Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation. Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers. We are looking for a Platform Engineer with hands-on Azure, Databricks, and IaC experience, to support our transformation and the future growth of the Canada Life UK business. We are on a journey of simplifying our IT estate, removing our legacy systems and delivering innovative solutions through Cloud adoption, AI and expanding our digital services. As a member of the CLUK Product Engineering team, you will be involved in every stage of the product lifecycle from conception, design, implementation, testing, through to operational support. This role would suit someone with a background in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or enterprise data platform support, particularly where Azure, Databricks, Azure Data Factory automation (or equivalent technology), and operational governance are central to the work. This is not a narrow support role or a generic cloud engineering position. The engineer will work across the practical foundations of an enterprise data platform, helping ensure it remains secure, scalable, supportable, well governed, and easy for delivery teams to use. Develop automation scripts for deployment and maintenance of applications Monitor system performance and health; Ensure compliance with all security policies and standards Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, standards, and implementation guidance Helping onboard users, teams, services, and workloads onto the platform. Provide guidance to less experienced Product Engineering team members to help them learn and develop their own skills Application support within a Financial Services context (SaaS, PaaS, Cloud, On-Prem hosted applications) Relevant experience as a Platform or DevOps Engineer working with enterprise data platforms Highly proficient in scripting languages like Powershell, Python, Bash. Azure/AWS/GCP and related services Experience supporting Azure Databricks, Azure Data Factory or a similar technology to govern an enterprise data platform Demonstrates following sound engineering practices, especially utilising automation tools, working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools such as Azure DevOps, Octopus Deploy, Jenkins or GitHub Actions (or similar) Experience with secrets management, secure configuration, and security remediation practices Used to working within Agile frameworks and can coach others to do the same Good understanding of firewalls, private cloud connectivity, DNS, routing, and service integration patterns Microsoft Azure certifications are a plus Experience with monitoring and observability tooling such as Datadog or similar platforms We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that's regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. We want colleagues to have rewarding careers with us so we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces. That's why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop. Diversity and inclusion Building an inclusive workplace with a diverse workforce where everyone can feel they belong and achieve their potential regardless of gender, ethnicity or any other characteristic is a key commitment for us. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.\" We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.
Senior AWS Engineer/Platform Engineer | employer: Canada Life UK
Canada Life UK is an exceptional employer that prioritises the well-being and development of its employees, offering a modern and agile work environment in the heart of the UK. With a strong focus on employee growth opportunities and a welcoming culture, we empower our team to build better futures not only for our customers but also for themselves. Join us to be part of a legacy that has been shaping financial security since 1903, where your contributions truly matter.
