Azure Platform Engineer - CI/CD, Terraform & GitOps

Legal & General; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Legal & General is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Retail Platform Operations team in the UK. You will help design, build and operate central platform services using GitHub, Kubernetes, ArgoCD and CI/CD tooling, while driving infrastructure automation with Terraform in Azure.

You’ll mentor engineers, promote automation-first and self-service approaches, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, secure cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated hands-on expertise in Terraform for Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes (AKS preferred) within Azure cloud environments.
• Strong experience with GitHub, including GitHub Actions and workflow automation to support CI/CD practices.
• Solid understanding of containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and modern DevOps and GitOps practices, including tools such as ArgoCD.
• Proficiency in Linux systems and scripting (Bash/Shell), with working knowledge of Python considered advantageous.
• Good understanding of networking fundamentals, including routing, load balancing and cloud security principles.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana) and exposure to API-driven automation or configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible).
• Proven track record (5+ years) in DevOps, Platform or Cloud Engineering roles, contributing to shared platforms and working across cross-functional teams.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to mentor engineers, promote automation-first and self-service approaches, and drive continuous improvement in Agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Designing, building and operating central platform services including GitHub, Kubernetes, ArgoCD and CI/CD tooling.
• Driving infrastructure automation using Terraform to deliver scalable, secure and consistent cloud environments.
• Supporting application teams with onboarding to shared platform services through guidance, enablement and hands-on collaboration.
• Developing reusable GitHub Actions, automation frameworks and CI/CD workflows to improve engineering efficiency.
• Managing and enhancing Kubernetes-based platforms to maintain performance, resilience and scalability.
• Promoting GitOps practices and automated deployment strategies to improve software delivery.
• Troubleshooting complex platform, infrastructure and networking issues using logs, monitoring tools and system diagnostics.
• Mentoring engineers, sharing best practice and contributing to a culture of continuous improvement and technical excellence.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitHub Actions

Linux scripting

Networking fundamentals

Observability

GitOps practices

Cloud security

Python

Collaboration

Tools

Azure

AKS

Docker

Terraform Enterprise

Job description

Legal & General is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Retail Platform Operations team in the UK. You will help design, build and operate central platform services using GitHub, Kubernetes, ArgoCD and CI/CD tooling, while driving infrastructure automation with Terraform in Azure.

You’ll mentor engineers, promote automation-first and self-service approaches, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver scalable, secure cloud environments.