Principle Cloud Solutions Lead
Date Posted: 23/10/2024
Location: London
Job Type: Full time
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Full Time
London or Belfast - Hybrid
Who are Just?
We’re a FTSE 250 Financial Services company who specialise in retirement solutions and right now, our world is moving quickly. With the defined benefit buy in / buy out space growing each year, Just continues to annually grow its business by over £2bn of assets.
We are a purpose driven company with compelling and credible goals. Quite simply, we help people achieve a better later life. We achieve this by providing competitive and innovative products, services, financial advice, and guidance to help our customers achieve security, certainty and provide them with peace of mind in retirement.
That’s who we are. We’re a company on a mission: to become a beacon for the entire retirement industry. Because we believe everyone deserves a fair, secure, and fulfilling retirement.
Purpose
To ensure Just’s cloud solutions have a coherent, consistent and secure architecture
Key Accountabilities
To ensure solutions are designed and developed in line with strategy and adhering to design principles and policies
To maintain an up to date understanding of cyber security and ensure solutions are sufficiently protected against threats
To be an expert in Identity Access Management and build out an Identity Strategy for Just
To produce and maintain cloud reference architectures, standards, policies and principles
To research, advise on and design high quality cloud solutions
To support teams in adopting cloud technology by supplying reference code, supporting material and ongoing advice
To research and recommend new technologies
Consulting/reviewing designs for solutions and advising on options/alternatives/new strategies, patterns and practices and security
Provide technical consultation and advice to the information security team and other technical teams on cloud architecture, security and identity
Providing reference code/infrastructure/tooling and demonstrations of technology, providing tangible examples for infrastructure and application architecture using cloud based service
Running chalk & talks, presentations, demos, prototypes, show & tells to educate users.
Being a DevSecOps advocate, encouraging iterative design, with full automation for maximum scalability and speed of change
Outside initiatives, maintain roadmaps and recommend changes to upgrade existing capabilities w.r.t non-functional requirements, such as security, scalability and maintainability.
Design processes and systems for managing keys/secrets/certificates
Technical SME/technical stakeholder for key cloud infrastructure, API Management Identity Access Management platforms
Contribute to and advise on vulnerability testing and security assessments
Respond immediately to security-related incidents/events and provide a thorough post-event analysis
Mentor and supports colleagues, attend or organise communities of practice centred around technologies or systems
Present and review designs to the Technical Design Authority
Review requests for the Software and Services Approval Board, Due Diligence and Change Advisory Board.
About You
Must be well versed in Azure and AWS with a good understanding of Security and Cost optimisation
Strong Terraform knowledge is essential, (ability to develop Infrastructure as Code).
In depth understanding of Cloud infrastructure.
In depth knowledge Cloud Architecture and Design Patterns
Ability to produce and present high quality technical documentation
Knowledge of typical enterprise architecture cloud patterns for event sourcing, asynchronous/guaranteed message delivery, microservices
DevOps experience
Commercial experience of architecture in an agile framework
Proven ability to work in a collaborative agile environment and to coach and mentor others
Experience in AI space - desirable
Company Benefits
A Competitive Salary, Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
Along with 25 Days Annual Leave plus an Additional Day on us for your Birthday
Private Medical Cover and Income Protection, just in case
A generous and highly achievable bonus scheme – paid annually based on individual and company performance against targets
Opportunity to progress within your career both in-role and within the company
FREE access to the Headspace App, a 24/7 Employee Assistance Helpline and Trained Physical & Mental Health First Aiders (On-Site)
A variety of Employee Funded Benefits available to you via our Online Benefits Portal
Plus, several additional purchase options available for you and your loved ones
Why Just
We are committed to building a more sustainable business and have publicly committed to reduce our scope 3 emissions to Net Zero by 2050 and our scope 1 and 2 emissions to Net Zero by 2025. We’ve made good progress so far and encourage our people to make small and meaningful changes in their everyday lives, so that we can protect our planet for future generations.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) is a key priority for Just as part of our overall strategy and ensuring all our people feel proud to work at Just. We have joined several initiatives including the Race at Work Charter, designed to improve outcomes for employees from underrepresented backgrounds. We also run a Reciprocal Mentoring scheme for employees from a BAME background, those with a disability, and those who identify as LGBTQ+. There are multiple employee network groups, which champion issues including race, gender, social mobility, and neurodiversity.
What’s clear about working at Just is that we care. We care about our customers, our purpose, our environment, inclusivity, wellbeing and most importantly - each other.