Your role at a glance
We’re looking for a Cloud Engineering Manager (AWS) to join us in either Cardiff, Hove or London!
You’ll play a key role in providing hands-on infrastructure/development skills as well as leading and supporting a team of AWS Cloud Engineers. You’ll also collaborate closely with the product and architecture teams to enable the implementation of new and existing platforms.
If you are looking for the next step in your career and the chance to lead a team of engineers, or perhaps interested in joining a highly supportive team where you’ll have access to a myriad of training resources, then this could be the ideal opportunity for you!
We will consider applications from all over the UK however there may be an expectation to travel into one of our main offices in Cardiff, London or Hove. We are also open to flexible working arrangements - job share etc.
What you'll be doing
- Delivering large, clean, maintainable features, resolving complex end-to-end issues and defining new approaches where applicable; so as to deliver valuable features to our customers
- Creating automated test approaches and strategies to maintain an appropriate quality level within your team, and thus delivering solutions which work well for all of our customers
- Taking ownership over the security assessment of the team’s solutions, and ensuring that best practice security techniques are followed, so that data is kept as safe as possible
- Using metrics to make data-driven decisions to continuously improve the team's approaches to deployment, monitoring and operations, so that we can easily release and run performant and resilient systems in production
- Taking ownership over the team’s continuous improvement, by actively improving the team's events, processes and culture, to ensure that your team stays productive and effective
- Leading, motivating and developing mid-level developers to broaden their responsibilities, improve their skills and remove their own blockers, by sharing experiences, successes and failures
What we're looking for
- Strong technical skills in building and maintaining AWS Cloud Infrastructure
- Technical skills in DevOps and CI/CD
- Terraform experience
- A good understanding of ITIL processes
- Perhaps you’re currently a Senior Cloud Engineer with coaching/mentoring experience and you’re looking for a step up into your next role?
Benefits
When you commit to Legal & General, we’ll commit to you too. That means we’ll recognise and reward your hard work, your performance and your contribution.
If you join us, you’ll get access to some great benefits, including private medical insurance, 27 days holiday (excluding bank holidays), a generous pension scheme, life assurance, and Income Protection. You can participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice. We’re also proud to offer competitive family leave.
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our annual, performance-related bonus plan and valuable share schemes. And then there are the many discounts we offer that you can take advantage of – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online offerings.
About L&G
The brand with the brolly is choosing today to change tomorrow.
Since 1836, we’ve grown to become one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers and insurance brands.
We’re all here to improve the lives of our customers, build a better society for the long term, and create value for our shareholders - helping to shape a better future for society and the planet.
We need people who share our ambitions, agility and entrepreneurial spirit to help us do it.
At L&G, you’ll find a balance that helps you be your best. Empowered by hybrid working, we’re supported by technology and workplaces that enable us to work effectively wherever we are. We come together in offices to collaborate and connect, and use time at home for individual, focused activities. And, when we achieve great things, we celebrate our success and reward strong performance.
Today, there’s over 10,000 of us, working towards our mission, with plenty of opportunities to grow your career as we grow L&G. Will you join us?
About the business area
Helping over ten million people around the world manage their savings, retirement plans and life insurance requires a lot of people behind-the-scenes. It’s up to us in L&G Group functions – which includes our tech and digital teams, Group Finance, HR, Risk and Corporate Comms to provide the essential support services that all areas of the business need, here in the UK and overseas. Simply put, we enable everyone at Legal & General to do what they do best. That means we’re helping to improve our customers’ lives, and contributing to the success of the business every day.
Our commitments to you
Great minds don’t have to think alike, so we welcome voices from all backgrounds. Bringing together people with different life experiences helps us build empathy with our customers and drive innovation.
We don’t just talk about it, we actively promote diversity and equitable opportunities for all. That means our employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability or protected veteran status. In fact, we embrace every dimension of diversity to reflect the customers and communities we serve.
We think it’s important to create an inclusive environment where we can all belong, contribute and drive progress, where you can develop and grow, and be empowered. We want you to use your voice to help us build a better tomorrow.
We all work differently, and have different needs, which is why. we’re always open to discussing flexible working arrangements. Likewise, we’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs during our recruiting process.
So whoever you are, wherever you are, whatever your story, we'd love to hear from you.
How to find out more
If this opportunity excites you but you’re not sure you meet all the requirements, or you’d like to know a bit more, please contact James Shields at james.shields@landg.com (LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesshields1//).
If you’d like to be considered for this role, please submit your application through our careers website as we’re not accepting email applications.