Senior IT Systems Engineer — Cloud, IaC & Platform Mastery

Pension Insurance Corporation; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical insurance

28 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

Job summary

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) is seeking a Principal IT Systems Engineer to lead the IT Operations and Engineering team in London. The role combines deep infrastructure expertise with cloud and platform engineering, acting as a trusted technical authority across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive platform resilience and guide automation-first practices, influencing standards and handling complex incidents.

Qualifications

• Extensive enterprise infrastructure and platform engineering experience.
• Azure cloud expertise and modern cloud tech.
• Automation and IaC with Terraform, PowerShell, Ansible.
• Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID knowledge.
• CI/CD, observability and platform engineering.
• 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.

Job description

Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) is seeking a Principal IT Systems Engineer to lead the IT Operations and Engineering team in London. The role combines deep infrastructure expertise with cloud and platform engineering, acting as a trusted technical authority across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will mentor engineers, drive platform resilience and guide automation-first practices, influencing standards and handling complex incidents.