DevOps lead

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VN-9359

Permanent

1 Coleman Street, London EC2R 5BG

Competitive + Benefits + Bonus

28 October 2018

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An Automation Lead is required to help an in-house technology team optimise their route to production; providing the leadership and vision to move towards a DevOps-driven Continuous Delivery model for a complex set of integrated business applications.

Deliver automated solutions to problems through the software development lifecycle, considering the following CI, deployment and operation aspects:

  • Build
  • Version Control & Artefact Storage
  • Testing (Unit > Integration > Smoke)
  • Application & Development environment provision & configuration
  • Scaling (horizontal & vertical)
  • Security concerns
  • Logging & Monitoring
  • High availability (Failover, Recovery, Backups)
  • Capacity management

Design & document automation solutions by through the use of documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code:

  • Specify detailed lists of work items for IT Operations and DevOps engineers to follow
  • Help define a “paved road” based on existing applications, platforms, languages and tools used in the automated pipeline
  • Help to create a process for adopting new technologies and automating their use in the pipeline
  • Work to constantly identify new opportunities to automate manual steps, working towards the goal of infrastructure as code
  • Identify lack of automation as Technical Debt and devise ways to pay it off
  • Quality Control delivery from IT Operations & internal DevOps Engineers
  • Quality Control delivery of software into the pipeline from Developers
  • Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art automation tooling
  • Support and develop Developers and DevOps engineers by providing advice and coaching in infrastructure concerns

Academic Qualifications:

  • Degree or equivalent experience are preferred as minimum.

Business Knowledge/Professional Qualifications:

  • Financial knowledge overall is desired but not a must.

Skills:

  • Appreciation of DevOps & Continuous Delivery concepts
  • Good understanding of Infrastructure as Code
  • Admin level knowledge of Linux & Windows
  • Good understanding of Networking
  • Able to build and maintain relationships with key IT staff
  • Technical and non-technical (i.e. process-based) documentation
  • Agile software development processes
  • Non-Functional requirements
  • Infrastructure and application architecture
  • Good appreciate of Information security principals
  • Pragmatic, problem-solving outlook

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, 25 days' holiday (plus one day after two years), private medical insurance, performance related bonuses, 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.

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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.