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Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

London – Hybrid (2 days a week in office)

As a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be key in ensuring our business continues to grow and be instrumental in defining the principals, technologies and methodologies we require to move us towards an always-on Operation. From early on, you’ll help empower our breakthrough innovations, be given challenging assignments, lead initiatives, and take ownership and responsibility. While we have a Cloud First strategy, we also have a significant on premise estate, so and ideal candidate will have experience and desire to work in both those areas of technology.

The successful candidate must be an Azure SME, have a good understanding of Security and Cost optimisation. This must be underpinned with the Terraform knowledge and ability to develop Infrastructure as Code.

We are looking for someone who is eager to use and grow your technological skills during a period of significant planned growth. Reporting into Cloud Engineering Manager and working with the leads and Technical Operations manager across the operational area as well as other technical leads, you will ensure that new technologies and product suites are delivered on time, on budget and always with an eye on the in-life capabilities and customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

Activity both in a continuous improvement cadence as well as project based work. Work will be delivered using an Agile framework
Design and build cloud-based infrastructure and architectures that optimize for performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency.
Define the NFRs for new services in the design phase
Work in collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure effective communication, implementation, and delivery of cloud-based solutions.
Develop and maintain automation tools, scripts, and processes for cloud-based application deployment, scaling, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Attend Technical Design Authority meetings to be the voice of the TechOps group
Assist in low level design of new products and implementations of new technologies
Be an SME in the requirements of the TechOps function, including on being the Technical Lead for Cloud Infrastructure, HCL and Terraform and on premise Infrastructure
Analyse and improve the legacy estate.

Skills and Experience:

Batchelor’s degree in Computer science or allied discipline
Microsoft Certification
Previous experience working with Cloud based providers (Azure) is essential
Previous experience of working in a regulated industry (preferably FCA / PRA controlled)
Working in an Agile/Scrum environment
Experience in a DevOps / DevSecOps environment.

Experience in Infrastructure as a code – ideally Terraform, Google Deployment Manager, AWS CloudFormation
Excellent communicator able to influence others from a wide variety of business functions.
Experience with Kubernetes/Docker or other container technologies
UNIX/Linux systems administration background (Centos/Ubuntu)
Experience troubleshooting in MS and Linux Stacks
Have the ability to understand and troubleshoot TCP/IP network stacks
Experience building Enterprise landing zones
Experience in using monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, Cacti, Icinga)

Company Benefits

A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones

Why Just?

We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.

Diversity, Equity and inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all of our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined a number of initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, de

signed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability and those who identify as LGBTQ+.

There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility and neurodiversity.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.

About Us

We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving pretty quickly.

How people work, save, and plan for the future is all changing. A new generation of retirees needs a new kind of retirement company. A company who will look for new ways of doing things – and will always put the customer first.

That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement. And with you on our team, we’re going to make sure they get it.

We’ve built our sustainability strategy around the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and have selected goals where we believe we can make the most difference. By aligning our activity with these global goals, we can make sure we play our part in addressing the wider issues facing the planet and leave a positive legacy to the world. You can read more about our sustainability strategy here.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are priorities for us. Having a diverse, talented workforce with colleagues of different backgrounds, world views and experiences is the right thing to do. It’s also the most effective way to succeed, innovate and better serve our customers now and in the future. We are committed to our targets on gender and ethnicity and run a number of successful mentoring and sponsorship programmes for our colleagues from diverse backgrounds. We have multiple active employee network groups which champion issues including gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and neurodiversity. You can read more about our DE&I strategy and commitments here.

What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other. We look forward to welcoming you to the team soon.

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