Job Description

Excited to grow your career?

Our purpose is to \'empower people to save and invest with confidence\'. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

About the role

Hargreaves Lansdown, a leading FTSE 100 FinTech company, is undergoing a technology transformation. As part of this journey, we are creating a Hybrid Cloud Team that will transform our Infrastructure Estate and move HL towards a hybrid cloud deployment, using VMWare, AWS and Azure. As a Hybrid Cloud Engineer, you will leverage the latest technologies to provide a platform for internal consumption by various HL teams to provide a customer centric solution.

The Hybrid Cloud Engineer role offers a great opportunity to come in with your experience, views and ideas as the team strives for continuous improvement, keeping our systems secure and delivering projects. You will be managing the existing on-premise infrastructure estate, assisting with the migration of services to AWS and ultimately managing the AWS platform. HL offers great exposure to learning new technologies as they are released and deploying them in pilot environments, and delivering them to all colleagues.

What you\xe2\x80\x99ll be doing

Work collaboratively to deliver projects in a timely and organised manner

Seek innovative solutions, improvements, enhancements, and automation wherever possible

Monitoring and management of AWS, VMware, Compute, Storage and Backup estates including participation in the on-call rota

Proactively troubleshoot complex issues

Driving, managing and operating processes to ensure performance, capacity and availability are managed effectively to exceed business objectives

Integrating our infrastructure management processes with DevSecOps technologies to bring robust automation to our infrastructure management

Occasional out of hours/ on call support work for updates, incidents and fixes is expected

Ensure that documentation is completed and kept up to date post project delivery to allow for BAU support

As an Engineer, within your SME technology remit, you will be responsible for:

Supporting Incident/ Major Incident and Problem Management

The ongoing management and optimisation of monitoring and alerting services

Creating and managing Technical IT documentation

About you

Demonstrable experience of on-premise infrastructure as well as knowledge of AWS migrations, deployments and management

Extensive experience working in an Enterprise environment supporting AWS (VPC, EC2, CloudWatch, EKS, RDS, S3, EBS) and VMware (ESXi, vCentre, vRealize Suite) technologies

Knowledge of supporting on-premise compute platforms (Lenovo, Dell), enterprise storage (NetApp/Dell) and backup solutions (Rubrik)

Management of system monitoring technologies (SolarWinds, Opsview, Nagios)

Experience working in a change control environment

Experience of managing risk

Solution focused mindset \xe2\x80\x93 with the ability to use own experience to develop innovative solutions and resolve complex issues

Accomplished in forging effective relationships at all levels, skilled at influencing, negotiating and managing challenging conversations with ease

Able to work in a team or alone and effectively collaborate to achieve common goals plus the ability to self-manage competing workloads and effectively prioritise to meet deadlines

Regularly looking to continually improve your own, and the wider team\xe2\x80\x99s performance, actively promoting change and continuous improvement

Exposure to Dell VxRail will be beneficial

Interview process

This will be two stage interview process, consisting of competency and behavioural based questions.

Working Schedule & Salary

We are looking for 2 Hybrid Cloud Engineers to join our team, based in Bristol head office, BS1 5HL. This role is permanent, full time, 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday. We offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to enable you the option of working from home and coming into the office.

Salary circa \xc2\xa350,000

Why Us?

Here at HL, we\xe2\x80\x99re the UK\xe2\x80\x99s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we\xe2\x80\x99ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We\'re steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What\'s on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus* & annual pay review
• 25 days* holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure time
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday per year at annual enrolment
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Sharesave scheme - have a real stake in HL\xe2\x80\x99s future
• Income Protection & Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patientcare
• Help@hand and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Gympass - gym memberships and wellbeing apps available
• Variety of travel to work schemes with free bike storage and shower facilities
• An inhouse barista serving subsidised coffee and snacks
• Join HL\xe2\x80\x99s sports, I&D networks and volunteering groups (two paid volunteering days per year)
• LifeWorks Discounts on services, restaurants and retailers

• dependant on role level

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don\'t tick every box. If you\'re excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we\'re looking for, please go ahead and apply. We\xe2\x80\x99d love to hear from you!

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis \xe2\x80\x93 please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.

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