Senior DevOps Engineer

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevOps Engineer to play a key role in designing implementing and enhancing scalable secure and highperformance this position you will apply deep expertise in automation cloud infrastructure and system reliability to solve complex technical challenges evolve our CI/CD pipelines and architect solutions that accelerate deployment strengthen resilience and support operational excellence.

In addition to hands-on engineering responsibilities you will mentor colleagues contribute to technical strategy and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of robust highquality software. Your leadership will help define DevOps best practices improve system reliability and enable the organisation to deliver products aligned with strategic business objectives.

What youll be doing:

• Leading strategic automation and platformmodernisation initiatives by assessing emerging technologies and implementing enhancements that improve performance developer experience and operational maturity across businesscritical applications
• Owning and driving complex release processes coordinating crossteam delivery to ensure predictable highquality deployments while proactively identifying risks bottlenecks and systemic issues
• Architecting and continuously optimising CI/CD pipelines introducing bestpractice tooling automation standards and governance to enhance delivery speed stability and consistency
• Championing observability and operational excellence by designing and managing advanced monitoring logging and alerting frameworks that enable proactive issue identification and rapid incident response
• Embedding security compliance and resilience into infrastructure and delivery pipelines ensuring alignment with internal standards regulatory obligations and securebydesign principles
• Providing technical leadership during production incidents guiding crossteam response efforts driving rootcause analysis and delivering longterm remediation to strengthen system reliability
• Mentoring and coaching engineers across DevOps and development functions promoting best practices elevating technical capability and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborating closely with crossfunctional teams including development QA architecture security and product to align technical solutions with business objectives and ensure seamless delivery within sprint and release cycles

Qualifications :

Who were looking for:

• Demonstrable experience in DevOps engineering supported by a technology-focused degree or equivalent hands-on expertise
• Proficiency in scripting/programming (e.g. Python Go Ruby or Rust) and strong understanding of core networking concepts (TCP/IP DNS HTTP/S VPNs firewalls)
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling such as GitHub Actions Azure DevOps Jenkins or GitLab CI
• Practical knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS or Azure) Terraform (IaC) and containerisation/orchestration technologies including Docker Kubernetes and Helm
• Familiarity with Agile tooling (JIRA Confluence) version control (Git) secrets management solutions and monitoring/logging platforms (e.g. Dynatrace Grafana Datadog)
• Proven ability to design build and maintain large-scale automated and highly reliable infrastructure and platform solutions
• Strong capability in diagnosing complex distributed system issues conducting high-quality code/infrastructure reviews and evaluating architectural options across technical security and business dimensions
• Demonstrated technical leadership including alignment to strategic direction positive challenge to priorities and mentoring/coaching engineering team members

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
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays 26 days after 2 years service. Theres 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 (permanent employees only)
• 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 Information :

At L&G we believe its possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us youll be part of a welcoming inclusive 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 care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesnt matter if you dont meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths potential and connection to our purpose. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time