About SPW
Schroders Personal Wealth (SPW) is a joint venture between Lloyds Banking Group and Schroders - two of the UK's largest names in banking and asset management. We were created to help more people across the UK benefit from financial advice. We have the advantage of solid foundations and a strong heritage, but we take a fresh, transparent, and personal approach to financial planning.
We aim to provide clients with clarity and transparency in everything we do. This includes using technology to explain how long-term financial planning can add value to people's lives; to give people access to information about their financial wellbeing; and to communicate with their adviser when it's convenient for the client.
Our heritage may be 250 years old, but our sights are firmly set on the future.
The newly formed SPW Technology & Engineering function is responsible for building the technology platform to support our new venture. We are entirely in the cloud, taking advantage of powerful commoditised offerings where we can, and building bespoke cloud-native solutions when they can differentiate us from our competition.
About the role
Role Title - DevOps Engineer
Job type - Full-time, Permanent
Location - Remote with trips into the London or Leeds office
Salary - Up to £130,000 per annum + benefits package (detailed below)
As DevOps Engineer within our new partnership propositions and channels team, you will provide expertise to help delivery teams adopt a true DevOps mindset, taking ownership of their applications through the full SDLC, which we firmly believe runs from project inception through live running to decommissioning. You will assist with the automation of tasks from build and deployment through monitoring and alerting.
The ideal candidates is a team player, enjoys working hard, exhibits professionalism, is dedicated to meeting and exceeding expectations, has excellent problem-solving skills, is able to learn new technologies quickly, and uses their time efficiently.
We believe in an open and collaborative working environment, and we want you to draw upon your experience to establish this culture, whilst ensuring we don't skip over our regulatory obligations around process controls.
What we're looking for
* You can clearly articulate what DevOps and DevSecOps mean to you, and what a healthy approach is to these concepts.
* You have experience in driving devOps adoption and defining best practice, and guiding developers in adhering to these.
* You have designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines in support of build and deployment of both web and mobile applications.
* You understand how and where quality can be tested in automated CI/CD pipelines.
* You are equally attuned to the Ops aspect of devOps, and experienced in defining and delivering logging and monitoring strategies across distributed systems.
* You take a proactive approach to minimising outage.
* You retain hands on engineering skills in some or all of our core technical stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React (Native), CircleCI and AWS.
* You have a solid understanding of the opportunities of cloud computing and how to use it well.
* You have worked on public-facing systems, and understand how to build them to be secure, scalable and resilient.
Your qualities
* Humble: you acknowledge your strengths, and also your weaknesses; you work for more than your own personal glory.
* Curious: you follow the latest technology developments, and explore ways they can be adopted.
* Creative: you think beyond the obvious.
* Thorough: you consider the full-picture, and understand that details can matter.
* Calm: you're positive under pressure and happy to take the lead in challenging times.
The Amazing Benefits
SPW is committed to rewarding their colleagues in line with market for both fixed pay and benefits, and to link variable reward to the growth in value of their business and individual performance. SPW's benefits package provides you with core elements such as pension and medical cover with the flexibility to tailor these and many more to suit your individual needs.
* You will receive a cash sum of 4% in addition to your basic salary. Exchange your cash sum, for a variety of benefits. Including bikes for cycling to work, discounts on gym memberships and dental insurance; or you can simply receive cash.
* 25 days holiday, with the option to buy and sell holidays.
* Retail Discounts & Cashback is an online shop for hundreds of great discounts from leading high street brands.
* Up to 15% salary pension contribution
* All colleagues are eligible for financial advice with one of our Personal Wealth Advisers, regardless of income or investible assets. We offer a preferential rate for colleagues, capped at £750.
* Free 24 hour Employee Assistance Programme providing confidential support and advice across all the wellbeing elements.
* Private Medical Insurance
* Agile working - Agile is more than flexible working. It's the where, when and what of how SPW work, enabling collaboration to meet the needs of the business.
* Life Assurance - A cash lump sum equal to four times your salary (or eight times your salary if you are a member of the SPW pension scheme and have qualifying dependants) is payable to a beneficiary/ to beneficiaries of your choice should you die whilst employed by Schroders Personal Wealth.
Diversity
"At SPW, we don't just accept difference - we celebrate it, welcome it and recognise the value it brings to our clients and our colleagues. SPW is proud to be an equal opportunities employer and we are working hard to increase diversity across our organisation.
We welcome all. All colours, cultures, genders, beliefs, religions, ages, people. We depend on the unique approaches of our team members to help us meet our ambitions. We are committed to increasing diversity across our team and ensuring that Schroders Personal Wealth is a place where people from all backgrounds can make an impact and reach their potential. We are committed to working with and providing reasonable adjustments for applicants with disabilities."
If this sounds of interest and you have the relevant experience, please apply for more details.
