Azure Platform Engineer

Job Purpose

We're looking for an Azure Platform Engineer with strong experience in Kubernetes and an interest in platform abstraction and cloud-native infrastructure patterns. You'll 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

You'll 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 You'll 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

Essential: Who You Are

• 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 that is regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you'll receive a competitive salary, a comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We also offer 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. We encourage curiosity, ownership, teamwork and a proactive mindset. We invest in development, flexible working and opportunities to grow.

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 we're making in DEI and continue to make it a significant focus.

We appreciate that everyone has different work and life responsibilities. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements, including part time, for any of our roles if this is a requirement.

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