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VN-9358
Permanent
1 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA
Competitive + Benefits + Bonus
28 October 2018
A DevOps engineer is required to help an in-house technology team optimise their route to production; providing the automation skills to move towards a Continuous Delivery model and help define and maintain its end-to-end technical stack.
The development team is delivering a number of in-house projects to support the UK’s biggest asset management business. The core technologies used by the team are Java, .NET Core and Python, increasingly deployed within AWS.
- Management of Continuous Integration environments
- Managing tools such as Nexus, Jenkins and SonarQube
- Handling upgrades and plugins
- Controlling permissions
- Optimisation of builds
- Managing Application & Development Environments
Across a mixture of physical and cloud based environments
- Enabling a move towards Continuous Delivery
- Working with Infrastructure and Development teams
- Promoting and spreading automation
- Converging teams on a streamlined set of tools & processes
- Facilitate Technical Roadmaps
- Be involved in upgrade and maintenance work across systems
- Resolve technical blockers and liaise with Infrastructure teams
Academic Qualifications:
- Degree or equivalent experience are preferred as minimum.
Business Knowledge/Professional Qualifications:
- Financial knowledge overall is desired but not a must.
Primary Skills:
- Current and in-depth knowledge of Amazon’s services including EC2, EBS, ELB and CloudFormation
- Demonstrate a current knowledge of latest DevOps tooling and practices
- Experience of containerisation, ideally using Docker
- Experience of automated software configuration, ideally using Ansible, Puppet or Chef
- Experience of continuous integration tooling, ideally using Jenkins, Maven, Nexus & SonarQube
- Strong scripting skills i.e. Bash, Python etc.
- Experience of automated testing orchestration, using tools such as BDD (Cucumber), SoapUI and Fitnesse
- Experience of deploying to a public cloud, ideally using AWS
- RHEL Administration experience
- An understanding of Java / JVM-based applications
Desirable Skills:
- Experience of building infrastructure within the AWS cloud
- Knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes and Openshift
- Experience using the following products: Red Hat Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) and JBoss Data Grid
- Experience in various software development methodologies (Agile, Iterative and waterfall)
- Virtual Machine Automation Tooling (Vagrant, VirtualBox)
- Knowledge of multiple cloud providers (Google Cloud Compute, Azure and AWS)
- Appreciation for distributed / complex event processing
- Prior experience of (preferable Java-based) development
- Experience of configuring and using platform monitoring tools
- Experience with Apache Kafka
Whatever your role, we reward ability, performance and attitude with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Our employees have a wide range of benefits including a generous pension scheme, life assurance, 22 days’ (with potential to rise to 26 days) holiday, discretionary performance related bonuses, paid overtime, a variety of share schemes, discounts at both a huge range of high street stores and our own great products, your hard work will be rewarded when you join us.
About L&G
Legal & General Investment Management is one of Europe’s largest asset managers and a major global investor, with total assets of GBP 957 / EUR 1,090 / CHF 1,191 billion*. We work with a wide range of global clients, including pension schemes, sovereign wealth funds, fund distributors and retail investors
Throughout the past 40 years we have built our business through understanding what matters most to our clients and transforming this insight into valuable, accessible investment products and solutions. We provide investment expertise across the full spectrum of asset classes including fixed income, equities, commercial property and cash. Our capabilities range from index-tracking and active strategies to liquidity management and liability-based risk management solutions.
*as at 30 June 2017, including derivative positions and advisory assets. These figures include assets managed by LGIMA, an SEC Registered Investment Advisor.
About the business area
LGIM manages fixed income, equity, multi-asset, liability-driven investment, property and alternative solutions on behalf of its clients. Located across the globe, our clients include institutional pension funds, financial institutions, local authorities and sovereign wealth funds. In order to meet the complex and evolving investment needs of our clients, we focus on remaining at the forefront of investment product innovation and maintaining our reputation as experts across all asset classes.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.
