Platform Engineer

CFC; London; On-site; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative firm is seeking a skilled Platform Engineer to enhance their Azure cloud infrastructure. In this dynamic role, you'll optimize the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and implement automation practices that empower development teams. You'll work closely with stakeholders to ensure security and reliability while driving technology strategies forward. Join a passionate team that values creativity and collaboration, and help shape the future of cloud engineering in a fun and supportive environment. If you're ready to take on exciting challenges and make a real impact, this opportunity is for you.

Qualifications

• Enterprise experience of Azure and understanding of SDLC best practices required.
• Advanced experience with command line/scripting tools like Azure CLI and Bash.

Responsibilities

• Build tools to evolve Azure cloud infrastructure safely and reliably.
• Define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work.

Skills

Azure

SDLC best practices

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Ansible

Azure CLI

Bash

Powershell

DevOps concepts

YAML pipelines

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) through to optimizing the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using techniques such as Lean and BDD.

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

About the role

As a member of the Platform Development team, build the 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 in to 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 IT department, working as part of a small team and successfully manage your own tasks according to the larger needs of the business.
• Help define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work.
• On failure events, work on fixing the issues and communicating with senior members of the team.

About you

The ideal candidate for this role will:

• Have enterprise experience of Azure and excellent understanding of SDLC best practices, infrastructure as Code/Desired State Configuration – Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• An advanced level of experience using command line/scripting tools such as Azure CLI, Bash and Powershell.
• An understanding of DevOps centric concepts and Azure Platform Engineering particularly in relation to 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 makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.

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

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, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.