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Job Title: Platform Engineer (Developer Experience)

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Edge OR Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 13th March 2026

We're hiring a Platform Engineer to join our Developer Experience team — the group that empowers every engineer at Royal London to build, ship, and innovate faster.

You’ll help evolve our core development platforms, from GitHub and Azure DevOps to CI/CD agents, package repositories, Dev Boxes, and rollout and stewardship of GitHub Copilot. You’ll also play a key role as we expand into container platforms and creation of our Internal Developer Platform.

Developer Experience is part of Core Engineering, providing shared platforms, standards, and automation used across product teams. You will work across modern SaaS, cloud and platform technologies, helping teams design and deliver services that are secure, resilient, and observable by default. What you build will be used by dozens of teams across Royal London.

While our team owns a broad suite of developer‑centric technologies, we’re not looking for someone who already has expertise in all of them. We’re hiring for potential, so experience with some, plus a willingness to grow, is exactly what we’re after.

About the role

• Operate and improve our source control and CI/CD platforms (GitHub, Azure DevOps), including repo governance, reusable pipeline templates, and policy gates.
• Provision and optimise self‑hosted build agents/runners for performance, security, and cost.
• Run package management services and strengthen software supply‑chain practices.
• Evolve our Internal Developer Platform — golden paths and self‑service that remove toil.
• Lead the enterprise rollout, policy, onboarding, and enablement for GitHub Copilot.
• Help expand our container capabilities with secure, observable, paved‑road patterns.
• Drive automation and Infrastructure‑as‑Code across everything we manage; support incidents/requests to keep platforms reliable.

About you

Must Have

• Experience with GitHub/Azure DevOps and building robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of Git fundamentals and repo governance at scale; automation around PRs, branching, compliance checks.
• A bias for automation (IaC, scripting using a languages such as PowerShell or Python) and great collaboration skills.

Desirable Skills

• Know‑how in provisioning/tuning build agents or runners.
• Operating package/artefact services (e.g. Azure Artifacts, GitHub Packages, Artifactory) with a supply‑chain mindset.
• Practical exposure to developer tooling with a thorough knowledge of the Software Delivery Lifecycle, and an interest in responsible AI‑assisted development.
• Containers experience and an eagerness to work with Kubernetes on Azure.
• Experience building blocks for an Internal Developer Platform (golden paths, templates, portal).

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.   

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, and up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity and belonging 

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.