Platform Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading insurance company is seeking a Platform Engineer to manage and enhance their Azure DevOps CI/CD platform. The successful candidate will work in a hybrid environment, supporting development teams by ensuring platform security and compliance, developing automation solutions, and contributing to the continuous improvement of CI/CD processes. Strong experience in Azure, CI/CD tools, and scripting is essential for success in this role.

Benefits

28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Up to 14% employer matching pension scheme

Private medical insurance

Qualifications

• Azure DevOps experience is essential, with CI/CD focus.
• Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tools is desirable.
• Strong experience in Azure Cloud or other cloud environments.
• Proficient in Windows or Linux administration.
• Scripting skills, particularly in PowerShell or similar languages, are essential.

Responsibilities

• Manage and improve the Azure DevOps CI/CD Platform.
• Support and enable Product Teams in CI/CD development and deployment.
• Ensure platform security and compliance.
• Develop automation for platform service management.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipeline development and integrity.

Skills

Azure DevOps using Git

CI/CD tooling

Terraform

Azure Cloud

Windows experience

Linux experience

Package Management

PowerShell

Azure SQL server

Microsoft .NET

Python

Job description

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Edinburgh OR Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 22nd 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

• Help manage Royal London's Azure DevOps Platform ensuring it remains secure.
• 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.
• Design and deliver engineering accelerators required by Product Teams to maintain their Application Lifecycle Management.
• Develop automation for all aspects of platform service management including patching, upgrades and changes.
• Applying 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 in your area.
• Contributes 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.
• Contribute to the ongoing maintenance and management of knowledge information, technical communities, documentation, and standards.
• Create reusable modules, which are scalable and easily maintainable for multiple development teams and multiple environments. Ensuring best practice is considered and implemented.
• Identifies risks and issues; champions effective and timely resolution with thorough Root Cause Analysis performed and impacts fully understood.
• 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 a must. Other pipeline and CI/CD tooling experience are desirable but not necessary.
• Terraform experience or other infrastructure as code tools that align to the platform are desirable.
• Azure Cloud experience is essential. Other cloud experience (e.g. AWS) is accepted.
• Strong Windows experience or strong Linux experience.
• 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 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.