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Lead Azure Platform Engineer
£42,000 - 82,000
Canada Life UK
High Street 54-56, Northaw
£42,000 - 82,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong experience as a cloud, platform or DevOps engineer.
- Deep knowledge of Microsoft Azure and core platform services.
- Proven experience delivering Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform and/or Bicep).
- Strong scripting skills (PowerShell, Bash and/or Python).
- Experience building or operating CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- An AI first mindset focused on skills development for SRE.
Desirable:
- Azure networking and security architecture experience.
- Container platforms (Docker, AKS).
- Cloud governance, cost management (FinOps) or security practices.
- Azure DevOps and/or GitHub enterprise environments.
- Cross-plane experience.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and evolve Azure platform services used across delivery teams.
- Lead the implementation of secure, scalable and resilient Azure environments.
- Be hands-on with development work: writing code, reviewing pull requests and deploying to production.
- Act as a technical authority within the platform and delivery ecosystem.
- Own and evolve Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform and/or Bicep.
- Drive automation that removes toil, improves reliability and accelerates delivery.
- Leverage GitHub Copilot and AI-assisted tooling to increase productivity and quality.
- Champion consistent patterns for networking, identity, security and landing zones.
- Lead the development of CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure delivery.
- Promote strong observability, monitoring and alerting practices.
- Take part in incident response, root cause analysis and platform stability improvements.
- Balance build-and-run responsibilities with a focus on long-term platform health.
- Set and maintain engineering standards, guardrails and best practices.
- Mentor engineers through pairing, code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions.
- Proactively identify technical debt and lead initiatives to address it.
- Influence tooling, ways of working and adoption of new technologies across teams.
Description
At Canada Life UK, we look after the retirement, investment, and protection needs of individuals, families, and companies. We are a modern, agile, and welcoming organization, and as part of Great-West Lifeco, we have been operating in the United Kingdom since 1903. We recognize and reward our people with a competitive salary and benefits package, including a generous pension and bonus scheme, private medical insurance, and personal development opportunities. Our unique culture emphasizes curiosity, collaboration, and inclusivity, and we strongly prioritize building a diverse workforce. We are committed to flexible working arrangements to accommodate different work-life responsibilities.
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