Engineering Lead

Royal London Group; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual life and pensions company in the UK is seeking an Engineering Lead to guide their DevOps team in managing Azure cloud infrastructure. This role involves creating Terraform modules, ensuring best practices, providing training, and addressing complex technical challenges. Ideal candidates will have strong experience with Azure and Terraform, and a passion for mentoring others. The position offers a hybrid working model and great workplace benefits.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Good experience creating reusable modules for Terraform.
• Experience with Azure Cloud, including virtual networks and resources.
• Experience with Git source control and CI/CD processes.
• Strong skills in troubleshooting Azure resources.
• Experience in Pester or similar infrastructure unit testing.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of DevOps Engineers to manage cloud infrastructure.
• Create reusable, scalable Terraform modules.
• Ensure best practices for cloud infrastructure are followed.
• Provide training and support for less experienced teams.
• Help drive improvements in software quality and service management.
• Participate in decision making and team meetings.

Skills

Terraform

Azure Cloud

Azure DevOps

Unit Testing

Monitoring

Troubleshooting

Agile/Scrum

Training / Mentoring

Tools

Azure

Git

Packer

Docker

Job description

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park or Edinburgh

Working Style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing Date: 21st October 2025

Overview

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Platform Engineering Lead to join our Group Technology and Operations Team at Royal London. The purpose of this role is to lead a team of DevOps Engineers to set up, manage Azure cloud infrastructure for the delivery teams. Ensuring best practices are adhered to; use techniques such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), unit testing, CI/CD and code reviews. Provide training and support to teams who have less Azure cloud experience. Help troubleshoot complex issues around networking, databases, storage, serverless components and cloud VMs.

About the role

• Creating reusable, scalable, and robust Terraform modules
• Running unit tests against newly created infrastructure
• Produce consistent and reliable infrastructure for all environments
• Accurate and efficient tracking of changes through environments
• Work closely with DevOps Engineering, Development and App Support teams
• Work closely with Group team including Cloud Ops and networking
• Working flexibly and effectively across teams ensuring that team and business objectives are met
• Contributing to team meetings and participating in decision making
• Identifies risks and issues; champions effective and timely resolution with thorough Root Cause Analysis performed and impacts fully understood
• Manage technical/process improvements
• Help drive the evolving improvement of software quality and resiliency by automating steps in the value-chain
• Integrate platforms with operational and configuration automation tooling, pipelines, and playbooks to continuously improve service reliability, security, and management
• Help drive the continuous improvement in change and service reliability through continuous measurement, monitoring, and operational automation improvements

About you

• Terraform: Good experience creating reusable modules, scalable and maintainable for multiple teams and environments; ensuring best practices are considered and implemented
• Azure Cloud: Experience and understanding of virtual networks, subnets, NSGs, firewalls, Azure policy. Knowledge of resources such as Data Factory, Azure Function Apps, Web Apps, Azure SQL, API Management, Event Grid and Virtual Machines. Experience creating cloud images using Packer or similar. Understanding of infrastructure redundancy, scalability, and cost optimization
• Azure DevOps: Experience with Git source control, CI/CD processes, YAML builds, Azure cloud scale set build servers
• Unit Testing: Experience in Pester or similar infrastructure unit testing
• Monitoring: Experience in infrastructure monitoring and alert management
• Visionary: Able to see strategic long‑term Platform build out and manage RLG modernization initiatives
• Training / Mentoring: Ability to train and mentor junior devs, provide best practices
• Troubleshooting: Strong skills around Azure networking, storage, databases, security, cloud resources
• Agile/Scrum: Experience working in Scrum methodology delivering work in regular sprints

Desirable Experience

• Bicep or Terraform
• Data Factory / Function Apps
• Azure SQL server experience
• Microsoft .NET technologies – ETL, SSIS, SQL Server, C#, API, Microservice, Java, Python or other scripting language such as PowerShell
• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Docker
• Pester experience
• Linux skills

About Royal London

We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long‑term savings and asset management products and services.

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We’ve always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

If you think you would be a great fit for our team at Royal London but don’t meet all the requirements of the role, your application will still be considered.