Senior DevOps Engineer

Company Description

Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.

We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.

We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.

Our Retail business supports customers throughout their lives, to help them save, plan, protect and enjoy retirement.

We're a leading provider of retirement and protection solutions. We aim to support our c.12.8 million policyholders and workplace members throughout their lifelong financial journeys.

We focus on helping the customers of today and tomorrow achieve better long‑term outcomes. We either talk with them directly or work with intermediaries and employers to meet their needs. We use the latest technology to connect with them quickly, efficiently and wherever possible in highly personalised ways.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Dev Ops Engineer to play a key role in designing, implementing, and enhancing scalable, secure, and high-performance platforms. In this position, you will apply deep expertise in automation, cloud infrastructure, and system reliability to solve complex technical challenges, evolve our CI/CD pipelines, and architect solutions that accelerate deployment, strengthen resilience, and support operational excellence.

In addition to hands‑on engineering responsibilities, you will mentor colleagues, contribute to technical strategy, and collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams to ensure the delivery of robust, high‑quality software. Your leadership will help define Dev Ops best practices, improve system reliability, and enable the organisation to deliver products aligned with strategic business objectives.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading strategic automation and platform‑modernisation initiatives by assessing emerging technologies and implementing enhancements that improve performance, developer experience, and operational maturity across business‑critical applications
• Owning and driving complex release processes, coordinating cross‑team delivery to ensure predictable, high‑quality deployments while proactively identifying risks, bottlenecks, and systemic issues
• Architecting and continuously optimising CI/CD pipelines, introducing best‑practice tooling, automation standards, and governance to enhance delivery speed, stability, and consistency
• Championing observability and operational excellence by designing and managing advanced monitoring, logging, and alerting frameworks that enable proactive issue identification and rapid incident response
• Embedding security, compliance, and resilience into infrastructure and delivery pipelines, ensuring alignment with internal standards, regulatory obligations, and secure‑by‑design principles
• Providing technical leadership during production incidents, guiding cross‑team response efforts, driving root‑cause analysis, and delivering long‑term remediation to strengthen system reliability
• Mentoring and coaching engineers across Dev Ops and development functions, promoting best practices, elevating technical capability, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Collaborating closely with cross‑functional teams, including development, QA, architecture, security, and product, to align technical solutions with business objectives and ensure seamless delivery within sprint and release cycles

Who we're looking for:

• Demonstrable experience in Dev Ops engineering, supported by a technology‑focused degree or equivalent hands‑on expertise
• Proficiency in scripting/programming (e.g., Python, Go, Ruby, or Rust) and strong understanding of core networking concepts (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, VPNs, firewalls)
• Hands‑on experience with CI/CD tooling such as Git Hub Actions, Azure Dev Ops, Jenkins, or Git Lab CI
• Practical knowledge…