DevOps Lead Engineer

Admiral Financial Services (AFSL) is an exciting, new divison of Admiral Group based in the the centre of Cardiff. We have the freedom and innovation of a small start up with the security of a large parent company, Admiral.

The journey started when we launched unsecured personal loans in June 2017. We went on to be the first direct to consumer car finance provider in December 2017. Since then, we have gone from strength to strength and have some really exciting plans for the future!

We’re looking for people who are keen to learn, excited about getting stuck in and are ready for a challenge to help us to achieve our aim of creating a special lending business for our customers.

As a business it is important to us that our staff are transparent, creative and curious whilst being actively involved in our culture

The Role 

You will join a talented, modern Devops team working on the latest technologies and platforms: AWS, Terraform, GitLab, Kubernetes and constantly exploring more. 

You will be working in a growing environment that prioritizes automation, CI/CD and the latest technology to support the development teams.

Together with your colleagues you will own the maintenance, deployment, improvement and troubleshooting of all the systems that compose the AFSL infrastructure.

​Responsibilities

• Be an inspiring leader for the AFSL DevOps team, creating the vision and roadmap to build a high performing team
• Support the development of people to reach their potential and achieve their ambition
• Work with the team to support design, build, test, deployment and integrity of new products and features
• Participate in code reviews, retros and demos
• Ensuring the performance, availability, security and continuity of infrastructure across all AFSL environments 24x7x365.
• Focus on proactive monitoring and catching issues early
• Learn about new technologies and related tools to introduce to the company in order to grow the agile development environment
• Work with AFSL and other 3^rd party developers to make sure new environments meet requirements and conform to best practices.
• Research and architect solutions to solve security and compliance requirements
• Diagnose and resolve technical issues
• Source code control (GitHub or GitLab)
• Automated build and deployments using Jenkins / GitLab CI
• Containers and Kubernetes
• Cloud services and automation tools Ansible, Terraform
• Solid scripting skills in one or more of: Python, Bash, PHP
• Good networking (TCP/IP, VPNs, Firewalls, DNS)
• Securing and hardening SaaS, Linux, AWS
• Familiarity with databases and proficiency in MySQL/AWS Redshift
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Excellent remote collaboration skills, rapid multi-channel text, voice and video communication and multitasking

Requirements

• Expertise in a broad range of AWS resources and product sets
• Knowledge of security best practice within AWS
• Experience of container orchestration framework administration and deployment
• Infrastructure as Code, primarily Terraform, in a production environment
• Experience with Agile, scrum & cross-functional teams
• Broad understanding of Financial Services sector
• Ability to communicate succinctly across multiple stakeholders

Desirable

• Existing professional cloud certification
• Expertise in monitoring and alerting services and platforms
• Linux system administration
• Specific experience in certain AWS areas including Connect, Workspaces and data platforms

About Admiral

We're Wales’ only FTSE 100 company. We have forward-thinking approaches and provide endless opportunities to test, learn and grow. There's a reason we've been named a Best Place to Work: our progressive culture, core values, and commitment to diversity and inclusion have created a working environment where people share ideas, aren’t afraid to speak up and change things, and above all, feel valued.

Admiral has grown from being a small start-up into a multi-national organisation. The company is constantly investigating new products, services and markets and is now present in eight countries with a diverse product portfolio.

Our success goes hand-in-hand with having a strong culture where we put our people and customers first. Our philosophy is simple yet effective: people who like what they do, do it better, and this, in turn, means that our customers receive the level of service and products that they deserve. Our culture is honest, open and wholeheartedly focused on four key areas:

Communication, Equality, Reward & Recognition, and Fun.

*Applications will be reviewed and Interviews will take place during the first two weeks in January*

Salary, Benefits and Work-Life Balance

We do not have a set salary for this position, as it will be dependent on the successful candidate’s experience. We are happy to see CVs from all candidates who meet the requirements and will be happy to discuss the remuneration package.

At Admiral, we are proud to be a diverse business where we put our people and customers first. We have great benefits to ensure employees have a great work-life balance; it's one of the reasons why we're consistently voted one of the Sunday Times’ Best Big Companies to work for in the UK.

We want you to have an element of freedom to define a working lifestyle that supports this, so accommodate flexible hours wherever possible.

You can also view some of our other key benefits here; https://admiraljobs.co.uk/employee-benefits/.

If you think this role is for you and would like to be considered for this opportunity, please click “apply now” to complete an online application form.

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