Platform Engineer
Department: DevOps & Infrastructure
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: London
Reporting To: Keith Bartlett
Description
The role of Platform Engineer is wide ranging, including infrastructure centric aspects of Cloud Architecture and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) through to optimising the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using techniques such as Lean and BDD.
Key to driving our technology strategy forwards you will implement practices and approaches that drive throughput and enable the business to test new products, pricing & capabilities rapidly out in the marketplace.
About the role
As a member of the Platform Development team, you will build the tools that evolve our Azure cloud infrastructure in a safe, reliable, automated and cost-effective manner enabling our proprietary technology development teams to have the best possible development experience.
1. Provide expertise and input into the design and implementation of LAC automation to serve the needs of our application hosting, with particular focus on consistency, security and developer enablement.
2. Participate in planning efforts with stakeholders and IT department, working as part of a small team and successfully manage your own tasks according to the larger needs of the business.
3. Help define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work.
4. On failure events, work on fixing the issues and communicating with senior members of the team.
About you
The ideal candidate for this role will:
1. Have enterprise experience of Azure and excellent understanding of SDLC best practices, infrastructure as Code/Desired State Configuration - Terraform, Ansible, etc.
2. An advanced level of experience using command line/scripting tools such as Azure CLI, Bash and PowerShell.
3. An understanding of DevOps centric concepts and Azure Platform Engineering particularly in relation to automation and YAML pipelines.
Core Values
Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
Were never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to make things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we dont take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
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