Cloud Platform Engineer

This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who wants to build reliable data platform capability and improve how engineering work gets done. You will help operate and evolve the platform that supports analytics, CRM, financial reporting and machine learning across MONY Group.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the data platform.
• Contribute to the design, delivery and operation of platform infrastructure using infrastructure-as-code, primarily Terraform.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment practices and platform tooling that enable data teams to self-serve safely.
• Work with security, compliance and data protection colleagues to reduce risk and improve data handling practices.
• Build robust, scalable data solutions that support business needs such as CRM, SEO, financial reporting and personalisation.
• Stay close to the business context and apply software engineering practices to solve specific data problems.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, data quality checks and observability so issues are detected and understood quickly.
• Identify repeated or high-friction engineering tasks and turn them into reliable automated or AI-assisted workflows.
• Help shape team practices for coding agents, prompts, local instructions, skills, hooks and tool integrations where they deliver real value.
• Balance speed with security, reviewability and maintainability when introducing AI-assisted delivery patterns.
• Share practical learning through documentation, demos, pairing and show-and-tell sessions.
• Support more junior team members through coaching, code review and clear engineering standards.
• Keep an informed view of the fast-moving AI tooling landscape and recommend adoption where it solves real team problems.

Qualifications

Essential experience and strengths

• Strong software or data engineering fundamentals, including production Python and SQL.
• Experience building, operating or improving cloud-based systems.
• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, version control and automated testing.
• Ability to reason about reliability, security, observability and operational support.
• Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders and communicating clearly.
• Curiosity about AI-assisted engineering and automation, with an interest in applying these tools to practical delivery workflows.

Useful but not essential

• Experience with GCP, AWS or Azure services such as serverless runtimes, networking, data warehouses, streaming systems or managed workflow platforms.
• Experience building or configuring AI agent workflows, custom agents, tool/function calling, MCP servers, local coding-agent instructions, hooks or SDKs.
• Experience with BDD/TDD, design-for-testing, or improving testability in data and platform systems.

Benefits

• Up to 27 holidays + bank holidays.
• Pension up to 6% employer contribution.
• Bonus scheme.
• Digital Doctor on demand.
• Work from anywhere scheme – 2 weeks per year.
• Financial coaching.
• Mental health platform access.

How we’ll invest in you

We’re invested in your development. Expect mentorship, training and opportunities to expand your skill set, including access to your own individual LinkedIn Learning license with access to over 16,000 courses. At MONY Group, we believe in the strength of diversity and see inclusion as a strategic advantage. Our values guide us in creating a workplace where fairness and equity is a reality for all. We’re committed to minimising systemic bias and creating a level playing field for all candidates. Contact us for reasonable accommodations in the application process – no need to disclose your disability or condition, just specify your needs.