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Job Description

At Aberdeen, our ambition is to be the UK’s leading Wealth & Investments group.

Strengthening talent and culture is one of our strategic priorities. We strive to make Aberdeen a great place to work so that we can attract and retain the industry’s best talent.

Our people put our stakeholders at the heart of everything they do by helping us to make a positive difference to the lives of our clients, customers, colleagues, shareholders, and society.

We are focused on growing our direct and advised wealth platforms and repositioning our specialist asset management business to meet client demand. We are committed to providing excellent client service, supported by leading technology and talent.

Aberdeen comprises three businesses, interactive investor (ii), Investments, and Adviser, each of which focuses on meeting and adapting to our clients’ evolving needs:

• interactive investor, the UK’s second largest direct-to-consumer investment platform, enables individuals in the UK to plan, save, and invest in the way that works for them.

• Our Adviser business provides financial planning solutions and technology for UK financial advisers, enabling them to create value for their customers.

• Our Investments business is a specialist asset manager that focuses on areas where we have both strength and scale to capitalise on the key themes shaping the market, through either public markets or alternative asset classes.

About the Department

The Cloud Platform Engineering team is a key capability within the Cloud Capability function. The team works collaboratively across the Group COO, business stakeholders, CoEs & Product Owners connecting development, security and operations. It is responsible for creating and maintaining the platform that is driving our transition to cloud and adoption of modern development practices.

About the Role

As a Development Enablement Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing the productivity, efficiency, and satisfaction of software development teams. You will design, build, and maintain tools, systems, and processes that streamline the development lifecycle, from coding and testing to deployment and monitoring, while embedding security at every stage. Your objectives are to remove friction, reduce cognitive load, and empower developers to deliver high-quality and secure software faster and more reliably.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain internal tools, scripts, and platforms that improve developer workflows (e.g., CI/CD pipelines, code quality checks, security scanning).

• Identify pain points in the developer journey and implement solutions to improve onboarding, documentation, and day-to-day development tasks.

• Work closely with product engineers, DevOps, QA, and security teams to understand needs and advocate for best practices in software development.

• Define and track key metrics related to developer productivity and system performance. Use data to drive continuous improvement.

• Support infrastructure provisioning and management using tools like Terraform.

• Document systems and processes clearly. Lead internal workshops, brown bags, or tech talks to share knowledge and promote adoption of tools and practices.
  

About the Candidate

The ideal candidate will possess the following:

• Experience with observability tools (e.g., Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog).

• Background in DevOps, SRE, or platform engineeringwith a security first mindset.

• Strong programming skills in languages such as .Net, JavaScript, Python or similar.

• Experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, ADO Pipelines).

• Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).

• Understanding of Azure.

• Excellent problem-solving and communication skills.

• Passion for improving developer workflows and internal tooling.
  

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer. If you have a disability and would like to apply to one of our UK roles under the Disability Confident Scheme, please notify us by completing the relevant section in our candidate questionnaire. One of our team will reach out to support you through your application process.

Our benefits

There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.

When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefitshere.

Our business

Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we dohere.

An inclusive way of working

Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.

At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.

An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.

We’re committed to providing an inclusive workplace where all forms of difference are valued and which is free from any form of unfair or unlawful treatment. We define diversity in its broadest sense – this includes but is not limited to our diversity of educational and professional backgrounds, experience, cognitive and neurodiversity, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, religion or belief and ethnicity and geographical provenance. We support a culture that values meritocracy, fairness and transparency and welcomes enquiries from everyone. If you need assistance or an adjustment due to a disability please let us know as part of your application and we will assist.