Systems Engineer

The role

What were looking for:

At Direct Line Group, we continue to unleash the power of technology to disrupt the insurance market and our Technology Services team is at the heart of this. Working to provide the kind of experience and services that wow our customers, we are delivering a set of ambitious plans to transform our technology for the future, evolving the systems, platforms and infrastructure that our people use day-to-day.

Will you help us revolutionise the digital experience? We are looking for Systems Engineers with a DevOps attitude and who are keen to join an organisation in constant change!

These are key roles sitting within our creative Green Flag Department, we have a start-up mentality and embrace the true scaled agile development processes. You will work as part of a Scrum team aimed at delivering tangible results fast.

Who youll be working with:

Green Flag are at the beginning of a very exciting digital transformation journey, which includes the re-platforming of their services. Delivered using SaFE throughout our sites in both Bromley and Leeds using complete serverless microservices architecture on AWS cloud!

Using leading development paradigm, we are fully committed to the development of our team members to build a spectacular working environment.

This is a career defining opportunity and a chance to be involved in the rescue industry, changing programme of work. As part of a wider technical team, you'll work with some of the best in the business. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow whilst helping us deliver a company-wide technology transformation project.

What youll be doing:

Systems Engineering (implementation) capability (Hosting infrastructure, Networking, Security Technologies and Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Engineering Tools, Analytics etc.).

Agile system engineering expertise (competent and capable).

Commercial use of AWS services, Cloud Formation, Load Balancer, Auto Scaling,

Working with CI/CD Pipelines using AWS Code Pipeline, Code Deploy, Jenkins, Lambda, Docker & Containerisation using AWS Fargate and Infrastructure as a Code

Integration of code quality and security tools in code pipelines to improve and identify security issues

Carry out system reviews to ensure accordance with architectural principles set out by and agreed within the team.

Work with third parties to resolve infrastructure issues in existence and proactively engage with vendors to ensure continued availability of systems for which the team is responsible.

Ensure that tasks which can be automated are automated to drive down cost and improve agility.

Hands-on experience with Bitbucket, GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Git

Develop code in Python, Bash scripting and familiarity with standard code libraries

What well give you:

Come join us and youll find yourself in the middle of one of the most on-the-go teams in the business, with autonomy and exposure to industry leaders on huge household brand names. We are always encouraging internal development and youll have access to loads of learning opportunities, events and conferences to build your industry knowledge.

Direct Line Group is moving into Agile ways of working. This comes with immense potential to learn, develop your skills as you initially see us through a very exciting time of change but also as we move into BAU. You will be valued and looked to for inspiration, with clear goals and autonomy as well as leadership focus being part of your daily role.