Site Reliability Engineer (AWS)

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 global asset management business provides our clients and partners with complex, responsible investment solutions, working internationally across public and private markets.

Recruiter:

Nasra Hussen (nasra.hussen@landg.com)

Internal Closing Date:

31/12/2025

Job Description

We are seeking a highly skilled AWS Site Reliability Engineer to play a key role in our digital transformation journey. This is an exceptional opportunity to contribute to shaping the future of our global technology landscape.

As an SRE Engineer, you will become a key member of our Global Support team, working alongside a dedicated group of professionals to maintain and enhance platforms and applications across our cloud technology stack. In this role, you will leverage your technical expertise to strengthen operational resilience, optimise performance, and drive innovation, ultimately delivering greater business value through technology.

What you’ll be doing:

Supporting applications running on production cloud environments (AWS and Azure)

Troubleshooting platform and application issues at the AWS/Azure layer

Handling BAU requests, including S3 bucket management, access control, and capacity increases

Optimising processes and automation to improve efficiency

Patching and maintaining serverless platforms on a regular basis

Managing OpenShift ROSA Kubernetes clusters

Maintaining Domino Kubernetes platform operations

Overseeing Asset Management’s Data platform maintenance and reliability

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for:

Proven experience in AWS or Azure platform engineering and support

Strong expertise in container orchestration, particularly Kubernetes environments

Deep knowledge of cloud services (AWS or Azure), including IAM, compute, serverless, storage, and networking

Practical understanding of API and container deployment patterns

Hands-on experience with Terraform for infrastructure-as-code management

Familiarity with production release processes and ITIL-based change management (e.g., ServiceNow)

Proficiency in monitoring, logging, cost optimisation, and container image management

Solid grasp of networking fundamentals (DNS, load balancing, SSL, TCP/IP) and scripting skills in Bash or Python

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)

At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years’ service. There’s also the option to buy and sell holiday

Competitive family leave

Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)

There are the many discounts we offer – both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online

In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information

At L\&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.