Platform Engineer

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation. Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers. Job Purpose We are looking for a Platform Engineer with hands-on Azure, Databricks, and IaC experience, to support our transformation and the future growth of the Canada Life UK business.

We are on a journey of simplifying our IT estate, removing our legacy systems and delivering innovative solutions through Cloud adoption, AI and expanding our digital services. As a member of the CLUK Product Engineering team, you will be involved in every stage of the product lifecycle from conception, design, implementation, testing, through to operational support. With automation at the heart of everything we are doing, you should have a strong hands-on understanding of CI/CD tools, to build secure and reliable applications.

We are looking for Azure experience, though strong experience in any cloud is welcome. This role would suit someone with a background in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, Dev Ops, or enterprise data platform support, particularly where Azure, Databricks, Azure Data Factory automation (or equivalent technology), and operational governance are central to the work. This is not a narrow support role or a generic cloud engineering position.

The engineer will work across the practical foundations of an enterprise data platform, helping ensure it remains secure, scalable, supportable, well governed, and easy for delivery teams to use. Key responsibilities Design, implement, and maintain applications in Cloud and On-prem, through CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Bicep Develop automation scripts for deployment and maintenance of applications Monitor system performance and health;

identify opportunities for optimization Ensure compliance with all security policies and standards Ensure platform components are reliable, maintainable, and safe to promote into production Investigate platform issues, security findings, and technical debt items, then drive them to resolution Participate in technical discussions and provide recommendations for improvements Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, standards, and implementation guidance Helping onboard users, teams, services, and workloads onto the platform.

Provide guidance to less experienced Product Engineering team members to help them learn and develop their own skills Essential skills needed Application support within a Financial Services context (SaaS, PaaS, Cloud, On-Prem hosted applications) Relevant experience as a Platform or Dev Ops Engineer working with enterprise data platforms Highly proficient in scripting languages like Powershell, Python, Bash. Strong experience in provisioning and modifying resources hosted in a cloud-based environment using infrastructure as code techniques e.g. Azure/AWS/GCP and related services Experience supporting Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory or a similar technology to govern an enterprise data platform Demonstrates following sound engineering practices, especially utilising automation tools, working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure Dev Ops, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins or Git Hub Actions (or similar)

Experience with secrets management, secure configuration, and security remediation practices Used to working within Agile frameworks and can coach others to do the same Good understanding of firewalls, private cloud connectivity, DNS, routing, and service integration patterns Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills Effective communication and enjoys collaboration with cross-functional teams Ability to work both independently and in a team environment Desirable skills

Experience of migrating on-premises infrastructure to the cloud and understanding the challenges involved Familiarity with cloud security best practices, identity and access management…