Senior Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 10th December 2024

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to manage and improve our Azure Cloud services. The team manages the Cloud platform (Azure) supporting all teams working on Azure-based solutions, managing day-to-day operations, ensuring the platform remains secure and compliant, supporting teams through service request and incident processes, and providing enabling services and engineering accelerators.

The Senior Platform engineer applies DevOps principles and practices to the management of the platform.

About the role

• Help manage Royal London’s Azure tenant – ensuring it remains highly available and secure.
• Support teams working in the Azure to develop and deploy their solutions as required, including enablement assignments working directly with Product Teams to develop, enhance or maintain their solutions.
• Design and deliver technical solutions and processes for the Cloud Platform’s own tooling, and engineering accelerators used by Product Teams.
• Develop automation for all aspects of platform service management including patching, upgrades and changes.
• Applying DevOps principles and tools, 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.
• Contributes and leads the ongoing development and maturity of continuous deployment and continuous delivery services (CI/CD), implementing and improving pipelines, managing complexity, and ensuring integrity, security, and reliability of pipeline services.
• Contribute to the ongoing maintenance and management of knowledge information, technical communities, documentation, and standards.
• Create reusable modules, that is scalable and easily maintainable for multiple development teams and multiple environments. Ensuring best practice is considered and implemented.
• Identifies risks and issues; champions effective and timely resolution with thorough Root Cause Analysis performed and impacts fully understood.
• Integrate platforms with operational and configuration automation tooling, pipelines, and playbooks to continuously improve service reliability, security, and management.

About you

• Terraform experience or other infrastructure as code tools that align to the platform is a must.
• Azure Cloud experience is essential. Other cloud experience (e.g. AWS) is accepted.
• Strong Windows experience or strong Linux experience.
• Reliable networking experience.
• Azure DevOps using Git, CI/CD. Or other pipeline and CI/CD tooling.
• Package management experience.
• PowerShell or other scripting experience is essential.
• Desirable skills include Bicep, Data Factory / Function Apps, Azure SQL server, Microsoft .NET, Python.

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.