Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation. Part of our parent company Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life UK has operated in the United Kingdom since 1903. We have hundreds of respected and supported employees committed to doing the right thing for our customers and colleagues. Canada Life UK is transforming to create a more customer-focused business by providing our customers with expertise on financial and tax planning, offering home finance and annuities propositions, and providing collective fund solutions to third party customers. Job Purpose Were looking for an Azure Platform Engineer with strong experience in Kubernetes and an interest in platform abstraction and cloud-native infrastructure patterns. Youll help us design and build shared platform capabilities on Azure that hide complexity from product teams while enforcing security, reliability and governance by default. This role is ideal for an engineer who: Enjoys working with Kubernetes and Azure Thinks in terms of platform APIs, abstractions and self-service Is curious about emerging control plane and infrastructure abstraction approaches Wants to help teams consume infrastructure as a product How the Team Works Youll join a Platform Engineering team focused on building reusable, internal platform services rather than one-off infrastructure. We work using: Kubernetes as a core platform primitive GitOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code DevSecOps and SRE-inspired practices AI-assisted engineering (Copilot, agents, automation) What Youll Do Build and operate Azure-backed platform services exposed through Kubernetes APIs Design abstractions that allow teams to provision infrastructure safely and consistently Work with AKS as a core runtime for platform and workload services Contribute to platform control plane capabilities (e.g. Kubernetes-based or API-driven approaches) Define and manage Azure resources using Terraform, Bicep and declarative approaches - Embed security, governance and policy into platform defaults Support GitOps-driven workflows and CI/CD pipelines Improve observability, reliability and operational readiness Who You Are Essential: Experience in Azure, cloud engineering, DevOps or platform roles Hands-on experience with Kubernetes Infrastructure-as-Code experience Scripting (PowerShell, Bash or Python) CI/CD and Git-based workflows Desirable: Experience with platform abstraction or control plane patterns (e.g. Crossplane, Pulumi, or similar approaches) Kubernetes extension patterns or operators Terraform or Bicep Azure networking, identity and governance GitOps tooling Benefits of working at Canada Life We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package thats regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, youll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development. How we work at Canada Life 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. Thats why we offer a range of training, flexible working and opportunities to grow and develop. Diversity and inclusion 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 were 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. Were happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles should this be a requirement for you.