Platform engineer in cloud infrastructure

Pacific Life; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days of annual leave with option to

Adoption and fertility leave

Generous enhanced parental leave

Comprehensive private insurance for员工与

Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x基本年

Job summary

Pacific Life is hiring a Platform Engineer to maintain, optimise and grow our cloud platform. You’ll lead initiatives across low-level cloud architecture, developer experience and tooling, SRE and cloud security in a high-impact, hands-on role.

You’ll operate large cloud systems, mentor engineers, and drive adoption of scalable patterns while ensuring reliability and fast time-to-production for product teams. This London-based hybrid role requires collaboration across regions and teams.

Qualifications

• You have deep experience operating Kubernetes workloads at scale and maintaining secure cloud environments.
• You advocate clear, maintainable IaC configurations that are safe to change.
• You balance best practices with practical, user-friendly platform design.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform initiatives from concept to production with timely delivery.
• Maintain a global, high-availability cloud platform spread across regions with on-call rotation.
• Champion CI/CD, SRE, networking and cloud security practices.
• Collaborate with teams to guide cloud architecture and usage of the platform.
• Mentor engineers to grow design thinking and operational capabilities.
• Research and adopt new tools/patterns to improve developer experience and velocity.

Skills

Kubernetes at scale

IaC configurations

CI/CD practices

SRE principles

Cloud security

Mentoring teammates

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

Terraform

GitOps

Job description

Описание:

We’re looking for a Platform Engineer to help us maintain, optimise and grow our cloud platform by driving and delivering initiatives covering low-level cloud architecture, developer experience and tooling, SRE and cloud security. This is a high-impact, hands‑on technical role where you’ll work within a team of talented platform & cloud engineers to improve scalability, reliability, developer experience and time‑to‑market for our product teams. You’ll combine your experience operating large systems in the cloud with a passion for developer experience and streamlining the road to production.

Задачи:

Lead complex platform initiatives from concept through to production, driving alignment, unblocking dependencies, and ensuring timely delivery of solid, reliable platform components that form the foundation of our products. Maintain and operate a global, high availability infrastructure platform spread across 5 regions with round‑the‑clock usage, supporting our customer success and product development teams to deliver value to our customers. You will also participate in out‑of‑hours on‑call rotas. Champion engineering best practices, including CI/CD, SRE, networking and cloud security — raising the overall bar for quality and reliability. Collaborate and consult with other engineering teams to help guide and influence their cloud architecture and usage of the platform, ensuring their road to production is smooth and pain‑free. Mentor and develop engineers, growing their design and architectural thinking, technical capabilities, and ability to operate at scale. Research, evaluate, and drive adoption of new tools, frameworks, or architectural patterns that improve developer experience, platform resilience, and delivery velocity.

Требования:

You have a deep experience of operating Kubernetes workloads at scale and maintaining a secure, well‑governed cloud environment. You are a strong advocate for clear, maintainable and well‑tested IaC configurations that make changes safe and easy. You’re collaborative and approachable; as much at home sharing your knowledge and experience with team‑mates or advising platform users as you are being knee‑deep in a gnarly helm chart squashing bugs. You have your finger on the pulse; both in terms of industry best‑practices and technologies and also in how our users interact with our platform – identifying pain‑points and needs that can be solved to improve the developer experience. You appreciate the value of a paved road in providing a reliable platform, but also know when rigidity needs to be avoided for the benefit of the user. You strive to automate all the things, reducing manual toil and opportunity for human error. You look forward to collaborating with your team and others in‑person 2 days a week in our London office. Experience designing, building & operating distributed AWS cloud infrastructure, including (but not limited to) networking, IAM, observability & monitoring, security & governance, and maintaining Kubernetes clusters Deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform best practices alongside GitOps deployment setups Proven ability to lead initiatives — from discovery through delivery, solving problems and finding the best solutions that balance efficiency and ease of use. Experience modernising legacy systems and simplifying architecture, reducing cognitive load and making systems easier to reason about, maintain, and evolve over time.

Условия:

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Adoption and fertility leave
• Generous enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Optical benefits 15% combined employee/employer contributions
• Subsidized gym membership
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering
• Charitable matching of employee donations