Technical Specialist (Azure)

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Founded in 1861, we're the UK's largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. Our award-winning customer service and our mutuality means we can give customers that little bit more, and you can trust us to be there for you when it counts.

Technical Specialist (Azure)

Edinburgh/Wilmslow

Permanent Contract

Closing date - 20th October 2019

At Royal London we want to attract the best talent to help us achieve our vision of becoming the most trusted and recommend financial company in the UK.

We are the largest mutual life, pensions and Investment Company in the UK, with Group funds under management of £118.9 billion and latest ProfitShare pay out to members of £142 million.  Group businesses provide around 9.0 million policies and employ 3,976 people (figures as of 05 Feb 2019). 

We have an existing opportunity for a Technical Specialist to join our Service Delivery & Operations family within the wider Group Technology and Change area in either our Edinburgh or Wilmslow office

The main purpose of this role is to implement, extend and oversee our Azure tenancy. 

What will you be doing

Continuous collaboration with Architecture team to assist with the development of the Royal London cloud strategy

With our Azure partner, translation of the cloud strategy and architecture into a highly available and secure technical implementation, in accordance with best practices

Overseeing technically the support provided by our 3rd party Azure support partner

Managing changes, via appropriate change control, for tenancy wide or product wide changes

Playing a lead role with any major outages of the Cloud service(s)

Automating processes required for the management and governance of the cloud service

Supporting junior system administrators

What we're looking for

Extensive experience via day to day oversight of the Azure service

Understanding changes of product and being able to configure it specific to the organisation.

Experience with utilising PowerShell to configure and control the service

Ability to configure bases Azure services via standard "Infrastructure As Code" software e.g. ARM Templates, TerraForm, Ansible etc.

Experience in overseeing the service delivery and supporting colleagues

Ability to automate through a scripting language and experience with script testing approaches is highly advantageous

Strong understanding of core infrastructure areas such as server operating systems, network operations, storage and security

A solid working understanding of networks and how Azure can be affected by differing configurations / workload

Skills that will help you in the role

Experience in setting up and migrating other systems to Azure

Ideally candidates will have experience/comfortable working in an agile environment

An excellent communicator and comfortable liaising with stakeholders at all levels

Experience of administering Windows or Linux systems

Strong problem solving and decision making skills

Comfortable working independently and within a team environment.

What we offer

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering a number of benefits  such as Pensions and Protection, Performance and role-related benefits, Lifestyle and Wellbeing 

Our culture comes from within, or to put it another way, it comes from our people. It's what makes Royal London a great place to work.

Our People Promise is something we live up to every day. We know we can rely on you, and you can expect plenty from us in return.

Glassdoor have ranked as among the best places to work and this year we entered the top 10 

We are an equal opportunities employer. We work hard to attract the best talent for our award-winning team. We believe that embracing difference makes us stronger. Our diverse people bring us different skills - whatever their educational background, disability, gender, age, sexual orientation, race, religion or belief.

We will consider flexible working arrangements for all our roles. We also welcome applications from individuals who have taken an extended career break.