Platform Engineer

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.

With automation at the heart of everything we are doing, you should have a strong hands-on understanding of CI/CD tools, to build secure and reliable applications. We are looking for Azure experience, though strong experience in any cloud is welcome.

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.

Key responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain applications in Cloud and On-prem, through CI/CD pipelines using Terraform and Bicep

Develop automation scripts for deployment and maintenance of applications

Monitor system performance and health; identify opportunities for optimization

Ensure compliance with all security policies and standards

Ensure platform components are reliable, maintainable, and safe to promote into production

Investigate platform issues, security findings, and technical debt items, then drive them to resolution

Participate in technical discussions and provide recommendations for improvements

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

Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We care about doing the right thing for our people, customers and community and helping others to build better futures. Our blueprint behaviours shape and influence how we work, and are central to the relationships we have with others. Every day we are encouraged to be more curious, own the outcome, face into things together and find a way forward.

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.

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. We are proud of the progress we’re making in DEI, and we continue for it to be a significant focus.

“At Canada Life we believe in the power of great people from different backgrounds, experiences and perspectives coming together to build better futures. Emerging talent is crucial to our growth and creating an environment that continues to inspire us all.” Nick Harding, Chief People Officer, Canada Life UK

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We’re happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.