DevOps Engineer

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About the role

Hargreaves Lansdown (HL) are now recruiting for a DevOps Engineer to join the team. As a DevOps Engineer you'll be designing, maintaining, and enhancing AWS cloud infrastructures for running applications. These infrastructures include production, test, and development environments. It involves deploying, managing, fixing, and reinventing the tools, services, and components of the environment.

What you'll be doing:

• Be responsible for the planning, implementation, and growth of the AWS cloud infrastructure
• Simplifying and reinventing systems, processes, and tools to make development experience better
• Managing and growing innovative, production-quality tools to solve real operational problems for our environment
• Investigating technical issues scientifically and thoroughly, and assisting in fixing them so they don't come back
• Providing technical solutions to real business problems in an organization
• Recommend process and architecture improvements
• Implement continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines when necessary
• Managing and owning services and capabilities that are used to deliver client outcomes

About you

• Strong AWS knowledge
• Experience with Terraform automation language
• Knowledge of Python
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience automating software deployments and following a continuous delivery and deployment (CI/CD) model
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and DevOps environments
• Practical knowledge of system architectures and networking
• Working independently, receiving minimal guidance
• Accountability for ongoing activities or objectives
• Acting as a resource for colleagues with less experience
• Occasionally leading the work of small project teams
• Providing informal guidance to junior staff

Interview process

This role will be a two-stage interview process, consisting of a competency/behavioural based interview and a technical assessment.

Working Schedule

We are based in Bristol, BS1 5HL. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We have returned to the office, however for this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home.

Why us?

Here at HL, we're the UK's number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we've helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* and annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday**
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness providers and wellness coach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• Two paid volunteering days per year

* dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis - please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.