Senior Platform Engineer Staines-upon-Thames in Salford

Primary location: Salford (M50 3SP) or Staines (TW18 3DZ) or London (EC2R 7HJ). Flexible / Hybrid working options. Permanent position with a salary negotiable depending on experience & location, plus a 10% bonus and fantastic benefits. Full time, 37.5 hours.

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns. At Bupa, we’re passionate about technology. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind, you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on their lives. Right from the start, you’ll become part of our digital & data strategy, joining us on our journey and developing yourself along the way.

Join our team as a Senior Platform Engineer, where you’ll contribute to the design and operation of a scalable, secure enterprise data platform supporting advanced analytics and business intelligence in a healthcare and insurance setting. You’ll work with high autonomy, mentor junior engineers, and drive technical excellence while ensuring compliance and performance. This is a key role in shaping a robust, automated data platform that powers better patient care and smarter insurance services.

Please note: this is a Platform Engineering role rather than a Data Engineering position. We welcome applications from data engineers who also bring strong platform engineering experience – for example, working with IaC, Terraform, or similar tooling.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Contribute to the design and delivery of robust, automated, and scalable Azure and Snowflake data platform components.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, ensuring consistency and reusability across environments.
• Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions to support rapid, reliable deployments.
• Implement observability practices including logging, metrics, and alerting using observability tools.
• Collaborate with the Lead Engineer and Architects to align implementation with platform standards and patterns.
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to mid-level engineers, promoting best practices in automation and monitoring.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role:

• Extensive experience in platform engineering, with a strong emphasis on Azure-based data solutions.
• Expert-level knowledge of Azure and/or Snowflake services, including Data Factory, Data Lake, Azure ML, and Power BI/Fabric.
• Proven experience with infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and building CI/CD pipelines via Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Strong grasp of observability practices, including logging, metrics, alerting, and performance optimization.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, with experience applying secure-by-design principles in Azure and/or Snowflake (e.g., network isolation, IAM, data protection).
• Proficiency in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Bash, or Python.
• Collaborative mindset, with a proven track record of working effectively across engineering, data science, and business teams.
• Clear communicator, capable of documenting technical designs, contributing to platform standards, and presenting solutions to stakeholders.
• Leadership experience, including mentoring junior engineers and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and knowledge sharing – highly desirable.

Benefits:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance.
• Annual performance-based bonus.
• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available.
• Various other benefits and online discounts.

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.