Digital Platform Engineer

Team – Platform Engineering

Working Pattern - Hybrid – 2 days per week in the Vitality Bournemouth or London Office. Full-time hours per week.

We are happy to discuss flexible working!

• Proven multi-cloud engineering
• Advanced infrastructure automation expertise
• Strong operational problem solving

We’re looking for a Digital Platforms Engineer to build, support and continuously improve the infrastructure powering Vitality’s digital applications. You’ll work across cloud, on‑premise and Dev Ops technologies, driving automation, resilience and scalability while playing a key role in platform upgrades and re‑platforming initiatives.

• Design, build and support resilient infrastructure and platform services across AWS, GCP and wider digital environments, ensuring they meet the availability, scalability and operational needs of enterprise applications
• Automate the provisioning, configuration and management of infrastructure using Terraform, Ansible and Infrastructure as Code practices to improve consistency, repeatability and deployment speed
• Provide day‑to‑day engineering support across development, test and production environments, balancing planned sprint commitments with incidents, service requests and wider operational priorities
• Investigate and resolve complex platform and infrastructure issues involving Windows and Linux servers, databases, application servers, server scripting and supporting cloud services
• Maintain and improve the Dev Ops toolchain, including access management, platform upgrades, deployment tooling, monitoring capabilities and CI/CD services used by technical teams
• Manage essential platform components including certificates, API gateways, routing and reverse proxy configurations to maintain secure and reliable communication between applications and services
• Coordinate server and application patching across the digital environment, ensuring technologies remain secure, supported and aligned with cloud and infrastructure best practices
• Work collaboratively with application development, network and infrastructure teams, alongside third‑party service providers, to deliver platform changes and resolve cross‑functional technical challenges
• Identify opportunities to automate manual activities, strengthen existing processes and contribute practical technical insight to the future direction and roadmap of platform technologies

• Proven experience building, supporting and troubleshooting highly available enterprise infrastructure and platforms
• Hands‑on experience with AWS, GCP or other major cloud platforms, alongside Windows and Linux environments
• Strong experience with Terraform, Ansible or similar Infrastructure as Code and automation tools
• Good understanding of scalable and resilient engineering practices, including auto‑scaling, automated failover and deployment strategies
• Experience supporting Dev Ops tool chains and CI/CD, with exposure to container technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong communication, collaboration and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to work across technical teams, third‑party providers and changing operational priorities

• Bonus Schemes – A bonus that regularly rewards you for your performance
• A pension of up to 12%– We will match your contributions up to 6% of your salary
• Our award‑winning Vitality health insurance – With its own set of rewards and benefits
• Life Assurance – Four times annual salary

These are just some of the many perks that we offer! To view the extensive range of benefits we offer, please visit our careers page.
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