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Platform Engineer, Insurance Consulting
XPS Group · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomFull timeHybrid
Remuneration
Competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus, 25 days' holiday with buy/sell flexibility, pension matching, healthcare plans, life assurance, retailer discounts, flexible benefits, employee assistance, digital GP service, paid volunteer days, and referral bonuses.
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
No visa sponsorship
XPS Group is not able to provide sponsorship to employees.
Job summary
Build and operate secure, reliable Azure and AWS cloud platforms for insurance and financial services workloads, using infrastructure as code, DevOps, and automation. The role owns platform delivery from requirements and design through release and handover, including CI/CD, networking, identity, secrets management, monitoring, and troubleshooting across multiple client workloads.
Benefits
Annual discretionary bonus25 days' holiday with buy/sell flexibilityPension matchingHealthcare plansLife assuranceRetailer discountsFlexible benefits schemeEmployee assistanceDigital GP servicePaid volunteer daysReferral bonuses
Qualifications
- Financial services experience and sound security, confidentiality, and controlled-change practices.
- Hands-on Azure and AWS experience, including networking, connectivity, identity, and security.
- Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or equivalent, including automated testing.
- Scripting experience with Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
- CI/CD experience with Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or equivalent, including build, test, and deployment pipelines.
- Experience with Git peer review, release approvals, environment promotion, and rollback.
- Experience managing secure access, secrets, monitoring, troubleshooting, and changing client priorities.
- Recognised, relevant Azure or AWS cloud certification; certification in either cloud is sufficient.
- Effective use of AI engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Codex, or Claude Code.
- Insurance industry experience, consulting experience, containers, or full-stack application development are desirable.
Responsibilities
- Provision and maintain reusable Azure and AWS infrastructure as code.
- Build and improve CI/CD pipelines with testing, release controls, environment promotion, and rollback.
- Own platform delivery from requirements and design through implementation, release, and handover.
- Implement networking, connectivity, identity, secure access, and secrets management.
- Monitor platforms and troubleshoot issues.
- Maintain tests, documentation, and runbooks.
Skills
AWSAzureAzure DevOpsBashBicepCheckovCloudFormationGitGitHubGitHub ActionsPowerShellPythonTerraformDocker
Certifications
Recognised, relevant Azure or AWS cloud certification
Degrees
Relevant computing degree (desirable)
Languages
PythonPowerShellBash
Industry
Financial servicesInsurance
Security clearance
DBS disclosure checkCredit check
Relocation
No