Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We operate as a modern, agile, and welcoming organisation within Great‑West Lifeco, serving the United Kingdom since 1903.
Job Purpose
Lead Azure Platform Engineer – responsible for designing, building and running Azure platform services. This hands‑on technical leadership role combines deep engineering expertise with mentoring, standards‑setting and influence across teams.
What You’ll Do
* Design, build and evolve Azure platform services used across delivery teams.
* Lead the implementation of secure, scalable and resilient Azure environments.
* Write code, review pull requests and deploy 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.
* Participate 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.
Who You Are
Essential Experience & Skills
* 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.
* AI‑first mindset focused on skills development for SRE.
Desirable Experience
* 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.
Benefits
Competitive salary and benefits package, including a generous pension and bonus scheme, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. Additional benefits and support services support personal and professional development.
Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to 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. We are proud of our progress in DEI and continue to make it a significant focus.
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