DevOps Engineer

To further our expansion, we are now recruiting for a new DevOps Platform Engineer to align to our direct-to-consumer development team. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping deliver continuous improvement for our award-winning client facing applications.

What does the job involve?

• Agile methodologies and a passion for continuous improvement and building a high-performance engineering team
  
  
• To guide and mentor the team to design and deliver high quality products
  
  
• Consider architectural and non-functional requirements and work with the team to deliver scalable solutions
  
  
• Contribute to the design, management & maintenance of our AWS hosted infrastructure covering our dev, UAT and production environments.
  
  
• Hands on with the ability to have direct impact on the future of our products and platforms
  
  
• You will be working closely with other engineers across development, architecture and devOps
  
  
• Provide a resilient, scalable and secure platform
  
  
• Problem management and root cause analysis
  
  
• Appreciation of costs management, actively monitoring monthly cloud spend
  
  Competence, Knowledge and Skills
  
  
• Containerisation (Docker and AWS ECS or similar)
  
  
• Linux and Windows, with emphasis on scripting and automation.
  
  
• Automation tools, focusing on deployments through CodeBuild and CodePipeline.
  
  
• AWS-based capacity and performance logging and monitoring solutions.
  
  
• Experience in architecting and building solutions to support highly available and scalable web sites, mobile apps and public APIs.
  
  About us:
  
  AJ Bell is one of the fastest-growing investment platform businesses in the UK offering an award-winning range of solutions that caters for everyone, from professional financial advisers, to DIY investors with little to no experience. We have over 561,000 customers using our award-winning platform propositions to manage assets totalling more than £89.5 billion. Our customers trust us with their investments, and by continuously striving to make investing easier, we aim to help even more people take control of their financial futures.
  
  Having listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange in December 2018, AJ Bell is now a FTSE 250 company.
  
  Headquartered in Manchester with offices in central London and Bristol, we now have over 1,500 employees and have been named one of the UK's 'Best 100 Companies to Work For’ for six consecutive years and in 2024 named a Great Place to Work®.
  
  At AJ Bell you can expect a friendly working environment with a strong sense of teamwork, we have a great sense of pride in what we do, and this is reflected in our guiding principles.
  
  What we offer:
  
  
• Starting holiday entitlement of 25, increasing up to 31 days with length of service and a holiday buy and sell scheme
  
  
• A choice of pension schemes with matched contributions up to 6%
  
  
• Discretionary bonus scheme
  
  
• Annual free share awards scheme and a Buy As You Earn (BAYE) Scheme
  
  
• Health Cash Plan – provided by SimplyHealth and discounted private healthcare scheme and dental plan
  
  
• Free onsite gym
  
  
• Employee Assistance Programme
  
  
• Bike loan scheme and loans for travel season tickets
  
  
• Sick pay+ pledge
  
  
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave
  
  
• Death in service scheme
  
  
• Paid time off for volunteer work, charitable giving opportunities through salary sacrifice, calendar of social events, including monthly payday drinks, annual Christmas party, summer party and much more
  
  
• Ongoing technical training, professional qualification support and talent development programmes
  
  
• Peer recognition scheme, with rewards including restaurant and shopping vouchers or time off
  
  Hybrid working:
  
  At AJ Bell, our people are the heart of our culture. We believe in building strong connections by working together. That's why we offer a hybrid working model, where you’ll spend a minimum of 50% of your working time per month in the office. For new team members, an initial period will be full-time in the office to help you immerse yourself in our business and build valuable relationships with your colleagues.
  
  AJ Bell is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and all employees are empowered to bring their whole self to work.
  
  We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, pregnancy, religion, physical and mental disability, marital status and any other characteristics protected by the Equality Act 2010. All decisions to hire are based on qualifications, merit and business need.
  
  If you like the sound of the above, or just want to know more about the company and the role, we'd love to speak to you