Associate Platform Engineer

hiscox; Lisboa; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Hiscox Re is seeking a Platform Engineer to contribute to reliable, automated software delivery across Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments. You will support CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and security-by-design principles in a cross-functional squad.

You will collaborate with software and data engineers to standardize templates and components, driving platform maturity and operational excellence in a fast-paced, forward-thinking organization.

Qualifikationen

• Experience with cloud-native services and containerized systems.
• Understanding of data platforms, orchestration, warehouses and lakehouses.
• Practical experience with CI/CD tooling (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Puppet).
• Experience in DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or operational support.
• Working knowledge of Terraform, ARM/Bicep/YAML, and version control/state management.
• Hands-on experience with Azure, GCP, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Awareness of secure engineering practices and related testing approaches (SAST/DAST).
• Experience with monitoring/logging tools (New Relic, ELK).
• Interest in adopting new techniques and tools to improve delivery.

Aufgaben

• Pipeline Support: maintain and secure CI/CD pipelines for cloud deployments.
• IaC: automate cloud and on-prem infrastructure with Terraform/Ansible.
• DevOps culture: promote DevOps practices within squads.
• Reliability & Monitoring: build and maintain monitoring and alerting across platforms.
• Incident Management: participate in RCA activities and document findings.

Kenntnisse

Platform knowledge

Data services

CI/CD tooling

DevOps/SRE experience

IaC

Cloud exposure

Security mindset

Monitoring tools

Future looking

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Ansible

Jobbeschreibung

Job Type: Permanent

Build a brilliant future with Hiscox

Role Overview

The Platform Engineer is a hands‑on technical role, supporting the reliability, security, and automation of our software delivery pipelines and hybrid cloud infrastructure.

This role combines the disciplines of DevOps (Automation & CI/CD) and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE). Working closely with tech squad members (i.e. software and data engineers, and SDETs), you will help ensure our applications are secure by design, available, performant, and deployed through automated pipelines, using infrastructure‑as‑code principles across Azure and GCP environments and, where appropriate, on‑premises too.

You will support other engineers to self‑serve where possible by contributing to reusable templates, designs and components, and by sharing knowledge that helps improve platform engineering practices across the squad.

About Hiscox Re

Hiscox Re is located in Bermuda and London and underwrites reinsurance risks from around the world on behalf of our own and other people's capital. The team of over 100 smart, enthusiastic individuals are committed to providing top quality service to brokers and clients across a broad range of reinsurance products. Our approach is simple; match the best underwriting risk against globally diversified capital. Our proactive, product‑led underwriting approach is complemented by a commitment to world class service and purpose‑built analytics and systems. We know our people are our biggest asset so finding and retaining the best talent is critical to achieving our vision.

If you are a technology‑focused engineer looking to build your platform engineering skills and contribute to reliable, automated software delivery, we invite you to apply for the position of Platform Engineer at Hiscox Re. Join our team and help us continue improving DevOps maturity in a dynamic, forward‑thinking organization.

Candidate Profile

The successful candidate will be a motivated, practical, and curious engineer with a strong interest in automation and operational excellence. You should have a good grounding in platform engineering concepts and be keen to develop your skills across infrastructure automation, CI/CD, cloud services, monitoring, and secure delivery practices. You will be comfortable working as part of a cross‑functional team, learning from others, and contributing to continuous improvement within the squad.

Main experience required is:

• Platform Knowledge: Good awareness of cloud‑native services and containerized systems, with some practical exposure.
• Data services: An understanding of data platforms, orchestration, warehouses, data lakes and lakehouses.
• CI/CD Tooling: Practical experience working with Azure DevOps pipelines or similar tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Puppet), with support from more experienced engineers where needed.
• DevOps/SRE Experience: Some experience involving DevOps, platform engineering, infrastructure, or operational support responsibilities.
• IaC Experience: Working knowledge of Infrastructure‑as‑Code tools such as Terraform , Azure Resource Manager (ARM) Templates, Bicep or YAML, with an understanding of version control and state management concepts.
• Cloud Exposure: Hands‑on experience of working with Azure, GCP or hybrid cloud environments.
• Security Mindset: Awareness of secure engineering practices, risk concepts, and application security testing approaches such as SAST and DAST.
• Monitoring Tools: Experience using monitoring and logging tools such as New Relic, ELK or similar, with an understanding of how alerts, dashboards, and cloud cost visibility help improve reliability and efficiency.
• Future Looking: You are interested, curious and aware of new techniques and tools that can improve the delivery of quality solutions, and are willing to learn, experiment and adopt these where appropriate.

Key Responsibilities

1. Automation, CI/CD, and DevOps Maturity

• Pipeline Support: Help to create, maintain, and secure CI/CD pipelines for publishing code to cloud environments (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions), supporting fast, frequent, automated, and reliable deployments.
• Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Contribute to the automation of cloud and on‑premise infrastructure setup and maintenance within your value stream, using tools like Terraform and Ansible to help keep environments consistent.
• DevOps Culture: Support the adoption of DevOps principles and culture within squads, contributing ideas and helping improve automation and ways of working.

2. Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) & Operational Excellence

• Reliability & Monitoring: Help build and maintain monitoring, alerting, and logging at platform, application and data levels, supporting teams to identify issues and understand service availability and performance.
• Incident Management: Participate in Incident Management, Problem Resolution, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) activities, helping investigate issues, document findings, and implement