Platform Engineer

Royal London Mutual Insurance Society; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mutual life and pensions company seeks a Platform Engineer to manage Azure DevOps and CI/CD platforms. This role includes responsibility for security, automation, and supporting development teams, with opportunities for innovation in cloud and infrastructure management. Candidates should possess strong Azure and scripting skills.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD is essential.
• Strong Windows/Linux experience required.
• PowerShell or other scripting expertise.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve Azure DevOps CI/CD Platform.
• Support product teams in developing and deploying solutions.
• Develop automation for platform service management.

Skills

Azure DevOps using Git

CI/CD

PowerShell

Windows

Linux

Terraform

Python

Job description

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh OR Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 17th June 2025

We are looking for a Platform Engineer to manage and improve our Azure DevOps CI/CD Platform. The team manages Azure DevOps Services and Server for Development Teams releasing to on-premises and Cloud (Azure) infrastructure, managing day-to-day operations, ensuring the platform remains secure and compliant, supporting teams through service request and incident processes, and providing enabling services and engineering accelerators.

The Platform engineer applies DevOps principles and practices to the management of the platform.

About the role

1. Help manage Royal London's Azure DevOps Platform ensuring it remains secure.
2. Support teams to develop and deploy their solutions as required, including enablement assignments working directly with Product Teams to develop, enhance or maintain their CI/CD Pipelines and Agent Images.
3. Design and deliver engineering accelerators required by Product Teams to maintain their Application Lifecycle Management.
4. Develop automation for all aspects of platform service management including patching, upgrades and changes.
5. Apply DevOps principles and tools, exploiting cloud, container, and infrastructure-as-code capabilities to help improve the automated provision, test, and operation of the platform technologies and services.
6. Contribute to the ongoing development and maturity of continuous deployment and continuous delivery services (CI/CD), implementing and improving pipelines, managing complexity, and ensuring integrity, security, and reliability of pipeline services.
7. Maintain and develop knowledge information, technical communities, documentation, and standards.
8. Create reusable, scalable, and maintainable modules for multiple development teams and environments, ensuring best practices are followed.
9. Identify risks and issues; champion effective and timely resolution with thorough Root Cause Analysis and impact assessment.
10. Integrate platforms with operational and configuration automation tooling and pipelines to continuously improve service reliability, security, and management.

About you

• Azure DevOps using Git, CI/CD is essential. Other pipeline and CI/CD tooling experience are desirable but not necessary.
• Terraform experience or other infrastructure as code tools are desirable.
• Azure Cloud experience is essential. Other cloud experience (e.g., AWS) is accepted.
• Strong Windows or Linux experience is required.
• Package Management experience.
• PowerShell or other scripting experience is essential.
• Desirable skills include Azure SQL Server, Microsoft .NET, Python.

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 is that we will work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable, and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values: Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.

We offer great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays, up to 14% employer matching pension scheme, and private medical insurance. See all our benefits here - Our Benefits

Inclusion, diversity, and belonging

We're an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures. Our diverse perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognized and respected.