Azure Platform Engineer — Databricks & IaC Expert

Irish Life Group Services Limited; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Canada Life UK is seeking a Platform Engineer to help transform our IT estate with cloud-first strategies. You will contribute across conception, design, implementation, testing, and operations for an enterprise data platform.

The role emphasizes automation, secure deployments, and scalable, well-governed services. We value hands-on Azure expertise, Databricks experience, and strong scripting skills, with collaboration across cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities in a

Qualifications

• Experience in Platform/DevOps engineering for enterprise data platforms.
• Hands-on Azure, Databricks, and IaC with CI/CD tooling.
• Strong scripting in PowerShell, Python, or Bash.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud and on‑prem applications with CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop automation scripts for deployment and maintenance.
• Monitor performance, ensure security compliance, and improve reliability.
• Provide guidance and documentation to teams.

Skills

Azure

Databricks

IaC

CI/CD

Scripting

Cloud platforms

Security/compliance

Agile

Networking concepts

Team collaboration

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

Job description

Canada Life UK is seeking a Platform Engineer to help transform our IT estate with cloud-first strategies. You will contribute across conception, design, implementation, testing, and operations for an enterprise data platform.

The role emphasizes automation, secure deployments, and scalable, well-governed services. We value hands-on Azure expertise, Databricks experience, and strong scripting skills, with collaboration across cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities in a