Senior Cloud & Platform Engineer - Infra, IaC, Azure

LGBT Great; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

Generous pension scheme

28 days annual leave

Job summary

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) is seeking a Principal IT Systems Engineer to lead and shape enterprise platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments. You will act as a trusted technical authority, driving design, resilience and automation while mentoring engineers and guiding platform standards.

The role demands deep infrastructure expertise with cloud capabilities and strong stakeholder management in a complex enterprise setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in Infrastructure, Systems or Platform Engineering in a complex enterprise environment.
• Strong expertise in Azure and modern cloud technologies.
• Advanced automation and Infrastructure as Code skills, including Terraform, PowerShell and Ansible.
• Deep knowledge of Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Strong understanding of platform engineering, CI/CD and observability.
• Experience influencing technical direction and engineering standards.
• Broad infrastructure knowledge across Windows, Linux, networking and enterprise platforms.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical authority and escalation point across infrastructure, cloud, identity and platform services.
• Provide technical leadership and deputise for the IT Systems Team Manager when required.
• Drive the design, resilience and continuous improvement of on‑premises and cloud platforms.
• Lead root cause analysis and resolution of complex technical issues and major incidents.
• Influence engineering standards, architecture decisions and platform best practices.
• Develop automation, Infrastructure as Code and reusable platform capabilities.
• Provide technical oversight of third‑party suppliers and solutions.
• Mentor engineers and champion secure, resilient and automation‑first ways of working.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

PowerShell

Ansible

Active Directory

Entra ID

CI/CD

Observability

Windows

Linux

Networking

Stakeholder management

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Intune

SCCM

Job description

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) is seeking a Principal IT Systems Engineer to lead and shape enterprise platforms across on‑premises and cloud environments. You will act as a trusted technical authority, driving design, resilience and automation while mentoring engineers and guiding platform standards.

The role demands deep infrastructure expertise with cloud capabilities and strong stakeholder management in a complex enterprise setting.