Job Title: Engineering Lead - GTO
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh or Alderley Edge
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 12th May 2024
We are currently seeking a highly experienced and motivated professional to join our team as a Engineering Lead within GTO at Royal London. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in leading the development and implementation of software solutions that meet the needs of our organisation and clients.
The GTO Engineering team are responsible for supporting and managing the Azure Platform for Royal London Group. Defining and implementing a robust, scalable, secure, resilient solutions that is monitored and cost optimised. The purpose of this role is to lead a team of DevOps Engineers, to setup and manage Azure cloud infrastructure for the delivery teams. Ensuring best practice is adhered to and delivered.
This position requires a strong technical background, excellent leadership skills, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
About the role
- You will have good experience in Terraform; able to create reusable modules, that is scalable and easily maintainable for multiple development teams and multiple environments. Ensuring best practice is considered and implemented.
- Experience in Azure cloud, good understanding of virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, firewalls, and Azure policy. Good understanding of Azure cloud resources such as Data factory, Azure Function Apps, Web Apps, Azure SQL, API Management, Event Grid and Virtual Machines. Experience of creating cloud images using Packer or similar tools. Good understanding of infrastructure redundancy, scalability, and cost optimisation.
- Azure DevOps experience, using Git source control, CI/CD processes, YAML builds, Azure cloud scale set build servers.
- Ability to see strategic long-term Platform build out and how we can manage to propel RLG modernization initiatives.
- Able to provide training to other DevOps engineers, development teams and production support teams. Provide knowledge and experience on best ways to approach complex implementations.
- You will be able to mentor junior developers on best software engineering practices.
- Strong trouble shooting skills around Azure networking, storage, databases, security, and cloud resources.
- Experience working in a Scrum methodology delivering work in regular Sprints in an Agile environment.
About you
- You will have Terraform experience, Azure Cloud, Azure DevOps using Git, CI/CD. PowerShell experience, with Networking experience.
- Desirable experience: Azure SQL server experience, Microsoft .NET Technologies: ETL, SSIS, SQL Server, C#, API, and Python.
- You will have strong interpersonal skills enabling effective collaboration and effective engagement with stakeholders within RL and external third parties.
- You will be a strong communicator, both verbally and written. As well, as strong organisational and analytical skills.
- Can work independently without supervision.
- Ability to work as part of a team and familiar with agile principles and delivery practices.
- Ability to lead a technical team, with the ability to influence and motivate.
- Prepared to challenge with constructive ideas, holding firm and assertive position where necessary.
About Royal London
We're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We're an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected - whatever their background.