Senior Platform Engineer: Automate, Secure & Scale DevTools

107632 Capital Markets Operations; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

12x salary life assurance

Career breaks

Income protection

3x volunteering days

Job summary

Standard Life in the UK is seeking a senior hands-on Platform Engineer to shape and operate the orchestration and developer platform solutions for Pensions & Savings technology services.

You will lead delivery across tooling, automation and reusable workflows—including GitHub, GitHub Copilot, developer portals, artefact and container management, observability and cloud integration—while partnering with multiple teams to provide secure, governed experiences.

Qualifications

• Hands-on platform engineering, DevOps or developer tooling experience with automation and reusable workflows.
• Practical experience with GitHub, CI/CD and secure development workflows.
• Security-first approach to operating enterprise tooling, IAM, secrets and auditability.
• Familiar with cloud environments, artefact and container management, observability and tooling such as Jira/Confluence.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate and improve secure, reliable internal developer platform capabilities for Pensions & Savings.
• Create golden paths and automated onboarding journeys for workloads and tools.
• Administer GitHub/GitHub Copilot onboarding, access controls and workflows.
• Develop automation using GitHub Actions, APIs, IaC and scripting.
• Support artefact and container management with build/delivery integrations.
• Contribute to developer portals and self-service capabilities for discoverability and ownership.
• Embed security, governance and observability into platform services and onboarding.
• Collaborate with application, architecture, security, risk and operations teams to improve tooling via documentation and enablement.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps

Developer tooling

GitHub

CI/CD

Security-first

Observability

Automation

Jira

Confluence

Tools

GitHub

GitHub Copilot

CLI/APIs

Job description

Standard Life in the UK is seeking a senior hands-on Platform Engineer to shape and operate the orchestration and developer platform solutions for Pensions & Savings technology services.

You will lead delivery across tooling, automation and reusable workflows—including GitHub, GitHub Copilot, developer portals, artefact and container management, observability and cloud integration—while partnering with multiple teams to provide secure, governed experiences.