Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 4th December 

We are looking for a Platform Engineer who will support specialist services provided by a set of software platforms and tools, while working on the design, implementation, integration and ongoing management of the core platforms and tools in their area.

A Platform engineer will apply DevOps principles and practices to the management and nature of their own products and services with the objective of a “platform as a service” model.

About the role

• Deliver technical solutions and processes for existing or new platform tooling.
• Develop automation for all aspects of platform service management including patching, upgrades, changes, applying DevOps principles and toolchain, exploiting cloud, container, and infrastructure-as-code capabilities to help improve the automated provision, test, and operation of the platform technologies and services in your area.
• Support service operations, patching and upgrades as required, helping ensure platforms are maintained within service levels and currency appetite.
• Identify, respond to, investigate, and resolve incidents and problems that impact service operation.
• Define and maintain standards and security controls of platform technologies and services in your area, ensuring these are implemented and monitored appropriately.
• Contribute to the ongoing development and maturity of the platforms and tools, managing complexity, and ensuring integrity, security, and reliability of services.
• Contribute to the ongoing maintenance and management of knowledge information, technical communities, documentation, and standards related to the platform technologies and services in your area.

About you

• Additional Cloud Platform skills are preferred.
• Experience in creating yaml pipelines (not necessarily Cloud focused)
• Scripting experience in a language like PowerShell, Python
• Experience of terraform or other IaC (infrastructure as code)
• Good understanding of networking and related protocols

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, an 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.