Cloud Engineer London, England
Janus Henderson
Full Time
London, England
10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description
We are a leading independent global asset manager, dedicated to delivering the best outcomes for our clients through a highly diversified range of actively-managed products. We are truly global, supporting our individual and institutional investors across a range of products, encompassing equities, fixed income, multi-asset and alternatives. Our high-energy and collaborative culture at Janus Henderson helps our client achieve their goals and ensures that our people love the place they work.
Our culture is the foundation for how we interact with clients and one another as part of our unique, people-focused work environment. We support a flexible hybrid working model that allows teams to build a strong and positive culture by inspiring innovation and increasing collaboration. Currently our hybrid working model allows employees to work 2 or more days in office and the remaining time remotely.
Employees and Managers will discuss and determine what schedule works best for them and the team, with additional flexibility available based on the role, business needs, and individual circumstances.
JHI Workplace Practices is subject to change as the future of work within our organization evolves.
JHI Workplace Practices is subject to change as the future of work within our organization evolves.
The Department
The Global Technology department plays a crucial role in supporting the success of the business. We are responsible for developing and implementing innovative software and hardware maintenance to support our fund management, trading,
distribution and operational areas with secure, stable and resilient technology platforms.
distribution and operational areas with secure, stable and resilient technology platforms.
Overview of the role
You will be part of the dedicated Cloud Engineering & Support team that is responsible for design, build and operational aspects of hybrid cloud. The successful candidate will be expected to have recent hands-on practical experience of running infrastructure resources and platforms within hybrid cloud using Microsoft Azure and will require the skills to collaboratively lead and mentor less-experienced team members through the process.
You will also be familiar with the challenges of implementing Infrastructure-as-Code practices and will have had practical experience of Devops and CD / CI at previous organisations.
You will be broadly familiar with the services and capabilities of the key public cloud providers and be comfortable at consulting with the Business in re-architecting systems to demonstrate the benefits of the cloud platform.
You will work across all areas within the IT Department to ensure knowledge transfer and skills adoption and will work with other parts of the Business to meet delivery requirements.
Duties and responsibilities
You will:
- Provide 1st / 2nd line Operations Support for JHI Cloud applications including membership of the on-call support Rota.
- Provide Infrastructure subject matter expertise in support of Janus Henderson’s cloud platforms running in Microsoft Azure.
- Be proactively responsible for ensuring the health of the cloud platform through regular maintenance activities, audit reviews and through the development of continuous improvement goals.
- Drive the technical design and implementation for Janus Henderson’s hybrid cloud capabilities, including establishing design and engineering patterns.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code, for use at scale within an Enterprise Environment, to support automated adherence to the patterns using Terraform, Yaml and Azure DevOps Pipelines and Repos.
- Develop and mature CloudOps capabilities within the team and identify simplification opportunities for operational processes.
- Engage in, or help develop, governance processes that ensure systems compliance to Janus Henderson’s cloud computing policy.
- Provide technical leadership and consultancy at initiation and design stages within projects and other changes which impact the hybrid cloud platform.
- Write clear and concise design & support documentation that is consistent with Janus Henderson’s design principles.
- Identify and promote innovative technologies that provide value as business enablers or create improvements in business process, cost, performance, and sustainability.
- Provide integration skills and experience to ensure the interoperability of new and existing systems.
- Carry out additional duties as assigned.
Technical skills and qualifications
- Significant and recent experience with Microsoft Azure PaaS & IaaS offerings in both an infrastructure and application context
- Significant experience as either a Cloud Engineer or Site Reliability Engineer in a global enterprise.
- Significant development experience of IaC using Terraform.
- Significant experience with Microsoft identity systems including Active Directory, Azure AD and associated technologies.
- Significant breadth of experience across business, application and data Architecture Domains.
- Proven problem management and resolution skills.
- Experience with Amazon Web Services in both an infrastructure and application context (desirable but not mandatory)
- Experience of working within an Agile framework
Competencies required
In addition to putting clients first, acting like an owner, and succeeding as a team, the competencies for this role include:
- Excellent collaboration and team building skills.
- Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills.
- Strong organisation and planning skills.
- Strong customer / stakeholder management skills across all levels of the business.
- Highly motivated with a passion for improvement and technical evolution.
- Understanding of risk, how it affects systems and an ability to articulate risk-based options to management for decision making.
Ongoing competence in the role to be assessed, in line with applicable regulatory requirements, by:
- Annual performance appraisal
- Completion of all assigned compliance training
- Annual attestation (Knowledge and Competence in-scope roles only)
Compliance requirements
At a minimum the role will require you to:
- Place the interest of Janus Henderson’s Clients first, act in accordance with TCF (Treating Customers Fairly) principles
- Understand and follow laws and regulations applicable for your role, seeking the help of your supervising manager or Compliance if additional guidance is required
- Understand and abide by all Janus Henderson policies applicable to your role, and seek support/guidance of the policy owner guidance when required
- You are ultimately accountable for your actions and responsible for seeking further information on any or all of the above as necessary.
Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employee’s job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion).
All applicants must be willing to comply with the provisions of Janus Henderson Investment Advisory Code of Ethics related to personal securities activities and other disclosure and certification requirements, including past political contributions and political activities. Applicants’ past political contributions or activity may impact applicants’ eligibility for this position. Janus Henderson is an equal opportunity /Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. All applications are subject to background checks.
