Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Permanent

Location:

Edinburgh (We believe in the power of in-person collaboration, and our hybrid model requires colleagues to be in the office a minimum of 40% of their time)

Expected starting salary: £58,480 - £87,720 (depending on the experience you can bring)

Closing date: 24th February 2026

Enterprise Technology (formerly Global Technology Services) is a global organisation within Transamerica. We provide dedicated support to Transamerica and we bring all of Aegon's business units together through the use of technology. We provide the backbone - the infrastructure - for how everything works. We’re creating the company’s AI environment, building a flexible ‘cloud experience’ for internal hosting services, designing frameworks for data governance and management, and ensuring the security and stability of the company’s technology.

In short, we enable the business units to move more quickly and deliver to our clients in the best possible way. Whether customers are interested in insurance products or annuities or financial services, we're here to ensure they don't have to worry whether their information is safe.

The people we employ are incredibly diverse, both in terms of backgrounds and skill sets. There are over 1,000 of us representing a dozen or so nationalities and located in the UK, the US, the Netherlands, and Hungary, Spain, and Hong Kong. Our global teams are comprised of experts in the areas such as application development, information security, infrastructure services, data & analytics, risk & controls, procurement, program management, and architecture.

With the breadth of functions within Enterprise Technology, individuals can pursue a wide variety of careers, and we have a focus on supporting employees’ development. In particular, our Talent Marketplace enables colleagues to take on gigs to broaden their experience and try out different responsibilities, which can be extremely rewarding.

The most important quality in the people who join us is curiosity. A lot of what we do is problem solving, requiring colleagues to take what they know and apply it to new situations. We have many mature processes, but we’re always looking for opportunities to improve, so we want people who are naturally inquisitive and confident enough to challenge the way we do things.

Technology is constantly, rapidly changing – we need you to help us continue to change with it.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will help to design, build, and maintain software platforms. Working in an Agile manner, you will be responsible for configuring and customising the platform to meet the organisation's needs, developing and maintaining applications, workflows, and integrations, and ensuring the platform's stability, security, and performance. Additionally, you will collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, build out solution designs, and ensure the scalability and efficiency of platform architectures.

This role involves automating tasks to improve efficiency and troubleshooting technical issues to ensure successful implementation and utilisation of the platform. Your efforts will enable the organisation to streamline processes, improve service delivery, and enhance overall productivity.

• Develop monitoring solutions in support of IT operations systems, infrastructure, and applications;
  Cloud and On-premises.
• Business and technical analysis and architectural review with customers.
• Maintain and improve continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes and pipelines.
• Enable systems with automated monitoring and alerting.
• Developing ingest pipelines, visualisations, and dashboard capabilities for structured and unstructured data.
• Develop triggered alert functionality to show on-screen alerts and send events to ITSM and Event Management Platforms.
• Execute day-to-day Request and Incident ticket work as necessary.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements, build solution designs, and ensure scalability, resiliency, and efficiency of platform architectures.
• Create system guidelines, process documentation, and training materials for the organisation.
• Understand and…