Aegon

Sr DevOps Engineer

Permanent

Location: UK - Edinburgh/Peterborough/Witham or NL - Den Haag (Office move to Schiphol WTC by end of 2024).

Closing date: 1st May 2024

Global Technology Services (GTS) is Aegon's global IT partner that provides infrastructure services, information security and global/corporate application support for Aegon's businesses around the world.

From 6 locations in the US, the Netherlands, UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units and 24000+ employees in the world. Our support consists of a wide range of centralized global IT services such as programming, database management, project management, agile/dev/ops, and more.

We continue to maximize the value from having a clear digital and data technology platform strategy that extends our ecosystem, as an approach to digitization, enhancing customer experience, and improving operational efficiency.

All of these teams work closely together to provide innovative and digital solutions as well as critical technology support. This is essential for enabling Aegon's businesses around the globe to be innovative, digital and competitive, efficient, and effective, and to provide the best solutions and customer experience for our customers and shareholders.

The Job

GTS Infrastructure Cloud teams design, build, support, and enable business use of a Cloud environment which combines services from public Cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. This team creates and implements the cloud security policies and rules that get deployed enterprise wide. You will work on an agile team with developers from internal business units to deliver business value and outcomes. You will help to develop, test, and implement infrastructure code to assist the team in achieving their goals. Work will be done start to finish by an intact cross-functional team using an agile methodology including a product owner and agile coach. Each member of the team brings unique technical skills and strives to cross train to gain additional technical knowledge across multiple disciplines in an exciting and dynamic work environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, deploy, and support Cloud infrastructure as code artifacts or modules
• Build and Maintain Cloud infrastructure and applications
• Support resiliency and scalability using Azure and other cloud platforms
• Mentor junior team members to ensure knowledge sharing and upskilling is taking place
• Support and deliver using continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines
• Enable systems with automated monitoring and alerting
• Support the team and customers with day-to-day requests, and change/incident tickets
• Support technology stack refresh on systems (end-to-end) when required
• Ensure automated security is built into each technology stack
• Understand and respond to emerging requirements and ambiguous technology decisions
• Help define transformational and sustainable strategy

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Relevant experience including supporting enterprise-level platform installations
• Experience with agile development and planning methodologies 
• Experience in performance monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting in an enterprise
• Holistic understanding of the internet and hosting from the network layer up through the application layer
• Understanding of Azure Bicep, Devops and Defender
• Ability to write secure code to protect applications from attack and defend against cybersecurity vulnerabilities
• Ability to give and receive feedback as part of a cohesive agile team
• Flexibility and adaptability to change, and continuous learning mindset
• Customer focused
• Decision making and problem-solving skills

Desirable but not essential:

• Certifications (Azure, AWS)
• Understanding of DataBricks, DataFactory, Monitor

UK Compensation:

The salary for this position generally ranges between £68,400 - £94,050. This range is an estimate, based on potential employee qualifications, operational needs and other considerations permitted by law.

Plus:

• A non-contributory pension between 8%-12%
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance
• 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro-rated for part-time)

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments.

NL Compensation:

€ 68,666.61 - € 114,444.51

• This position is not eligible for an incentive bonus

Plus:

• A Comprehensive Wealth + Health package
• Wealth Benefits; Competitive Pay, Bonus, and Benefits Package
• Health and Work/Life Balance Benefits
• By the end of 2024 Aegon will move to our new office at Schiphol WTC

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check, as well as providing satisfactory references.