Job Description
We are seeking an experienced Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to drive the continuous enhancement of our cloud platforms. This role focuses on optimisation, automation, and the strategic configuration of monitoring and control systems to ensure operational excellence. You will serve as a subject matter expert and provide technical leadership, offering best-practice guidance to our outsourced operations teams and helping shape the future of our cloud infrastructure.What you'll be doing:
1. Developing automation and tooling to streamline platform operations, enhance consistency, and reduce manual configuration
2. Leveraging Azure-native and third-party tools to enable comprehensive logging, monitoring, and reporting of platform and service health
3. Testing and implementing innovative approaches to platform management and automation, with a strong emphasis on Azure-native capabilities
4. Identifying and executing optimisation opportunities to improve utilisation, performance, reliability, and cost-efficiency
5. Applying policy-based configurations and guardrails to ensure consistent standards and strengthen security and compliance
6. Guiding outsourced teams by sharing expertise and ensuring adherence to internal standards and best practices
7. Ensuring effective cloud platform management to support the organisation’s strategic goals and uphold its consumer duty obligations
QualificationsWho we're looking for:
8. Direct hands-on technical knowledge of Microsoft Azure
9. Direct hands-on technical knowledge of Windows and/or Linux servers
10. Automation and Config as Code – Azure Automation, Ansible, PowerShell DSC
11. Logging, monitoring and observability tools, particularly Azure Monitor / Application Insights / Dynatrace / New Relic
12. Solid background in Windows and/or Linux server configuration and management
13. Experience with networking and web standards such as DNS, HTTP, proxies, load balancers, firewalls and WAFs
14. Good understanding of security and compliance frameworks
15. Good knowledge of ITIL best practices
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:
16. The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
17. Generous pension contribution
18. Life assurance
19. Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
20. At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday
21. Competitive family leave
22. 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)
23. There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
24. 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 InformationAt L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. If you join us, you’ll 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 doesn’t matter if you don’t 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. Share this article