Senior Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent  

Location: Alderley Edge / Edinburgh      

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based 

We’re hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Cloud Engineering team.

You will help support and enhance our Microsoft Azure Cloud infrastructure using IaC (Infrastructure as Code) principles, automation, and tools. You will work closely with product teams running workloads in Azure, helping them adopt best practice to ensure their services are deployed in a robust, resilient and cost effective fashion.

Core Engineering provides shared platforms, services, standards, and key capabilities that allow product and delivery teams to build, run, and scale software safely, quickly, and consistently. 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.

We’re hiring for potential as well as experience. If you think you could thrive in this role, we’d love to hear from you, even if you don’t meet every requirement on paper.

About the role 

• Support the day to day running of our Azure platform, ensuring deployed services are resilient, compliant, and secure


• Respond to incidents and requests, ensuring we manage our services within SLA


• Deploy new Azure services and infrastructure via CICD pipelines, in a resilient, cost-effective fashion

• Ensure IaC and automation is used to manage all aspects of our infrastructure, especially the use of Terraform and ADO/Git CICD tooling


• Use IaC to develop reliable and consistent terraform tooling (modules) for reuse


• Work with product teams to help deploy and maintain the application services, including their code, pipelines and tests

About you 

• Azure Cloud: Experience working in Azure cloud with solid understanding of:
  
  
  
  • Virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, firewalls, and Azure policy.
  
  
  • Azure cloud resources such as Data factory, Azure Function Apps, Web Apps, Azure SQL, API Management, Event Grid and Virtual Machines.
  
  
  • Cloud images creation using Packer or similar tools.
  
  
  • Infrastructure redundancy, scalability, and cost optimization.
  
  
  
  

• Hands on experience with Cloud and On-premises networking with the ability to troubleshoot connectivity and security issues


• Exposure to, and an understanding of, TLS, mTLS, PKI infrastructure and how it plays a role in modern infrastructure.

• Terraform: Solid experience in Terraform; able to create reusable modules, which are scalable and easily maintainable. The ability to create CICD pipelines to deploy resources using TF is key to enable multiple development teams and multiple environments. The team is responsible for ensuring best practice is considered and implemented.

• Azure DevOps: Experience of using Git source control, CI/CD processes, YAML builds, Azure cloud scale set build servers.

• Unit Testing: Experience in Pester or similar infrastructure cloud unit testing.

• Monitoring: Experience of infrastructure monitoring and alert management.

• Scripting: Ability to produce script-based automations using a language such as PowerShell or 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.