Lead SRE & DevOps Engineer - Hybrid
Location: London
Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.
We are looking for a Lead DevOps/SRE Engineer with proven DevSecOps skills, to support our transformation and the future growth of the Canada Life UK business. We are on a journey of simplifying our IT estate, removing our legacy systems and delivering innovative solutions through Cloud adoption, AI and expanding our digital services.
As a member of the CLUK Product Engineering team, you will be involved in every stage of the product lifecycle from conception, design, implementation, testing, through to operational support.
With automation at the heart of everything we are doing, you should have a strong hands-on understanding of CI/CD tools, to build secure and reliable applications.
We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements and this role offers a hybrid work from home /office model, with the expectation of being onsite for team meets and events. Our office locations include London, Potters Bar, Bristol and Isle of Man.
Develop automation scripts for deployment and maintenance of applications
Monitor system performance and health; Ensure compliance with all security policies and standards
Document system configurations and processes
Provide guidance to less experienced Product Engineering team members to help them learn and develop their own skills
Application support within a Financial Services context (SaaS, PaaS, Cloud, On-Prem hosted applications)
Relevant experience as a DevOps or SRE Engineer
Highly proficient in scripting languages like Powershell, Python, Ruby, Bash, and programming languages like C# for automating tasks and creating tools.
Azure/AWS/GCP and related services
Experience of cloud engineering within containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
Demonstrates following sound engineering practices, especially utilising automation tools, working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins or GitHub Actions (or similar)
Used to working within Agile frameworks and can coach others to do the same
Good understanding of networks, firewalls, load balancers and associated infrastructure needs
Microsoft Azure certifications are a plus
Designing, implementing and day-to-day use of logging and monitoring tools to capture data for alerting and issue identification and resolution using DataDog, App Insights or similar tools.
Networking & Security
Monitor and enhance network performance, ensuring high levels of security and scalability across all cloud environments.
Enforce security best practices in AKS, including network policies, RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), and integration with Azure Active Directory
Azure core services such as Azure Storage, including Blob, Azure VMs, Azure LB, Azure ASG, Azure Serverless, Azure DB, Azure Container Instance, Kubernetes, and Docker.
Software development experience, ideally in .NET stack.
SQL skills to manage and interact with databases as part of the application deployment process.
Design, implement, and manage continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines using Azure DevOps and Octopus Deploy, applied in particular to deployment of containerised applications
Develop the deployment, scaling, and management of containerised applications in AKS, ensuring high availability and performance
Work on the migration of existing infrastructure and applications from on premise data centre to Azure, ensuring a smooth and efficient transition with minimal downtime.
Provide expertise and architectural assistance to other IT staff and project teams, supporting knowledge upskill where needed.
Work closely with development teams to define deployment strategies, troubleshoot issues, and support application performance
provide training and support to team members
We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that's regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.
We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That's why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.
Diversity and inclusion
Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you. # Apply
