Engineering Lead - GTO Engineering

Royal London; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent UK financial services organization is seeking a Platform Engineering Lead to guide their DevOps team. In this role, you will enhance Azure cloud infrastructure and implement best practices using Terraform. Ideal candidates will have strong expertise in Azure, a knack for mentoring, and experience with CI/CD processes. The position offers a hybrid working model with locations in Alderley Park or Edinburgh.

Qualifications

• Good experience in Terraform for creating reusable modules.
• Experience in Azure cloud with various resources and policies.
• Understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of DevOps Engineers to manage Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Create and manage Terraform modules.
• Provide training and mentoring to junior developers.
• Drive continuous improvement in service reliability.

Skills

Terraform expertise

Azure Cloud understanding

CI/CD processes

Infrastructure monitoring

Troubleshooting skills

Tools

Azure DevOps

Packer

Git

Terraform

Python

Job description

Job Title: Platform Engineering Lead

Company: Royal London Group

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 setup, 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 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.
• Bicep or Terraform.
• Data Factory / Function Apps.
• Python or other scripting language such as Powershell, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) or Docker.

Royal London is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive.