Senior Cloud Engineer - Python Linux AWS in London

The Senior Cloud Engineer plays a critical role in maintaining, optimising, and evolving PL Re’s cloud‑hosted application workloads, with a primary focus on AWS. The role sits at the intersection of cloud architecture, SRE, security, and developer experience, helping to raise the overall standard of cloud usage across PL Re.

While experience in platform provisioning is required, this role does not focus on building or owning the core platform itself, but instead on operating, improving, and enabling solutions running on it in line with enterprise standards, Cloud Shared Services and governance expectations.

• Operate and evolve a global AWS application environment, supporting workloads across multiple regions within local business hours, and participating in out‑of‑hours on‑call rotas as required.
• Drive improvements in reliability, resilience, performance, and efficiency through strong SRE practices.
• Own and enhance observability and monitoring, ensuring meaningful alerting, clear operational dashboards, and rapid diagnosis of incidents.
• Raise the bar for operational maturity, including incident management, root‑cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with Information Security and Enterprise Architecture to ensure alignment with PL Re and Pacific Life standards.
• Collaborate with application and engineering teams to guide and influence cloud architecture decisions, ensuring a smooth, low‑friction path to production.
• Contribute to the definition of cloud design patterns, policies, and standards, feeding into wider platform strategy and governance.
• Potentially take on line or technical leadership responsibilities as the platform engineering capability matures working with an Enterprise wide leadership and team structure.

Extensive experience designing, building, and operating distributed AWS environments, including networking, IAM, security, observability, and monitoring. Hands‑on expertise in SRE and operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, reliability improvement, and incident response. Experience operating and supporting Kubernetes‑based workloads in AWS. Experience supporting data, analytics, or modelling workloads in cloud environments. Exposure to financial services, insurance, underwriting, or actuarial technology environments. Clear, pragmatic communicator able to work effectively with engineers, architects, and risk stakeholders.

Stable, secure, and well‑operated AWS application workloads aligned to PL Re standards. Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes. Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.

Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
• Generous enhanced parental leave
• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
• Savings & Retirement
• Subsidized gym membership
• Access to Employee Assistance Program
• Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• Time off for volunteering

We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities.