Azure Platform Engineer

The Platform Engineer is responsible for continued enhancement, delivery, and support of Brit’s Azure environment as the business moves forwards with its digital transformation. We are seeking a highly resourceful and independent professional to support the divestiture of Ki-Insurance. The ideal candidate will possess strong troubleshooting skills, experience with Windows Server OS and networking. They will have the ability to work autonomously as well as collaboratively within a dynamic project team. This role requires adaptability, initiative, and a problem-solving mindset to navigate complex challenges in a fast-paced environment

Principal Accountabilities:

• Development and support of Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery processes, using Azure DevOps, and aligned to best practice.
• Management and use of existing as well as development of new Infrastructure-as-Code, using Terraform, building pipelines and testable secure infrastructure for deploying applications in the cloud.
• Work as part of a project team to assist in the copy / migration of azure based applications. Working for Brit in assisting the Ki migration team.
• Resolve problems at their root with simple and repeatable solutions.
• Provide guidance to the wider Platform, Software, and Data Engineering teams.
• Consideration of TCO of deployed solutions, and good cost management of the platform.
• Develop tools and processes that drive and improve customer experience through automation.
• Produce design documentation of Cloud solutions and for services being deployed in Azure.
• Work with Brit’s Customers, and product & engineering teams to build long-term solutions.
• Collaborate and build tools that enable teams to operate safely at high speed and wide scale

Regulatory Conduct Rules:

• Act with integrity.
• Act with due skill, care, and diligence.
• Be open and co-operative with Lloyd’s, the FCA, the PRA, and other regulators.
• Pay due regard to the interests of customers and treat them fairly.
• Observe proper standards of market conduct.

Education, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills, and Experience

• Ability to troubleshoot and problem solve Azure related issues independently.
• Familiarity with Windows Server OS (Linux experience beneficial)
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to converse directly with our business.
• Experience with programming and scripting languages especially PowerShell, Terraform, YAML and Ansible.
• CI tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions.
• Pipeline builds, release packaging and artefact management.
• Enterprise-wide agile methodologies and practices.
• Configuration management software like Ansible or PowerShell DSC.
• Developing Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, ARM, Ansible.
• Implementing monitoring and fail over strategies.
• An understanding of static and dynamic security testing tools good understanding of Security and systems best practices.
• Bachelor's Degree or higher in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience