Senior DevOps Engineer - eFinancialCareers : Job Details

Company DescriptionLife can sometimes be unpredictable, and it pays to plan ahead. Our aim atLegal & General Retailis to help our customers plan for the unexpected, achieve financial security for their tomorrow, and protect everything that's important to them. To better understand our customers and meet their needs, we've brought our protection, retirement income, savings, lending, and advice, fintech and mortgage businesses under one umbrella. Created at the start of 2022 through the merging of our long-standing and trusted retail retirement and insurance businesses, we're a fast-growing division with big, customer-centred ambitions. Job DescriptionWe're recruiting for an experienced DevOps Engineer who will use their software engineering skills and experience to provide and support capabilities focused on the supportability the developer experience for teams working across Mainframe, Azure and AWS platforms. The role ensures both engineering and operationally focused teams work seamlessly as one combined end-to-end engineering team. The role requires an ability to work with a diverse range of internal and external technical and engineering teams, to ensure a highly reliable, automated engineering & operational capability exists What you'll be doing:

• Building clean, maintainable features and resolve end-to-end issues with an understanding of different possible approaches, to ensure that we are delivering great outcomes to our customers as effectively as we can. Ensure that the solutions developed and deployed are fit for purpose, provide appropriate business value, adhere to quality standards and align to standard engineering practices.
• Understanding and contributing to the strategy for the management of technical debt within the team to ensure that Legal & General's systems are secure, resilient and reliable.
• Analysing and defining test approaches and strategies within your team so that the customer experience is of the highest quality - with an emphasis security, usability and accessibility.
• Conducting and participating in code reviews with an emphasis on both functional and non-functional requirements, considering, performance, resiliency, maintainability and security, to ensure that we build consistently high-quality software for our customers.
• Resolving issues, defects and queries raised at any phase of development or production in a timely and professional manner.
• Providing sizing on technical development tasks. Report progress regularly, escalating matters as appropriate. An active member of the agile team, contributing to the typical agile ceremonies.
• Enthusiastically promoting inspection and adaptation to improve team effectiveness & happiness, supporting changes to enhance processes and culture, to ensure that the team stays happy, productive, efficient.
• Undertaking continuous research on relevant application technologies and identifying and implementing opportunities to incorporate those into the application as appropriate. Share your research and learning in developer forums.

QualificationsWho we're looking for:

• Mainframe SCM tools like, Broadcom Endevor/Changeman/BMC-ISPW
• JavaScript, JCL, REXX
• Scrum ways of working
• Git / Git Flow, GitHub Actions
• Terraform or CloudFormation
• Experience in DevOps automation and integration
• Experience in Zos and Linux operating system
• Experience in Mainframe configuration and infrastructure
• Strong infrastrtcure security experience
• Excellent knowledge of CI/CD and associated release strategies is essential.
• Experience 2 or more of the following:
  • Python experience
  • Jenkins experience
  • Knowledge on IBM Z Development and Test Environment ( ZD&T).
  • Azure Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
• Experience of writing well-optimised and maintainable software features
• Experience of analysing, debugging and solving highly complex problems

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Private medical insurance (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice
• There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional InformationLegal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain's Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future. We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers' money in things that make life better for everyone. If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel. We strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs. If you're open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you. "videos":{"title":"Videos To Watch","urls":["https://youtu.be/8ZYGBwImH08","https://YwHNjdPbbkk"]}}},