Senior Platform Engineer
Hybrid
Macclesfield, United Kingdom
Full Time
28-02-2025
Job Specifications
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions, and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services. Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Alderley Park
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
Closing date: 14th March 2025
We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to manage and imrpvoe our Azure DevOps CI/CD Platform. The team manages Azure DevOps Services for Development Teams releasing both on-preimses and Cloud (Azure), managing day-to-day operations, ensuring the platform remains secure and compliant, supporting teams through service request and incident processes, and providing enabling services and engineering accelerators. The Senior Platform Engineer applies DevOps principles and practices to the management of the platform.
About The Role
Help manage Royal London’s Azure DevOps Platform tenant – ensuring it remains highly available and secure.
Support teams to develop and deploy their solutions as required, including enablement assignments working directly with Product Teams to develop, enhance or maintain their CI/CD Pipelines and Agent Images.
Design and deliver engineering accelerators required by Product Teams to maintain their Application Lifecycle Management.
Develop automation for all aspects of platform service management including patching, upgrades and changes.
Applying DevOps principles and tools, exploiting cloud, container, and infrastructure-as-code capabilities to help improve the automated provision, test, and operation of the platform technologies and services in your area.
Contributes and leads the ongoing development and maturity of continuous deployment and continuous delivery services (CI/CD), implementing and improving pipelines, managing complexity, and ensuring integrity, security, and reliability of pipeline services.
Contribute to the ongoing maintenance and management of knowledge information, technical communities, documentation, and standards.
Create reusable modules, that is scalable and easily maintainable for multiple development teams and multiple environments. Ensuring best practice is considered and implemented.
Identifies risks and issues; champions effective and timely resolution with thorough Root Cause Analysis performed and impacts fully understood.
Integrate platforms with operational and configuration automation tooling, pipelines, and playbooks to continuously improve service reliability, security, and management.
About You
Azure DevOps using Git, CI/CD is a must. Other pipeline and CI/CD tooling experience is desirable but not necessary.
Terraform experience or other infrastructure as code tools that align to the platform is desirable.
Azure Cloud experience is essential. Other cloud experience (e.g. AWS) is accepted.
Strong Windows experience or strong Linux experience.
Reliable networking experience.
Package management experience.
PowerShell or other scripting experience is essential.
Desirable skills include Bicep, Data Factory / Function Apps, Azure SQL server, Microsoft .NET, Python.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance. You can see all our benefits here - Our Benefits
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an Inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.
About the Company
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company. Proudly customer owned since 1861.* Royal London is a purpose-driven mutual. Our Purpose, ‘Protecting today, investing in tomorrow. Together we are mutually responsible’, defines the impact we want to have. It shapes what we do on behalf of our members and customers, financial advisers, our colleagues and the communities in which we operate. Our People Promise is our collective commitment that our workplace will be inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fu... Know more
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