Engineering Lead

Royal London; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK financial institution is looking for an Engineering Lead to join their Group Technology and Operations Team. This role involves leading a team of DevOps Engineers focused on managing Azure cloud infrastructure. Responsibilities include creating reusable Terraform modules, troubleshooting complex issues, and ensuring best practices in cloud management. The position offers a hybrid working model, allowing for flexibility between home and office while providing supportive training and development opportunities for team members.

Benefits

28 days annual leave

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Good experience in Terraform; able to create reusable modules.
• Experience with Azure cloud, understanding of networking and resources.
• Experience using Git and CI / CD processes.

Responsibilities

• Leading a team to setup Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Creating reusable, scalable Terraform modules.
• Managing technical/process improvements and troubleshooting.

Skills

Terraform

Azure Cloud

Azure DevOps

Unit Testing

Monitoring

Agile / Scrum

Tools

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)

Docker

Packer

Job description

Job Title: Engineering Lead

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park or Edinburgh

Working Style: Hybrid 50% home / office based

Closing Date: 28th Nov 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 setup manage Azure cloud infrastructure for the delivery teams. Ensuring best practices are adhere 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 software 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 in Terraform; able to create reusable modules that is scalable and easily maintainable for multiple development teams and multiple environments. Ensuring best practice is considered and implemented.
• Azure Cloud : Experience in Azure cloud good understanding of virtual networks subnets NSGs firewalls and Azure policy. Good understanding of Azure cloud resources such as Data factory Azure Function Apps Web Apps Azure SQL API Management Event Grid and Virtual Machines. Experience of creating cloud images using Packer or similar tools. Good understanding of infrastructure redundancy scalability and cost optimization.
• Azure DevOps : Experience of using Git source control CI / CD processes YAML builds Azure cloud scale set build servers.
• Unit Testing : Experience in Pester or similar infrastructure cloud unit testing.
• Monitoring : Experience of infrastructure monitoring and alert management.
• Visionary : Able to see strategic long-term Platform build out and how we can manage to propel RLG modernization initiatives.
• Training : Able to provide training to other DevOps engineers development teams and production support teams. Provide knowledge and experience on best ways to approach complex implementations.
• Mentoring : Able to mentor junior developers on best software engineering practices.
• Trouble shooting : Strong trouble shooting skills around Azure networking storage databases security and cloud resources.
• Agile / Scrum : Experience working in a Scrum methodology delivering work in regular Sprints.

Desirable Experience

• Bicep or Terraform
• Data Factory / Function Apps
• Azure SQL server experience
• 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

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 please get in touch as your application will still be considered.

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. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion diversity and belonging

We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected whatever their background.

Key Skills

Administrative Skills,Facilities Management,Biotechnology,Creative Production,Design And Estimation,Architecture

Employment Type: Full Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1