th December 2025

We have a unique opportunity to offer roles within the Chief Operating Office that will help shape the future of Royal London, across several disciplines.

Our Chief Operating Office (COO) works across Royal London to help deliver the Group's strategic ambitions. We work in partnership to deliver operational excellence, drive innovation, enhance customer experience, and protect our business from threats impacting our industry.

About the Opportunity

• Modernising our technology is fundamental to realising our ambitions and achieving sustained competitive advantage. It will allow us to develop an innovative and leading proposition, achieve speed to market and ongoing pace of change, and maintain a competitive cost-to-develop and cost-to-serve.
• We are forming new engineering capability in our Alderley Park office to deliver and maintain a new technology solution which will support our financial product offering.
• We are seeking an expertly skilled and experienced Cloud DevOps Technical Specialist to play a lead role in building amazing digital solutions for our customers and business users. The team will be focussed on delivering a new state-of-the-art investments platform, an undertaking that is expected to take several years.

About you

• Expert in Kubernetes cluster design, deployment, and management, specifically within Cloud environments such as Azure, AWS or GCP.
• Expert in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Development: Design, implement, and manage Terraform scripts to automate cloud infrastructure on Azure, ensuring efficient and secure resource provisioning.
• Expert in CI/CD Pipeline Implementation: Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, integrating Terraform to automate infrastructure deployments with validation and security checks.
• Experienced in Environment Management: Manage multiple environments using Terraform Workspaces, ensuring best practices for state file management, versioning, and locking mechanisms.
• Experienced in Workload Design and Management: Design and manage highly scalable and resilient workload solutions including cloud native serverless and containerised workloads to Kubernetes.
• Experienced in Event Streaming: Design and maintain business critical event streaming capability with Kafka or Confluent.
• Experienced in Collaboration and Optimization: Work with cross-functional teams to define infrastructure requirements, implement monitoring and performance optimization, and ensure security and compliance using Azure tools.
• Experienced in supporting microservice development and deployment.
• Experienced in the deployment and management of SQL and NoSQL databases such as Postgres, Oracle, MongoDB.
• Thrives under little to no supervision.
• An experienced DevOps lead and mentor.
• Continuously developing new skills, driving best practice, and emerging technology adoption.

The successful candidate will have a real impact into how Royal London develop our applications and will provide a blend of both solid leadership experience and technical expertise.

You will be given the opportunity to grow your career within a team focussed on promoting internal career progression. This role is focussed on our exciting new Pensions Application stack and contributes to our purpose of strengthening the mutual choice for our customers, by providing the best technology solutions to our customers.

About Royal London

We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleaguesis that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.