Senior Platform Engineer

Royal London Mutual Insurance Society; Alderley Edge; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer (Azure DevOps)

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Alderley Park

Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

Closing date: 21st April 2025

We are looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to manage and improve our Azure DevOps CI/CD Platform. The team manages Azure DevOps Services for Development Teams releasing both on-premises 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.
• 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 are 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

• Strong knowledge of Azure DevOps platform is a must.
• Knowledge and experience of using Git and creating CI/CD pipelines for applications in Azure DevOps 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 highly desirable. Other cloud experience (e.g. AWS) is accepted.
• Strong Linux experience is highly desirable.
• Reliable networking experience.
• Package management experience.
• PowerShell or other scripting experience is essential.
• Other 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.