DevOps Engineer

**About Us**

Lloyd’s is the world’s leading insurance and reinsurance marketplace. Yet the world is changing, and Lloyd’s is changing too - nimbler, faster, and able to offer customers and employees more products, services and insights supported by technology, innovationand the continuing desire to protect people, businesses and communities. Lloyd’s is where you can bring your future to life.

Technology will drive business value for Lloyd’s of London and its customers by delivering effective and efficient IT services that embrace innovation for competitive advantage, whilst leveraging its global scope to standardise and integrate platforms and securethe highest value from strategic partnership through optimal sourcing.

**The Role**

To work as a part of cross-functional, self-organising team which will build DevOps solutions plus analyse and identify process and automation improvements within our software development lifecycle.

**Responsibilities**
- Assist/support/contribute and provide thought leadership in developing standardised, automated build processes across Lloyd’s project outputs.
- Take a hands-on development and automation role on products; designing, coding, testing and implementing new functionality and supporting existing services, embracing a continuous delivery mind-set.
- Specialist knowledge of provisioning of environments via an automated method either on premise or in the cloud
- Guidance and strategy for product teams on automation of software builds and releases
- Evaluation of DevOps tooling and guidance for product teams and the business in architecture, standards and principles for adoption.
- Working with developers to provide standards around builds and release pipelines to allow for continuous software delivery practices to be established
- Managing the Configuration of environments, to allow for automation of environment deployments

**Skills**
- Ability to facilitate workshops and effective solution identification
- Deploying SQL database/Azure Data Factory using Azure DevOps pipelines
- Branching and merging strategies within Azure DevOps/Git
- Experience with using Infrastructure-as-code technologies to deploy compute in Microsoft Azure.
- Excellent relationship management skills, including the ability to negotiate, agree and then manage the scope of activities
- Excellent interpersonal skills, written/oral communication and presentation skills.

**Knowledge**
- Customer-centric approach to delivering appropriate business solutions
- Application lifecycle management and project delivery, using Agile methodologies such as SCRUM and Kanban
- Microsoft Azure ecosystem
- Azure DevOps
- Microsoft sql server deployments
- DevSecOps concepts, e.g. Continuous integration, automated testing, infrastructure-as-code, container deployments, cloud technologies
- Windows Server
- Powershell scripting language knowledge
- Working with cloud platforms and cloud automation tools (e.g. Terraform/Chef/Puppet/Azure ARM templates)
- Powershell Desired State Configuration (DSC)
- Working with software containers (e.g. Docker) and continuous integration tools

**Experience**
- Working as part of a collaborative, self-organising agile team
- Experience of working in a fast-paced Technology environment

Realise your professional ambitions as part of an organisation that is trusted to solve some of the world’s most complex problems in an environment that puts a focus on investing in human progress.

Please be aware that the recruitment process will comprise of a number of steps, your CV will be reviewed by our Recruitment team and if successful you will be invited to attend a telephone interview, followed by a more in-depth video interview. We wantto make sure we do all we can to make this a really positive experience for you.