Platform Engineer

Canada Life; West of England; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous pension

Bonus scheme

Private medical insurance

Life assurance

Job summary

Canada Life UK is seeking a Platform Engineer to support the transformation of our IT estate, focusing on Azure, Databricks, and automation. You will design and maintain cloud and on-prem solutions, leveraging CI/CD pipelines and IaC to deliver secure, scalable applications across the enterprise.

The role requires experience with enterprise data platforms, scripting, and cloud governance, with a focus on automation, security, and collaboration in Agile teams.

Qualifications

• Experience in Platform/DevOps roles with enterprise data platforms.
• Scripting experience: PowerShell, Python, Bash.
• Proficient in infrastructure as code using Azure/AWS/GCP; IaC tools like Terraform/Bicep.
• Experience with Azure Databricks or Azure Data Factory governance.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain cloud and on-prem apps via CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop automation scripts for deployment and maintenance.
• Monitor performance and optimize system health.
• Ensure compliance with security policies and standards.
• Onboard teams, services, and workloads onto the platform.

Skills

Azure Databricks

CI/CD pipelines

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Python

Azure

Cloud governance

Tools

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Octopus Deploy

Job description

Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.

Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues.

Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers.

Job Purpose

We are looking for a Platform Engineer with hands‑on Azure, Databricks, and IaC experience, to support our transformation and the future growth of the Canada Life UK business. We are on a journey of simplifying our IT estate, removing our legacy systems and delivering innovative solutions through Cloud adoption, AI and expanding our digital services.

As a member of the CLUK Product Engineering team, you will be involved in every stage of the product lifecycle from conception, design, implementation, testing, through to operational support.

With automation at the heart of everything we are doing, you should have a strong hands‑on understanding of CI/CD tools, to build secure and reliable applications.
We are looking for Azure experience, though strong experience in any cloud is welcome.

This role would suit someone with a background in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or enterprise data platform support, particularly where Azure, Databricks, Azure Data Factory automation (or equivalent technology), and operational governance are central to the work.

This is not a narrow support role or a generic cloud engineering position. The engineer will work across the practical foundations of an enterprise data platform, helping ensure it remains secure, scalable, supportable, well governed, and easy for delivery teams to use.

Key responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain applications in Cloud and On-prem, through CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Bicep

Develop automation scripts for deployment and maintenance of applications

Monitor system performance and health; identify opportunities for optimization

Ensure compliance with all security policies and standards

Ensure platform components are reliable, maintainable, and safe to promote into production

Investigate platform issues, security findings, and technical debt items, then drive them to resolution

Participate in technical discussions and provide recommendations for improvements

Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, standards, and implementation guidance

Helping onboard users, teams, services, and workloads onto the platform.

Provide guidance to less experienced Product Engineering team members to help them learn and develop their own skills

Essential skills needed

Application support within a Financial Services context (SaaS, PaaS, Cloud, On-Prem hosted applications)

Relevant experience as a Platform or DevOps Engineer working with enterprise data platforms

Highly proficient in scripting languages like Powershell, Python, Bash.

Strong experience in provisioning and modifying resources hosted in a cloud-based environment using infrastructure as code techniques e.g. Azure/AWS/GCP and related services

Experience supporting Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory or a similar technology to govern an enterprise data platform

Demonstrates following sound engineering practices, especially utilising automation tools, working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins or GitHub Actions (or similar)

Experience with secrets management, secure configuration, and security remediation practices

Used to working within Agile frameworks and can coach others to do the same

Good understanding of firewalls, private cloud connectivity, DNS, routing, and service integration patterns

Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills

Effective communication and enjoys collaboration with cross-functional teams

Ability to work both independently and in a team environment

• Experience of migrating on-premises infrastructure to the cloud and understanding the challenges involved
• Familiarity with cloud security best practices, identity and access management (IAM), and encryption techniques
• Microsoft Azure certifications are a plus
• Experience working in regulated or security-conscious enterprise environments
• Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Datadog or similar platforms

Benefits of working at Canada Life

We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that’s regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.

How we work at Canada Life

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward.

We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That’s why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop.

Diversity and inclusion

Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

“At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.” Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.

Location Bristol, England, United Kingdom