Platform Engineer

CFC; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Platform Engineer, where your expertise in Azure and DevOps will drive innovation. You'll be pivotal in enhancing our cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, and optimizing the software development lifecycle. Collaborate with a dedicated team to create automated solutions that empower development teams and improve product delivery. This role offers a dynamic environment where passion and creativity are encouraged, making it an exciting opportunity to shape the future of technology in the insurance sector.

Qualifications

• Experience with Azure and SDLC best practices.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code and automation tools.

Responsibilities

• Build tools for Azure cloud infrastructure to enhance developer experience.
• Define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work.

Skills

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Command-line scripting

DevOps concepts

YAML pipelines

Tools

Azure CLI

Bash

PowerShell

Job description

Platform Engineer

Department: DevOps & Infrastructure

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London

Reporting To: Keith Bartlett

Description

The role of Platform Engineer is wide-ranging, including infrastructure-centric aspects of Cloud Architecture and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), as well as optimizing the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using techniques such as Lean and BDD.

Key to driving our technology strategy forward, you will implement practices and approaches that enhance throughput and enable the business to test new products, pricing, and capabilities rapidly in the marketplace.

About the role

As a member of the Platform Development team, you will build tools that evolve our Azure cloud infrastructure in a safe, reliable, automated, and cost-effective manner, enabling our proprietary technology development teams to have the best possible development experience.

• Provide expertise and input into the design and implementation of LAC automation to serve the needs of our application hosting, with particular focus on consistency, security, and developer enablement.
• Participate in planning efforts with stakeholders and the IT department, working as part of a small team and managing your own tasks according to the larger needs of the business.
• Help define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work.
• In the event of failure, work on fixing issues and communicating with senior team members.

About you

The ideal candidate will:

• Have enterprise experience with Azure and an excellent understanding of SDLC best practices, Infrastructure as Code/Desired State Configuration—using tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Possess advanced experience with command-line scripting tools such as Azure CLI, Bash, and PowerShell.
• Have an understanding of DevOps-centric concepts and Azure Platform Engineering, particularly regarding automation and YAML pipelines.

Core Values

Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and make a difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers, and carriers.

Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way things are done and constantly challenge ourselves and others to improve.

Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, welcome all viewpoints, and treat everyone as we would like to be treated.