Senior DevOps Engineer

This is an outstanding opportunity to work in a team delivering regulatory and technology change!

We're seeking curious engineers to work within our feature teams. You will support customers by ensuring the products we deliver are fit for purpose and meet the quality and standards expected.

We're looking for someone who wants to further develop their engineering skillset. We'll support you to be able to be able to take on technical challenges and develop your understanding of how data solutions and services are developed, tested and implemented. If this excites you then you would be an asset to our team!

We are pioneering the transformation of current processes from our on-premises platforms and have started our journey in deploying solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. This role sits within our platforms Analytics Lab who are looking to create strategic data products and build data and analytics capability.

We work using agile delivery practices, so a self-led individual capable of accurately estimating and planning their own work would be valued highly.

What You'd Get Involved With:

1. Data Platform Operations

Operate and support GCP-based data platforms, particularly BigQuery environments

Monitor platform performance, availability, and cost efficiency

Ensure high availability and resilience of data systems

2. Pipeline Reliability & Support

Maintain and support ETL/ELT pipelines using Composer (Airflow) and dbt

Ensure data quality, completeness, and timeliness across pipelines

Implement proactive monitoring and alerting for pipeline failures

3. Incident & Problem Management

Lead investigation and resolution of production data incidents

Perform root cause analysis and implement preventative fixes

Participate in on-call rotations for critical systems

4. Cloud & Infrastructure Engineering

Manage infrastructure using Terraform on GCP

Support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Harness

Work with Pub/Sub for event-driven data processing

5. Data Governance & Compliance

Ensure adherence to regulatory and internal data governance policies

Implement data lineage, auditing, and access controls

Collaborate with risk, security, and compliance teams

6. Collaboration & Leadership

Mentor junior engineers and promote best practices

Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and platform teams

Contribute to architectural decisions and platform enhancements

There is no requirement to have experience with every technology listed, and we would be happy to provide any development opportunities.

Technical Skills

Strong SQL expertise and experience working with BigQuery

Hands-on experience with GCP services (BigQuery, Composer, Pub/Sub)

Proficiency in Python and/or Java

Experience with dbt for transformation workflows

Familiarity with scheduling tools such as Tivoli

DevOps & Infrastructure

Experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Harness)

Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Version control using Git

Operational Expertise

Experience in data operations, production support, or SRE environments

Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills

Monitoring and alerting implementation experience

Domain Knowledge (Preferred)

Experience in financial services or regulated environments

Understanding of data governance, risk, and compliance frameworks

Desirable skills include:

Strong focus on reliability, automation, and scalability

Experience operating mission-critical data platforms

Ability to bridge engineering and operational support

Proactive mindset toward improving systems and processes

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity, or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it's why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We're disability confident. So, if you'd like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping.
• 30 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that's interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.

We're on an exciting journey to transform our Group and the way we're shaping finance for good. We're focusing on the future, investing in our technologies, workplaces, and colleagues to make our Group a great place for everyone. Including you! About this opportunity The Group is at a pivotal stage in delivering against its strategy; becoming increasingly proactive, nimble, and efficient is key to ensuring we make good decisions to maintain what differentiates us in the market. The Risk strategy, enabled by the Prudential & Analytics Platform, is key to creating this shift for the Group. We're passionate about building a collaborative, empowered, inclusive and successful team who can connect with this purpose and deliver for our customers. Prudential & Analytics (P&A) is on an exciting journey and there is no better a time to join us. The investments we are making in our people, data, and technology are leading to innovative projects; fresh possibilities have provided new ways for our people to work, learn and thrive.