Senior DevOps Engineer

Rothesay is the UK’s largest pensions insurance specialist, purpose-built to protect pension schemes and their members’ pensions. With over £68 billion of assets under management, we secure the pensions of more than one million people and pay out, on average, approximately £200 million in pension payments each month.

Rothesay is dedicated to providing excellence in customer service alongside prudent underwriting, a conservative investment strategy and the careful management of risk. We are trusted by the pension schemes of some of the UK’s best known companies to provide pension solutions, including British Airways, Cadbury, the Civil Aviation Authority, the Co-Operative, Morrisons, Smiths Industries and Telent.

At Rothesay, we are striving to transform our industry. We believe deeply in creating real security for the future and our leadership in finding new and better ways to do that is the key to our success. To do that, we need the very brightest original thinkers to bring creativity as well as rigour. Rothesay is a rewarding place to work, where quality people can thrive and prosper. We pride ourselves on the connections our people build, many of whom have been with us for over ten years.

Job title: Senior DevOps Engineer

Contract: Permanent

The team:

As a key member of Space Quest team, in this role, you will be responsible for a platform that enables continuous deployment of systems throughout the Rothesay estate. This role is critical in enabling consistent delivery and minimising change failure rate of our company's IT systems, identifying, and driving efficiency and reliability improvement initiatives through the estate. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in independently building and developing solutions for continuous deployment, for measuring and improving DevOps metrics, and in working with infrastructure and development teams as well as 3rd parties. You will need to work both on your own, with others and at times under pressure to meet deadlines.

Key Responsibilities
- Work with the Business Engineering team to enhance and support the CI/CD build and deploy pipelines on our multiple target platforms, implement and automate change management controls for in-house developed systems and platforms used by Rothesay’s business.
- Support Site Reliability Engineering to improve and unify application and deployment observability and establish practises for Disaster Recovery Testing.
Support the migration from on-prem deployments to Rothesay Cloud platform in AWS, working closely with the platform and support functions to ensure a seamless transition and an effective and efficient process.
- Proactively identify faults and SDLC process bottlenecks before they become visible problems. Implement solutions to improve reliability and scalability.
- Actively work with business stakeholders, and technology teams to establish standards for measuring and improving our change frequency, time to recover, and change fail rate.
- Where applicable, work with the Business Engineering and other teams to help automate manual and repeatable tasks. Implement automation tools and frameworks for automatic code deployment and system management.
- Develop and maintain documentation related to system configuration and operational processes.

Skills and Technology Experience

Required:
- 5+ years’ experience in software engineering involving DevOps/SRE (preferably in a regulated
sector)
- 3+ years Python development experience
- Understanding of Continuous Delivery
- Understanding and experience with measuring and improving common DORA metrics
- Experience with Cloud technologies (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes)
- Experience with application and platform observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana, etc.)
- Good reasoning skills
- Team player with excellent communication skills
Desirable:
- Cloud security experience
- Network and monitoring experience
- Experience with database management
- Proven ability to query 3rd party APIs for integration and data analysis

Rothesay competencies

• Dedication to role – Motivated to provide an effective support service across all facets of role
• Team Player – Demonstrates evidence of being a strong team player, collaborates well with others and encourages other admin team members
• Communication – Ability to communicate what is relevant and important in a clear, constructive and concise manner
• Organised - Ability to work under pressure and prioritise workload in a fast paced environment. Ability to work autonomously with limited supervision
• Creative and innovative – Looks for ways to improve current processes and help develop creative solutions that have practical value for the admin team
• Judgement and Problem Solving – Proactive, sees the big picture and willing to be flexible to solve issues as they arise

Inclusion Rothesay actively promotes diversity and inclusivity. We know that our success depends on our people and that by nurturing a culture that values difference, we create a stronger, more dynamic business. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability or age.

Disclaimer This position description is intended to describe the duties most frequently performed by an individual in this position. It is not intended to be a complete list of assigned duties, but to describe a position level.  The role shall be performed within a professional office environment. Rothesay has health and safety polices that are available for all workers upon request.  There are no specific health risks associated with the role.